By Kimberly Wolford, Student Reporter

Abilene’s newest coffee shop is brewing up an easier way for ACU students to pay for their beverages and food items. The Brew.net is the first Abilene business to allow students to use their student IDs and student accounts to purchase goodies from its store.

Students can enter the local coffee store and purchase a gift card with either cash or their debit and credit cards. Once the actual transaction is processed students have a choice between using a Brew.net gift card or have the gift card amount transferred to their accounts. Students can not directly purchase items from Brew.net with Campus Cash or Bean Bucks on their student accounts.

The program began in October, when the shop first opened its doors. Broyles said she has seen an increase in the amount of students using their ID cards in the past two months.

Students who purchase a gift card valuing $20 or more receive a discount of five percent on the card.

Gift cards can purchase any item in the shop. The Brew.net sells coffee, lunch, sandwiches and T-shirts.

“The Internet access is free for anyone who comes in,” Broyles said. “If someone just wants to escape campus, they can come here and study.”

Broyles also said a few professors have class at The Brew.net.

The Brew.net sends 25 percent of all its profits to an orphanage in Brazil, and the owners visit the children several times a year. Broyles said the photos around The Brew.net are all of the children and the owners.