Cory Killian, a Mars resident and 19-year-old general studies student at Butler County Community College, is shown in a café in the Heaton Family Learning Commons on BC3’s main campus in Butler Township on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025. Vintage Coffeehouse, a downtown Butler business, will begin to sell specialty brews, breakfast sandwiches, paninis, pastries, protein balls, quiche and salads in the café Nov. 3. Submitted photo.
Mia Marcarelli has up to two hours between classes. Cory Killian, 1½ hours, Richard Tutich one and Alora Lynch, just 10 minutes.
The students attending Butler County Community College’s main campus in Butler Township said they are excited that Vintage Coffeehouse will begin to sell specialty brews, breakfast sandwiches, paninis, pastries, protein balls, quiche and salads in the café on the upper floor of the Heaton Family Learning Commons on Nov. 3.
Peter and Angela Kupas, owners of the downtown Butler coffee shop, said they will start operations in the smaller of the college’s two cafes in fewer than two weeks and possibly in mid-January in the larger café in the Student Union – which the college is refurbishing in a project unrelated to its recent search for its next food-service provider.
BC3’s trustees approved an agreement Oct. 15 that authorized Vintage Coffeehouse, located 209 S. Main St. to succeed CRH Catering Co. of Connellsville to operate, manage and provide food services on the college’s main campus.
CRH operated under renewable annual contracts with BC3 for approximately 25 years. Before the most-recent agreement’s expiration in June, BC3 and Sodexo – which acquired CRH in November 2024 – did not execute a new contract, and the college formed a food service selection committee that distributed requests for proposals.
Alora Lynch, a New Castle resident and 19-year-old early childhood education (Pre K-4) student at Butler County Community College, studies near a café in the Heaton Family Learning Commons on BC3’s main campus in Butler Township on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025. Vintage Coffeehouse, a downtown Butler business, will begin to sell specialty brews, breakfast sandwiches, paninis, pastries, protein balls, quiche and salads in the café Nov. 3. Submitted photo.
Eighteen-year-old Mars residents Richard Tutich, left, and Mia Marcarelli study near a café in the Heaton Family Learning Commons on Butler County Community College’s main campus in Butler Township on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025. Tutich is a business management student and Marcarelli, a health care science student. Vintage Coffeehouse, a downtown Butler business, will begin to sell specialty brews, breakfast sandwiches, paninis, pastries, protein balls, quiche and salads in the café Nov. 3.
Lorena DiDomenico, a 2025 graduate of Butler County Community College, works at Vintage Coffeehouse during BC3’s coffee and conversation admissions event Thursday, July 31, 2025. Vintage Coffeehouse, a downtown Butler business, will begin to sell specialty brews, breakfast sandwiches, paninis, pastries, protein balls, quiche and salads in a café in the Heaton Family Learning Commons on BC3’s main campus in Butler Township on Nov. 3.
Angela and Peter Kupas, owners of Vintage Coffeehouse in downtown Butler, are shown in their business in a summer 2025 photograph. Vintage Coffeehouse will begin to sell specialty brews, breakfast sandwiches, paninis, pastries, protein balls, quiche and salads in a café in the Heaton Family Learning Commons on Butler County Community College’s main campus in Butler Township on Nov. 3.
