Compassion Café delivers coffee, connection, community

  • With husband Steve at her back, Compassion Café owner Lisa Tubbs wields the scissors for a ribbon-cutting ceremony arranged by Robbie King (behind bow) of the Eatonton-Putnam Chamber of Commerce. IAN TOCHER/Staff
    With husband Steve at her back, Compassion Café owner Lisa Tubbs wields the scissors for a ribbon-cutting ceremony arranged by Robbie King (behind bow) of the Eatonton-Putnam Chamber of Commerce. IAN TOCHER/Staff

    When Lisa Tubbs moved to Putnam County in 2019, she never imagined she’d become the owner of a bustling new coffee shop.

    “Absolutely not. This was not on my bucket list, but here we are,” she said last Wednesday morning prior to a ribbon-cutting ceremony arranged by the Eatonton-Putnam Chamber of Commerce.

    Tubbs officially opened Compassion Café Aug. 20, and said its inspiration grew out of personal…