Roasters expand customers’ coffee sippin’ space

from staff reports

Andy Anderson, Glen Arbor’s piano man, is smiling these days.
His fingers have not succumbed to arthritis; in fact they’re as graceful as ballerinas when he tickles the ivories.
He drives the hottest cars in town, and hasn’t lost his passion for storytelling.
But it’s the new acoustics at the Leelanau Coffee Roasters which have him especially excited about playing show tunes in front of caffeine-guzzling tourists this summer.
The Roasters recently completed a a two-front major addition to their home base on M-22, and though better piano acoustics may not have been the primary goal behind the expansion, Anderson loves what they have done.
“The sound is outstanding now,” he said. “Piano music bounces off the hard walls and ceiling very nicely. I was getting tired of always competing with the coffee grinders when I played here before the addition.”
Anderson is truly a one-man show now that the grinders have been moved back to a different building be