Who is Solo Coffee?
A Professional Operation Built to Scale
Solo Coffee Cart is a professional mobile espresso operation serving events across Ohio and Kentucky. Since launching in 2023, we've grown from a single cart into a multi-cart team that's served 500+ events — from intimate gatherings to corporate activations of 1,000+ attendees — with 75+ five-star reviews behind us.
Each cart is staffed by a dedicated, fully trained barista team and serves roughly 80–100 drinks per hour. For high-volume events we deploy multiple carts and additional baristas to keep wait times short and the service flowing. Every booking is fully insured and bonded, and every detail — equipment, staffing, logistics, branding — is planned and executed by our team.
Fortune 500 brands trust us with their most visible moments: P&G, Kroger, Boeing, Ferrari, Pinterest, FIFA, and the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team have all hired Solo Coffee Cart for their events.
Fully Custom Branded Experiences
When a brand, couple, or event team partners with Solo, the entire setup can be customized end to end. Our carts become an extension of your brand, your wedding, or your activation theme — not a generic catering booth dropped into the room.
- Full cart wraps in your brand colors, logo, monogram, or custom artwork
- Branded cups, sleeves, and signage printed for the event
- Latte art printer that prints logos, monograms, headshots, or custom designs directly on the foam of every drink
- Custom menus with signature drinks named for the brand, the couple, or the occasion
- Tailored barista attire to match the look and feel of the event
If you can imagine it on a coffee bar, we can usually build it. Most custom branding is included in our activation packages; the more lead time we have, the more we can pull off.
Built for Multi-Day Conferences & Large Activations
Multi-day trade shows, conferences, and brand activations are some of our most-booked work. We routinely run 2-, 3-, and 5-day shows with discounted multi-day package rates, daily setup and breakdown when the venue requires it, and rotating drink menus that keep things fresh for returning attendees.
For larger activations we go beyond the cart itself and deliver fully custom booth builds — branded backdrops, signage, lounge elements, and lead-capture integrations coordinated alongside the coffee service. Our team works directly with your event planner, venue ops, AV crew, and freight team to make sure the booth is in place, powered, and pouring on time, every day of the show.
Whether it's a single trade show booth, a multi-cart conference takeover, or a week-long campus activation, we have the equipment, the staff, and the operational experience to pull it off cleanly.
How It Started
Solo Coffee Cart was founded in Cincinnati in 2023 by Hannah and Ryan Hill — both longtime Cincinnati-area residents with deep roots in the local coffee community. Hannah brought 10+ years of specialty barista experience working in independent coffee shops across Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. Ryan brought the operational discipline to turn it into a real business.
What began as a single cart has grown into a professional, multi-cart operation serving Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton, Northern Kentucky, Lexington, and Louisville — and it keeps growing because clients keep coming back.
Why Hospitality Comes First
We've served over 500 events since launching, and we've learned that what people remember isn't just the coffee — it's how they felt getting it.
That's why hospitality is at the center of everything we do. Every guest who walks up to our cart gets a genuine conversation, not a rushed transaction. We learn names. We ask about preferences. If someone wants something that's not on the menu, we figure out how to make it happen. For recurring corporate clients, we remember the regulars and their go-to orders.
It sounds simple, but it changes the entire experience. We've had event planners tell us their guests spent more time at the coffee cart than anywhere else — not because the line was long, but because people were enjoying themselves.
This is what sets Solo apart from other mobile coffee cart services. Plenty of vendors can serve coffee at an event. We create an experience that feels personal, warm, and genuinely special for every single guest.
Specialty-Grade Drinks at Every Event
Our focus is espresso done exceptionally well. Lattes, cappuccinos, cortados, americanos, mochas — the classics, pulled and poured to the same standard you'd expect from the best specialty cafes in the region. We also serve cold brew, matcha, chai, hot chocolate, and seasonal specials that rotate throughout the year.
Every cart shows up with professional-grade equipment, premium beans, and a barista trained to handle high-volume service without dropping the quality. The menu is flexible — we'll tailor it to your guest count, your service window, the season, and the kind of event you're running.
Where We Serve
Solo Coffee Cart is proud to serve communities across Ohio and Kentucky. Since June 2023, we've brought specialty coffee to events in:
- Greater Cincinnati and the surrounding metro area
- Northern Kentucky — Florence, Covington, Newport, and beyond
- Columbus — corporate events, weddings, and everything in between
- Cleveland — bringing specialty coffee to Northeast Ohio
- Dayton — from the Oregon District to corporate campuses
- Louisville — crossing the river for Kentucky's largest city
- Lexington — serving the heart of the Bluegrass
No matter where your event is, you get the same Solo experience: exceptional coffee, genuine hospitality, and the kind of service that makes your event better.