Coffee Shops—Big Business in DC
Washington, DC, with a workforce of just over 375,000 people, now boasts over 400 coffee shops, which employ over 5,500 locals. The related network of local businesses supporting the shops—coffee wholesalers, coffee importers, equipment producers and distributors, dairy, sweetener, bakery, and flavoring producers and distributors—employs about 12,000 people. Coffee is big business in DC. Since…
Keep readingIn this space, The Aymat Weekly will feature the news articles written by the fictional character, Marsano Aymat, the protagonist of the Marsano Aymat Mystery Series written by Matt Mystes.
Marsano Aymat is a freelance writer who owns and publishes The Aymat Weekly, a hyper-local news website covering the goings-on of his neighborhood, The Twins, in Washington, DC.
Mars’ small, close-knit group of family and friends are ever-present in his life, and they all live in The Twins. Always on the beat for the latest neighborhood news, Mars is periodically prodded away from his keyboard to assist a The Twins resident in need—invariably the genesis of his amateur detective undertakings.
Nevertheless, the journalist always completes his assignments, and on these pages, he will publish the fruits of his freelance work.
Mars is a master at using a slingshot and in the two-picture website icon his slingshot is aimed at a picture of Washington DC, where The Twins are located. In short, he is aiming at his community– symbolically zeroing in to target the local news of the day.