Belmont’s Melanie McIntyre knows she’s got a lot on the line.
The 41-year-old said she pressed pause on her marketing career earlier this year in the hopes of bringing to life a perky little coffee shop venture in Belmont she named The Wandering Cup
Called The Wandering Cup, it launched last week inside the same space that houses A Little Bit of Art, at 900 South Fork Village Drive, Suite G2.
For McIntyre, it’s a chance to realize a long held dream of doing her own thing and going her own way.
If she’s being honest though, she said pitching aside a stable career in the middle of a pandemic is also just a bit terrifying. Before becoming co-owner and operator of The Wandering Cup, she’d spent nearly a decade with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Charlotte and had made friends she didn’t want to say goodbye to.
“That regular income, benefits and security? That’s gone,” McIntyre said last week. “Several people have told me, ‘You’re opening a business in the middle of…
