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Restaurant Review: Celebrating 30 Years of Java Jo’s
Ryan and Chad Corbin talk coffee, COVID and comradery.
Salt Lake City has always had a funny proclivity for being about 10 to 15 years behind its more cosmopolitan cousins like Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Seattle. Thirty years ago, for example, a drive-up coffee concept like Java Jo’s was considered an innovation on the Wasatch Front.
While larger brands like Starbucks were scoffing at the Utah market and its high concentration of non-coffee drinkers back in the late 1990s, brothers and young entrepreneurs Ryan and Chad Corbin went all in on their first coffee shop.
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