Dive summary:

• When customers drive up to most transfer stations they are confronted with the smell of garbage but at the Talkeetna Refuse in Anchorage, Ala., customers are greeted with the smell of coffee coming from a coffee shop the owner built on the other side of the building.
• The owner, Bill Stearns, opened the beverage bar after an administrative assistant who had restaurant experience suggested it to him.
• The coffee bar gets decent business, possibly enough to stand on its own, for now though, it just stays on the backside of the transfer station where workers ask “would you like coffee with that? and to please pull through to the next window.

From the article:

Sterns calls Brown Bear Espresso, the name of the business, another profit center for his company. It's only open two days a week because that's when a part-time employee who runs the shop and does office work is on duty.

Small signs are placed out by the road on Mondays and Fridays to alert passing motorists that it's an espresso day.

"It's as much for in-house as it is for external customers. We employ about 28 people between the two businesses. They know they can't find any better beverage in the area," Stearns said. ...