As frequent customers of the Green Cup Café, Robert Podgorski and his girlfriend, Jennifer Carbajal, used to joke with the owner that they’d be interested if she ever wanted to sell the business. When they rode their bikes by at the start of the pandemic and saw a sign saying the downtown Fort Myers café was closed for business, the time had come to put their words into action.
The two reopened Green Cup Café later in 2020, adding more vegan food options to the menu of smoothies and acai bowls. It was a challenging time to start a business venture, but it came with benefits.