Hachie Nutrition: Cultivating relationships through healthy energy
- Charity Fitch
- Aug 29, 2023
- 3 min read
Hachie Nutrition, located at 315 W. Main St., Suite 15, offers customers a healthy alternative for energy drinks and meal replacement shakes, but co-owners Mayra Leon and Sandra Padilla said that has never been their main goal. They’ve always wanted Hachie Nutrition to be a place for people to feel at home and to feel like family. Since opening in December 2020, Leon and Padilla have seen that dream come to life.
“Our motto was we wanted to not be like any other caffeine place,” Leon said. “We wanted to build friendships and for our customers to feel homey.”
“You never know the impact that you’re going to make on somebody,” Padilla added. “(Hachie Nutrition) allows us to interact with people and not just make an impact on them through weight loss or clean energy … but if they want to talk, we’re here.”
Padilla’s love of people and talking allows her to build relationships with people quickly, but she said she often finds herself simply listening to her customers. Many call her “their therapist,” Padilla said.
Along with creating relationships with their customers, Leon and Padilla have seen their customers build relationships with each other.
“I love that we have our morning crew,” Padilla said. “We have certain customers that only come in the morning, and before you know it, this person starts seeing this person a lot, so they’ll start introducing (themselves). Before you know it, they’re networking, or they’re becoming friends. I’ve never done that at Starbucks. I’ve never gone to Starbucks and met a random person, and before you know it, we’re friends.”
Joshua Oliver, a frequent customer and criminal investigations police lieutenant for Waxahachie PD, said he often finds himself at Hachie Nutrition for their “fantastic” drinks on days that feel like they’re “dragging.”
“Every time you walk in here, just the friendly atmosphere, getting to know everybody that works in here, is just great,” he said. “They have a lot of cop fans that come in here pretty often.”
Giving back is another core component of Hachie Nutrition, they said. Over the past two and half years, they have donated to or partnered with Texas Baptist Home for Children, the Testicular Cancer Foundation, Waxahachie Homeless Coalition, Baylor Scott & White Feed the Fight, Love Your Neighbor and more.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Leon and Padilla decided to open their own nutrition shop.
Wanting to lose weight, Padilla had turned to Leon and began drinking three meal replacement shakes a day. She lost 42 pounds. After experiencing the positive effects firsthand and looking for a change during the pandemic, Padilla wanted to open a nutrition shop with Leon. Leon had always dreamed of opening one, following her mother’s footsteps, who has opened many nutrition shops in Louisiana.
Together, they toured six different locations before finding the perfect spot in Waxahachie. After months of finalizing all the details and working through challenges, they opened Hachie Nutrition.
“We opened Hachie up in 2020 with just a little bit in our pockets,” Padilla said. “We just opened this up out of a dream.”
Hachie Nutrition has a large menu of flavors for both its tea-based energy drinks and water-based shakes, with their customers able to customize their drink. It offers three different levels of caffeine for energy drinks and has a kid-friendly option, with no caffeine, available.
“It’s a good pick-me-up,” Padilla said about their energy drinks. “It wakes you up and keeps you up but without the crash you’d get from like Monster or Red Bull.”
For more information, follow @HachieNutrition on Facebook or @hachie_nutrition on Instagram, or call 469-550-5597.
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