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Two friends open dream cafe in Toronto that's also a community hub
A pair of Toronto-based friends have teamed up to create their dream cafe, bike shop and community hub. Nearly a year after opening, they're still on a roll.Timm Harding and Eric Kamphof, founders of Harbord Village's Pedaal Coffee + Bikes had been in the bike business long before they ever opened their own shop. In fact, they first met years ago running a diffent bike shop in the Annex, turning an its at the time approximately $1 million annual revenue in to $6 million during their time there."We tried to buy into the company," Eric tells me, "but they decided, after a long negotiation, they wanted to keep it in the family, and we kind of realized, well, we can't really compete with that, so we're gonna leave and start our own story."Just how that story actually began, Eric says, was a strike of kismet in itself.Eric Kamphof and Timm Harding.The shop, which is located at the corner of Brunswick and Harbord, is actually the former home of Major Treat and Emissions Rec...
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