Joe Speicher Founder Ground to Grounds San Francisco, California What other coffee jobs have you had? I’ve had very little experience in the coffee industry here in the United States. In 2007, I worked […]
Davide Cobelli Coffee Trainer & Consultant Italy and abroad What other coffee jobs have you had? I was a coffee shop owner from 2005 to 2008 in Verona. From 2009 to 2012, I was Head […]
Patrick Burns Owner Palace Coffee Company Canyon and Amarillo, Texas What other coffee jobs have you had? Well, you have to start somewhere and my somewhere was odd. My first job in coffee was […]
Colin Whitcomb Head of Training and Quality Control Madcap Coffee Co. Washington, D.C. What other coffee jobs have you had? Barista. Key Holder. Barista-comma-Trainer. At the company-formerly-known-as Alterra Coffee Roasters, Milwaukee, Wisconsin What’s your […]
Jesse Myers Lead Roaster Quills Coffee Louisville, Kentucky What other coffee jobs have you had? Before Quills, I was the roaster and trainer for a small, campus coffeehouse and roastery named Barefoots Joe. It’s part […]
Beth Ann Caspersen Quality Control Manager Equal Exchange West Bridgewater, Massachusetts What other coffee jobs have you had? Equal Exchange; 15 years Organic Products Trading (now part of Coffee Holding), Vancouver, Washington; 1 year What’s […]
Hannah Popish Coffee Buyer’s Agent Counter Culture Coffee Durham, North Carolina What other coffee jobs have you had? This is my first… unless you count volunteering at a café called La Taza when I lived […]
David + Mae Clark Founders, Tasters, and Writers Purista Coffee Co. Tacoma, Washington What other coffee jobs have you had? Mae’s first job, in 2007, was as a barista at a ‘coffee shop’ that was […]
Joe Tynan Head Roaster/Green Buyer Code Black Coffee Melbourne, Australia What other coffee jobs have you had? Head Roaster/Trainer/Green Buyer, St Ali. Barista/Roaster, Proud Mary Barista/Roaster, Veneziano Plus a handful of barista gigs before […]
Ricardo Pereira Specialty Coffee Manager Ally Coffee Fort Lauderdale, Florida & Co-owner Due South Coffee Roasters Greenville, South Carolina What other coffee jobs have you had? I started in coffee in the summer of 2008. […]
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