SEPTEMBER, 2021
Larry Hardin and Maureen Hawthorne dreamed up the Drunken Monkey Coffee Bar fourteen years ago.
When Maureen moved from Minnesota to Orlando at 25, she’d noticed there were hardly any coffee shops in Central Florida. For years she’d had it in her head that there needed to be more Orlando coffee shops, so when her boyfriend Larry got laid off from his job of 20 years as a computer programmer, the duo decided to open their own.
The couple had also noticed another need in Central Florida while eating and drinking in Orlando together: places that cater to different diets. Larry was vegetarian and Maureen was not, so when they cooked up the food and beverage menu at Drunken Monkey they made sure to have options for everyone.
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