A coffee shop chain that employs people with intellectual and developmental disabilities opened Saturday in downtown Winston-Salem. What started as a business for their two kids with down syndrome, Bitty and Beau, has now expanded to 16 locations. “When we started this back in Wilmington, we were one and done we thought but we realized that there was a great need for this. There was a great need for connection. There’s a great need for this bridge that the coffee shop provides for people with and without disabilities," Ben Wright, co-founder of Bitty and Beau's Coffee, said. Co-founder of Bitty and Beau’s Coffee, Ben Wright, said they saw that there aren’t a lot of jobs available for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. “We think it’s because people without disabilities don’t always understand that people with disabilities are actually real people and can do things," Wright said. Twenty-two people with intellectual and developmental disabilities were employed at this new location. Each of them, changing the way people see other people, one coffee at a time. The Winston-Salem location is located at 411 W. 4th St. in Winston-Salem. For more information on Bitty and Beau's Coffee and their other locations, go to their website here.