Rose Cat Coffee & Reading Society | Lincoln, NE

Coffee, Connection, & Collective Change

What We're About

Rachel from Rose Cat Coffee Co smiles while serving an iced latte!

The best coffee

Served by the best people

80% of individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities are unemployed nationwide.  

At Rose Cat Coffee Company and Reading Society we are actively seeking to decrease that statistic one employment opportunity at a time, and designing a space where…

  • Relationships are built.
  • Employees feel seen, valued, included, and loved by their community.
  • Employees can take pride and ownership in what they do and fully realize their own potential.
  • Joy can seep into every cup of coffee served and out the doors into daily interactions with others.
  • Kindness is spread and inclusion is not only talked about but felt and fully embraced.
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Rose Cat team wraps around owner Brenda Kasaty.

Get to know

Our Founder

Brenda Kasaty is a wife, a mother of three girls, a licensed social worker, a home baker, a coffee enthusiast, and an unapologetic dreamer. She has been touched by individuals with Intellectual and Developmental disabilities throughout her life, particularly watching her nephew grow up, working as a PARA in an IDD high school classroom, coaching adaptive athletes, and most recently with friends in the Lincoln community.

Rose Cat Coffee Co and Reading Society is the culmination of years of dreaming, and an unrelenting hope that together we can create a connected community that will change the way that individuals with IDD are treated, valued, accepted, seen, and integrated into their own communities.

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Wide Lens view of Rose Cat's comfortable seating area and take-and-leave library.

Life is better with Coffee, Cats, and Books!

Rose Cat Reading Society

Discover our large in-house library, curated with inclusivity in mind. Take or leave a book, find yourself a cozy spot, and immerse yourself in the enchanting world of literature.

Visit the shop often and be on the lookout for the launch of Rose Cat Reading Soiety, where you will have the opportunity to participate in fun reading challenges, be highlighted on our social media pages and be entered into drawings for awesome Rose Cat merch.

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Meet The Rose Cat Family

Rose Cat Coffee Co employees pose with Owner Brenda Kasaty while wearing merchandise, available in store or online.
Rose Cat Baristas, Courtney, Amber, Taylor, and Elissa pose in their aprons in front of the counter.
Rose Cat Barista, Lu, poses in front of decor in the coffee shop.
Barista at Rose Cat Coffee Co, Aubrey, posing with a Rose Cat Coffee mug, available in store or online.
Rose Cat Coffee Co Barista, Chad, posing in a tshirt next to two Rose Cat Coffee Mugs and Rose Cat Coffee beans, available in store or online.
Wide Lens view of Rose Cat Coffee Co in Lincoln Nebraska featuring comfortable seating and cute decor.
Rose Cat Coffee Co Barista Kelsi Serving Rose Cat's famous brown butter chocolate chip cookies.