By JARED WEBBER
Homeless people, teen-agers, business people and college students hang out at a Provo juice and espresso bar.
The Juice 'n Java at 280 W. 100 North collects a wide variety of people.
Bevis Kennedy, 20, from Tacoma, Wash, is a homeless man who likes to get a drink at Juice 'n Java when he is not at the Greyhound bus station behind the juice and espresso bar.
'I come here every day to meet my friends, and I like the people and the girls look nice,' Kennedy said. 'Everybody here knows each other.'
It is the flavored versions of hot chocolate, espresso and fresh juices that distinguish the shop from other beverage bars that serve smoothie versions of fruit drinks. Juice 'n Java carries a wide variety of juices and hot chocolate beverages such as snicker-doodle, Mexican and Dutch.
'Some popular fresh juices are orange and banana,' said Deborah Karsten, owner of the chain of three coffee shops based in Utah Valley. White chocolate and cappuccino are some of the more popular hot chocolates.
It is the different options in the hot chocolate and fresh juices that allure BYU students to the coffee house.
'A lot of family home evening groups come here for hot chocolate,' said Ashley Greene, a psychology student from Thousand Oaks, Calif., who also works at the fresh juice and espresso bar.
Greene took pride in the fact that the juice and drinks are natural, without additives.
'I told my friend about the hot-spiced apple juice because we don't add sugar,' Greene said.
The Juice 'n Java started four years ago and has spread to three locations in the valley. The others are in Orem and American Fork.
Kennedy confirms that a huge variety of people come to the juice and espresso bar. 'Schoolers, Mormons, homeless -- they all come here,' he said.