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Austin coffee shop adapting to stay in business during city-wide boil water notice

The owner of Malone Specialty Coffee said they’ll drive up to Round Rock to purchase about 125 gallons of water because it’s more time efficient.

AUSTIN, Texas — Austin Water customers are under a water boil notice. So before drinking tap water, it must be boiled for at least two minutes. 

That might be easy for a small family of four. However, the boil water notice also applies to restaurants, coffee shops, bars and food trucks. Because these businesses serve a large number of people, boiling this much water isn’t efficient. 

Paul Malone is one of the owners of Malone Specialty Coffee. 

“We fully-stocked all of the food trucks up for the weekend,” said Malone. “So luckily, we have water reserves on the trucks until the end of this weekend.”

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