Business Opportunity

Roasterie Shop/Espresso Bar (partnership opportunity). Ready-to-launch Roasterie Shop/Espresso Bar is looking for an investor-partner to run the store. Strategically located in the upscale Aventura (Miami, FL) area. Main product lines: Specialty Coffees (green and roasted), Teas, hand-made chocolate and authentic Italian gelato. Household brewing and roasting equipment and accessories. Fully equipped with NEW, top-of-the-line espresso, brewing and roasting equipment. All permits and licenses granted. Web site with e-commerce platform ready for shopping cart activation. For more information please visit www.briosocafe.com or call 305.931.4510.

Looking to Hire

Roast master wanted. We've built an exhibition style, small-batch roaster to help celebrate a rich coffee heritage. Our start-up venture is where history meets innovation. It's an exciting time for our budding downtown coffee culture. Please send resumes/inquires to jburch@clabbergirl.com. For more information go to www.rexroasting.com.

Contract Roaster Wanted. We are looking for a relationship with a roaster with larger capacity than our shop roaster to roast and ship for us. Please contact us via e-mail or via the Roaster’s Guild forum (in the Member’s Forum “Looking for a contract roaster”) if you are interested. Thanks. Please send e-mail to: coffee.roaster@yahoo.com.

Cafe Imports, the independently-owned, high end boutique green coffee importer is seeking a new entry-level sales/account manager/customer service person. The ideal candidate is a college graduate with a minimum 3.2 GPA who is a coffee fanatic/Foodie/beer wine lover-type of person who is aesthetically inclined with the skills to back it up. Must have the ability to focus and get job done while able to multitask at the same time. Excellent phone skills and a human touch for customer service are essential. Fluency in Spanish, Portuguese, Swahili, or French is a major plus. Great mathematical and analytic skills are needed. You will be participating in daily cuppings, where we taste coffees to look for defects and flavor attributes. This is essential in determining which coffees we purchase and general quality control. You will initially learn how it works here and help input sales, field sales calls, answer customer questions, etc. You may also help with monthly Fair Trade reporting, and other general tasks, all of which will help you build your understanding of the coffee business. We are hiring here with the assumption that you are going to excel here and grow into a coffee professional. Salary is commensurate with experience level, and if you have an outside skill set from another industry, please include that in your cover letter to accompany your resume. Please email your resume and cover letter to jason@cafeimports.com

Used Equipment

Used Roasters. Used, demo units and trade-in models available on a “first come, first served” basis. Industrial-grade, “plug&play” hi-efficient, fully-automated & semi-automatic shop roasters. Batch capacities: 1 lb - 5.5 lb. No gas/installation required. Lifetime warranty on craftsmanship. 4-month warranty on parts (used units). 305.931.4510 or www.briosocafe.com/home-coffee-roasters-commercial-coffee-roasters.html.

15 Kg (32 lb) Commercial Coffee Roaster (demo unit). Unit has roasted just a few batches. Output: Up to for 4 batches/hour. Mint condition. 3 years full factory warranty. $18,000. For more information please call 305.931.4510 or e-mail inquiries via www.briosocafe.com.

Pack Line packaging machine. Weigh-fill-seal packaging machine. 8-16 oz. bags/240 bags/hour. 240 vac. – 20 amps. 70-90 psi air pressure required. Great machine. Barely used. Asking price is $16,000 firm. For more information contact Ken Rodocker at 505.681.0756 or e-mail abqken2000@yahoo.com.

Diedrich 160 Kg Destoner. Excellent condition! VFR Controller adjust airflow to lift product., DC motor for gate. ($9000). Modern Process Equipment SRM - 4555 Roller Mill Coffee Grinder—Practically new! Includes Taylor Stainless Steel sieve analysis screens ($12000). Universal Green Coffee Loader 12 ft ($2500). Contact Mary 317.280.1230 or info@stantoncoffee.com.

Business For Sale

West Yellowstone, Montana. Well-established Bookstore and Coffee Bar with sidewalk patio, located at the center of town’s tourist district, minutes from the entrance to Yellowstone National Park. Business, fixtures, inventory and equipment for sale. Contact Sandi; Montana Territorial Land Co. for information and to arrange a showing. 866.646.7145

West Yellowstone, Montana. Perfect location for this Bakery, Coffee and Unique Retail Shop. Commercial and Retail Sales. In the hub of the tourist district, main street location, high visibility, and only minutes from Yellowstone National Park. Business, equipment, fixtures, and inventory for sale. Contact Sandi; Montana Territorial Land Co. 866.646.7145

Roasting Business for Sale. Includes 75-kilo Probat with afterburner, 15-kilo Primo, Mirapak form & fill, sample roaster, bucket elevator and other operating inventory. Also includes commercial and home accounts. Great turn-key opportunity. Please call 716.583.1697 or email johnmaxius@yahoo.com for information.

Looking for Coffee Carts

The Chicago High School Coffee Project. Don't throw away your old coffee cart! We need your help! "The Chicago High School Coffee Project," a Chicago city high school program, needs your old coffee carts for their coffee shops. 100 percent of shop's proceeds benefit working students and their programs--a great incentive for students to succeed and an opportunity to develop workplace skills! If you have used coffee carts to donat to a worthwhile charitable cause, please contact: Modern Process Equipment, Lizzie Ephraim, 773.254.3929, lizzie@mpechicago.com.

Looking for Partnership

Seeking Passionate Small Roasters! Would you be interested in participating in a retail/wholesale cooperative for national exposure of your products? Email us a passion4coffee@gmail.com.

Consulting/Education

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Services Available

Contract Coffee Roaster Available. Are you struggling to keep up with the demands of your growing retail or wholesale coffee business? Would you like to sell coffee under your brand name, but don’t want to get into roasting? Let us help you. We owffer contract roasting services for anything from roasting and shipping in bulk, to drop shipping retail orders to your online customers. No project too small. E-mail us at roaster247@yahoo.com for information.

Organizations

Cup For Education is a non-profit organization designed to help poor rural coffee communities of Central and Latin America build schools within their communities and assist in providing them with teachers and the basic tools needed to educate the future generations of coffee farmers. Cup for Education sponsors a teacher for the Solidarity School in the community of Los Alpes in Jinotega, Nicaragua. Entering its second year, Karen Gordon, president and founder of CFE, says, “We are pleased to have raised enough funds to enable us to sponsor the teacher again for the school. The additional teacher allows this community to send children to school to further their education by another grade level.” For more information, go to www.cupforeducation.org or call 800.458.2233.