‘Vietnamese American Starbucks’ unites brothers whose drive stems from poverty
By Anh Do, Los Angeles Times (TNS) When the Nguyen brothers opened their first 7 Leaves coffee shop in 2012, they didn’t dare tell their mother and father. The siblings feared that they would be devastated. After all, their parents were Vietnamese migrants who fled their war-ravaged homeland in the 1990s and eventually settled in Orange County, California’s Little Saigon. They’d dreamed that their