Crowdfunding campaign launched for Raleigh’s first Cat Cafe
A Raleigh couple has launched a crowdfunding campaign to open the city’s first cat cafe. Sarah Newton and Arthur Hailey seeking $28,800 to open Purr Cup Cafe. “It is as if you had a coffee shop and made a room within that coffee shop that is a cat lounge,” Newton told WRAL in March. Cat cafes originated in Taiwan in the late 1990s as a way for people to enjoy hot beverages and interact with cats. Patrons can sit and drink beverages while looking at the cats in the opposite room or pay to reserve time in the cat...
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