On National Coffee Day, many Brooklynites will grab their morning cup from a beloved café or neighborhood cart. But in Brooklyn Heights , one new business is serving up more than caffeine. Laundry and Latte , a laundromat-coffee shop hybrid, is transforming an everyday chore into a community ritual.

For owner Jean-Roch Dumas, the concept grew out of a desire to turn something routine into something meaningful. After working for 20 years in management consulting for a top finance company, he decided he needed something “a bit more tangible.”

“I wanted to have client interaction, and use what I’ve learned to make it something real,” he told Brooklyn Paper.

Dumas, who moved to New York from France 13 years ago, said the idea of opening a laundromat came almost by accident. Close

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