The Team @ Current

Seth Downs: Co-Owner

Justin here. My interests range wide from my childhood enjoying games like the Legend of Zelda series to spending my last dollars as a kid renting the Star Wars movies. I’ve spent the majority of my life in AL, though I’ve never lived anywhere I liked as much as Decatur. I’m the guy posting the memes that make you shake your head and keep scrolling. I’ll tell a dad joke like nobody’s watching. I’m occasionally wearing shirts that make my friends & family give me the side eye.

We met in 2016 and have been together ever since. We also nurture 5 sweet fur children; three cats (Kitty, Minerva, and Leto) and two dogs (Athena and Hera). Kitty was adopted… but everyone else has an obvious name theme going.

It’s been a dream of ours since we started dreaming to own a business of our own. We’ve both spent a combined 25+ years in the corporate world and thought we could make a difference. Turns out, if you want to make a difference, you have to do it on your own terms!

Enter Current: Coffee + Collectibles. We always gravitate to the novelty, pop culture, and geek stuff in every store we enter, but we’ve also wished there was more of a focus on it. Seth loves an iced coffee or frappe, and Justin’s love of java is unmatched. That’s the whole idea behind this. This is the kinda stuff we love spending our leisure money on, and we think a lot of you folks do too!

A few things that make Current unique.

1: All foods & beverages served in this establishment are vegetarian. Both Seth & Justin are vegetarians, and know the struggle of finding some food to eat when we go out. That’s why we will only be serving vegetarian fare! While our carnivorous brethren will surely enjoy our foods & beverages as well, we wanted to craft a menu that was 100% safe for vegetarians to consume.

2: We are conscious of our eco-footprint. As a business in the community and country, we acknowledge our responsibility to limit our eco-footprint as much as we possibly can. Everything used to prepare and serve our food is bio-degradable.

3: We’re millennial lead, and proud of it! There’s no shame in being a millennial; and we are focused on serving, not patronizing our generation.

4: We’re just a couple of gay nerds at heart. We love pop & geek culture. Justin drinks more coffee than probably anyone you know! We are real people that want to treat our customer base like real people too. At Current, you won’t be just a number. You’ll be supporting a local business and helping us live our dreams!