Coach’s Café recently opened on High St., taking the space of what was previously Carlisle’s Coffee and Sandwiches. Matt Tedrow, owner of Coach’s Café, officially opened the shop’s doors to the community Sept. 21 at 6 a.m.

“It was a good opportunity at the right time: after Carlisle’s closed, due to their own unfortunate circumstances at their other location, and it was something that we felt the town still needed,” said Tedrow. According to Tedrow, business has been steady and they are working to bring some of the college crowd to the Café.

Coach’s Café has options for breakfast, combos, a house menu, subs, deli sandwiches and sides

options.

“Right now, we do not have many specials out, but we are going to be working on some daily specials coming out,” said Tedrow. “We are working basically on our standard combo menu for the specials right now and we do have a soup of the day Monday through Friday.”

Tedrow said that Coach’s Café will have some standard specials in the near future.

Tedrow wants more college kids to come down to the café to get food and enjoy social events too.

“We are looking to bring back some of the music like what was here before—but that is still a couple of weeks away—as well as some other different activities like a trivia night,” said Tedrow. “We are open to any feedback from any of the college students about what would interest them and what they would like to see.”

Tedrow, a lifelong Greene County resident, graduated in 1995 from West Greene high school and went onto graduate from Slippery Rock University. He shows his school spirit within the café’s decorations.

“Some of it is my old gear from when I was in sports,” Tedrow said. Waynesburg University also donated some of the decorations according to Tedrow.

Most of the decorations are focused on Greene County sports history and other memorabilia that impacted Tedrow.

“One is the Jefferson Morgan picture of [softball player Cameron Dugan] pointing to the sky is Cameron Dugan,” said Tedrow. “She hit a game-winning home run to seal the WPIAL championship a day or two after her father had passed away. She was pointing up to the sky at him and I think that it is a pretty neat thing.”

Other decorations in the café include a picture of the West Greene softball team after a championship win, as well as pictures from the first televised college football game, when Waynesburg faced Fordham in 1939.

“There is a little bit of everything, all of the areas high schools are represented as well as the universities,” said Tedrow.

Coach’s Café, which is located on 78 W. High Street in Waynesburg, has found their “niche” according to Tedrow.

“The biggest thing that makes us different from everybody else is that we don’t just have the standard subs and burgers, we have some of the traditional style deli sandwiches on the thick cut bread and right now those are actually pretty hard to find,” said Tedrow.