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Equipment for Sale
1997 Roure 120-kilo roaster, midco burner, direct drive motors, all factory components, thermal afterburner included, blower motor and other spare parts. $50,000. Owner will put on truck and assist the smooth transaction and delivery. E-mail jumpingbeancoffee@hotmail.com or call 709.727.8850.
Looking to Purchase
Looking to buy used 25- to 30-kilo roaster. Must be complete, operable and conservatively priced. Please call 843.884.4292 (South Carolina) or fax 843.849.5476.
E-mail theirbuckscoffee@yahoo.com.
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.
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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
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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.
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