SNAPPED: Lucky Ones serves coffee at Park City Library for Thanksgiving ‘Pie Breakfast’

Photo: Michele Roepke // TownLift

PARK CITY, Utah — The Lucky Ones Coffee Shop, located at the Park City Library, employs and empowers individuals with disabilities. They are the largest employer of neurodiverse community members in town.

Once again this year, on Thanksgiving morning, the Shop hosted ‘Pie Breakfast’, where invited guests enjoyed homemade, donated pies while dogs ran at the adjacent dog park and children sledded down the hillside.

Coffee counter orders came in fast, but nothing that the omnipresent Haerter Family; Chris, Muggins, Natalie, Rachael and C.J., along with all their coffee-making colleagues couldn’t handle.

Lucky Ones Community Engagement Manager Allison Williams told TownLift, “This is an amazing event, it’s wild to have our shop packed with people eating pie at nine o’clock in the morning, we wouldn’t have it any other way.” She continued, “We’re thankful to have so much kind support, and we’re so happy to be here and celebrating Thanksgiving with our community.”

Their ultimate goal is to employ as many people as possible at Lucky Ones year round. As a small business, they rely on donations as well as the success of the coffee shop to have the funds to continue to have a powerful impact within the community. Investment in Lucky Ones Coffee could provide another job opportunity.

Click here to learn more about the option to donate to Lucky Ones.

The annual Pie Breakfast gathering is, among countless reasons for folks ages two to 92 to catch up with friends, a sort of one-stop-shop for local teens returning from college for Thanksgiving Break, often on their way to ski for the afternoon.

All photos: TownLift // Michele Roepke

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