Happy Day Café features specialty coffee, seasonal drinks

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MEDWAY—Offering a wide variety of specialty drinks, from coffee and tea to lemonade, snow cones, and slushies, the Happy Day Café coffee truck has become a well-known destination for coffee and conversation in Medway.

“I really love my customers,” Happy Day Café owner Amie Charles said. “That’s one of the best parts of my job; I love seeing people and them coming out and talking to me over coffee.”

Located in the parking lot at Copey’s Butcher Shop on Gerlaugh Road, Happy Day Café is no ordinary coffee shop. The new coffee truck offers a unique experience that is very different than traditional brick-and-mortar shops,

“Customers can text their order, their name, and what time they want to pick-up, and I can have it ready,” Charles said. “They can even drive through instead of getting out of their car, like when it gets colder. They can just drive up and pay, and I’ll have their order ready.”

Happy Day Café specializes in coffee, tea and other specialty drinks, ranging from lemonade to snow cones and slushies. The coffee truck is open from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, and closed on Sundays and Mondays.

“We’ve got seasonal drinks,” Charles said. “We’ve got a s’mores (drink) that’s really popular and pumpkin drinks; we’ve got an amazing Mexican hot chocolate.”

“On Wednesdays, I do cinnamon rolls that I make,” she said. “On Fridays, I have other small businesses that are around our area bring stuff out, and I sell it for them for a really small fee.”

Originally from Englewood, Charles decided to open the Happy Day Café last summer, after previously working on other food trucks. She has also worked at Copey’s Butcher Shop for the last three years.

“Over here in Medway we don’t have any coffee shops,” she said, “so I thought you know what, I’m going to give it a try.”

“I lived in Medway for ten years,” Charles said. “I actually had my opening at Copey’s Butcher Shop because I work there.”

Charles designed and built the Happy Day Café truck herself, from a pop-up camper.

“I just wanted to make a way to make a decent living with my kids, and everything,” she said. “I saw this pop-up camper, and I said this would be perfect.”

“I’m a crafty kind of person, so I bought it and just rebuilt-it and made a food truck,” Charles said. “I did everything but the electrical and the plumbing.”

More information can be found online through the Happy Day Café Facebook page.