Kanchan Singh is the founder and CEO of Crumbs & Whiskers. She founded her cat cafe company after quitting her job as a management consultant and raising $36,000 on Kickstarter. Her first cat cafe opening raised $22,000 in revenues on its first day in business.
Like many small businesses around the U.S., the owner of Crumbs & Whiskers is struggling to keep all three locations open. The cat lounge on O St. may be gone soon.
Isolated at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, Southern Californians are stepping up to foster and adopt shelter animals.
What we do is rescue cats and kittens from shelters who are going to be euthanized for no other reason than they're out of space. People come in, they have coffee, they cuddle with cats, they just get this very therapeutic healing, fun experience.
It's my heart and soul. What I love is not just that we’re saving cats from euthanasia in shelters, but it’s a deep healing space for a lot of people.