The Greene County High School Coffee Shop provides more than just tasty beverages and food.

Instructor Julie Kennedy says the 15 high school students are taking basic bakery and advanced bakery, where they learn how to make cookies, quick and yeast breads, pies and cakes. She tells Raccoon Valley Radio the Coffee Shop allows the students to rotate and do certain positions and serve their fellow classmates and the public to give them a real world experience of running a coffee shop.

For Sophomore Seth Stucky he is taking Coffee Shop for a second year in a row and enjoys every minute of it. He appreciates having something like a coffee shop that challenges and makes him better himself.

“This is the only school that I know of that actually has this class. You can go to like some of the farther north cities like the one that I came from up in the Mason City area, they don’t even think of stuff like this. All they have is an FCS class and call it good.”

The Coffee Shop offers freshly baked items like turnovers, cookies, along with smoothies, hot and iced coffees, mochas, lattes, and bottled beverages as well. It is open to the public on Tuesdays through Fridays from 8-10:15am until February 16th. Then the Ram Restaurant will be open for the rest of the school year.