Olivia from the Coffee Milano Cafe
Appearances
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: The cafe spreading the joy of dance
We love like interacting with our customers and like knowing everybody's name and making everyone feel special. And at first it probably took about an hour for the first person to come in dancing. And then once I think once one person did it, then other people were like, oh, what is what's going on?
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: The cafe spreading the joy of dance
Yes, yes, yes. It's insane. I with my boss and I was when I got 4000 views that morning. I sent him a screenshot and I was like shocked that it had 4,000 views. So the fact now that it's now on TikTok, it's at, I think, 8.2 million. And it's crazy. And I think that it's like people love things that are making other people happy and just spreading joy.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: The cafe spreading the joy of dance
And I don't think it's about $3 coffee for free. I think it's just the fact that we are letting people express themselves properly.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: The cafe spreading the joy of dance
Oh, yeah. So the first person in the video is actually my sister during the moonwalk. And she did not expect that this was going to go viral at all. And she's highly embarrassed that she took her shoes off the moonwalk. And now 8 million people saw that, um,
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: The cafe spreading the joy of dance
and then we a lot of the other ones were regulars but yeah i love all the other like the different moves that we can see and how different people from different generations dance as well i thought it's cool to see people were inspiring other people to dance for sure um like i know when the group of girls came in and they were all dancing um one gentleman was saw them outside and was like come on in and start dancing and he got them going and then they came in dancing
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: The cafe spreading the joy of dance
Let's get people dancing again and just be joyous because dancing is good for the soul and it makes people happy.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: The cafe spreading the joy of dance
Yes, everyone is smiling. And that's all that we really wanted was to, you know, make our regulars happy and keep spreading joy.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: The cafe spreading the joy of dance
Yeah, so we actually were talking about that. We were talking about maybe like bring your dogs in and, you know, dance with your dog. Just how we could do various different things to kind of make it more niche and have its own twist on it.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: The cafe spreading the joy of dance
I think that it's a great idea. And today we have 15 other businesses in downtown Middleborough also partaking in it. We have an axe store in place that's doing it, antique stores, and the eyeglass store, and the liquor store. Everyone is doing their own little twist on it. And I think that...
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: The cafe spreading the joy of dance
whether it's something for free or a discount, let's get people dancing again and, you know, set this atmosphere where people are able to be themselves and express themselves and just be joyous because dancing is good for the soul and it makes people happy and it's worth it, for sure.