The Art of Small Business Roosroast coffee
Looking back on the great meals I've
had it was usually only one thing that really left me in awe. The
bread. A glass of wine. A piece of fish...okay, I'm really simple.
Roasting coffee and pulling shots of espresso
allowed me the same level of satisfaction as directing a kitchen
full of people preparing 450 great meals.
(I spent 20 years cooking in some resorts areas around the world)
I'm wondering if a great cup of coffee is harder to get them a great
meal? The ritual of making a cup of coffee is so simple, so beautiful,
and everyone can afford it too. It's like saying hello to a stranger
and they say hello too.
Roosroast Coffee is the perfect small business
because it allows me to combine my previous knowledge and experience
into a product that everyone can relate. I tell people; "I
finally found
a way of consistently sell my art. I put it on a coffee bag!"
The combination old world artisanship, cooking,
design, marketing, and sales go into each bag of Roosroast. Buying
Roosroast makes people happy because they love my coffee or know
someone who loves.
Coffee love is huge at Roosroast
- Each bag of coffee is hand printed with an
original linoleum block of my own design.
- Each bag is roast dated
- Each bag has a detailed and sometimes zany
description of the variety of coffee and roast profile
- Each bag is shipped off "Stat!" to
you
Corporate America has been breaking its neck in
recent years to appear inspired, chancy, random, quirky, personal
and authentic in their slogans, personnel training, packaging and
product choices. I'm really blown away that
you can pass off a micro-waved pannini with grill marks on it for
a actual toasted one. What that says to me is more people need to
get out and try new things and taste what they're trying.
By drinking Roosroast you're saying I'm drinking
Roosroast and and I'm supporting an individual who is just like
myself and is not satisfied with fake grill marks or things posing
to be something they are not.
Being small and in control of all aspects of a
business is what artisan production is about and that is Roosroast.
I pride myself in being like the Chinese people I worked side by
side with in Hong Kong back in 1993. We did what we said we were
going to do. We worked till we got the job done and we always figured
out a way to make it happen. I'm like a China Man Now. Na ho Ma!
Confessions Of A Coffee Addict...
Back in 1989 I drove across the country non-stop
alone in my famous green 1972 Volvo 142E series. Getting 20 mpg
driving 70 mph and drinking thermos full after thermos full of truck
stop coffee. As I rolled into Breckenridge, I was at a low point
in my life. I really gone and done it this time.
I think I took in more coffee then humanly possible. I tried to
think of anyone I knew that would have been able to go cup for cup
with me mile after mile New York to Colorado. I was seeing things,
babbling, my ears were ringing, I had been peeing into a Ocean Spray
bottle. There wasn't a vitamin or mineral left in my body. I really
gone and done it. I'll never do this again I kept telling my self.
Oh the shame I felt. I'd over dosed and I needed help medical, physical
and emotional. I was swearing off Joe, calling it quits I was driving
and shaking and crying and saying I would never ever drink coffee
again. No more evil brew. Did I ever feel bad I drove right back
home to 104 Tamarisk and I crawled into bed. None of my roommates
were home. It was off season. Town was dead. I laid there a sweat.
I woke up the next day and had a cup of coffee
and I haven't looked back since (back then If you ground your coffee
from whole beans you were a gourmet).
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