Parable got its start in October 2020 when it began as a coffee pop-up operating out of Comune, a Columbus restaurant. Parable was found by Jeffrey Clark, Ben Willis and Wyatt Burk. Named after African-American Afrofuturist writer Octavia E. Butler's novel Parable of the Sower, Parable draws from the concepts and beliefs created and thought of by the book's main protagonist Lauren Olamina. “As a minority-owned business, as well as a queer-owned business, change is something we as individuals know all too well,” says Ben. “Historically, we have been either cast out of or not thought of, thus leaving us at the fringes of industry. Parable exists as a reminder that there are other possible ways of being, as long as there are new ways of seeing. So we are starting with our team members, our collective and our community.”