A local coffee shop will celebrate its third anniversary with an all-day event on Friday. 

Before A Cup Of Common Wealth opened on July 1, 2013, owner Salvador Chavez scouted several cities to open a coffee shop, said Marketing Assistant Zachary Wooldridge. Chavez had started saving money to open a coffee shop since he was 15 years old. 

Located at 105 Eastern Ave., the shop will celebrate its third year of business this Friday with an all-day celebration.

“We want to have a celebration each year, not of just us, but of the community that’s built up around our shop and all of the great customers and friends we have,” Wooldridge said. Last year on July 1, A Cup Of Common Wealth had its first anniversary event. 

Wooldridge said the shop will open at 6 a.m. and will give away free breakfast from 8 a.m to 10 a.m. Other events during the celebration include games and contests, such as a three-legged race, cornhole, giant Jenga, euchre and throwing pie in baristas’ faces. Sign-ups for the contests are available inside A Cup of Common Wealth.

Wooldridge said the lunch fair will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and the dinner fair will be from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

A Cup of Common Wealth invited some of their favorite food trucks, local businesses and nonprofits to attend the event. Wooldridge said the event is similar to a street fair.

The coffee shop will close down a portion of Eastern Avenue near the shop’s location during the event. A Snapchat geofilter will be in place during the celebration.

WRFL will DJ the event. Some live music acts, such as Mike Acord and others from the Lexington Philharmonic and Nicholas Penn, will perform at the celebration as well. Acord and others will perform from 5 p.m to 6:15 p.m. and Penn will perform from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

The shop will close at 8 p.m. on Friday, but A Cup of Common Wealth invites attendees to Crank & Boom from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. to continue the celebration.

“It’s more like celebrating the people who allow us to do what we do, so we like to give back to them if we can,” Wooldridge said.