Photo by Matthew Liteplo
Kallos was fired from his first job as barista in Ottawa after asking why the coffee was so bad. "That was, what, six years ago now?" he says. "Now there are tonnes of fantastic places. If they had been around when I first moved here, I probably never would have opened this place.
Cam Kallos has decided Minnie the Mermaid, above, will have a permanent home at CC's Corner after a young family with children drove from Kingston to see her, only to find the case empty. She'd been loaned out for a photo shoot that day.
CC's Corner in Richmond, Ont.
