A renouned qualification coffee spit in San Diego has been purchased by a Topeka, Kansas-based association that has skeleton to enhance a brand.
Bird Rock Coffee Roasters, that has coffee bars in La Jolla and Little Italy and a roasting trickery in Morena, was purchased by PT’s Coffee Roasting Company. They did not divulge a squeeze price.
Jeff Taylor, 54, now co-owner of PT’s Coffee and Bird Rock, pronounced it’s always been a dream of his to pierce to San Diego. Like PT’s, Taylor pronounced Bird Rock uses a top peculiarity beans, has an courtesy to fact when roasting and clever relations with coffee producers.
He pronounced a expansion of eccentric roasters is a thoughtfulness of consumers’ enterprise for a aloft peculiarity product than bigger coffee chains.
“The best coffees are what we’re buying. Not Starbucks,” Taylor said. “We’re not about divert and sugar. We’re about a peculiarity of a coffee we buy.”
Taylor purchased Bird Rock along with PT’s co-founder Fred Polzin and a Kansas City-based investment group. Bird Rock owners Chuck Patton will stay on as conduct coffee customer for both companies.
Taylor and Patton have been friends for some-more than a decade and Bird Rock was sole for a “fair price,” Taylor said. Whereas Bird Rock was some-more focused on retail, PT’s has been some-more of a indiscriminate distributor.
He pronounced he skeleton to open during slightest dual some-more Bird Rock coffee bars in San Diego County by a finish of a year. Taylor pronounced he will also supplement new offerings to a menu of a stores, including coffee from Brazil and Ecuador.
PT has 35 to 40 employees and Bird Rock has 45.
Bird Rock has racked adult copiousness of awards in a scarcely 15 years of operation. It was ranked No.1 in a Top Coffees of 2016 foe from “Coffee Review,” an online publication, and won a Good Food Award for coffee dual years in a quarrel formed on some-more than 200 blind tastings.
It is obvious for its Geisha varietal, an $11 crater of coffee.
The multiple of a dual companies comes as a coffee universe is upgrading to a gig economy with mobile ordering. Starbucks’ mobile pick-up-and-go complement has proven so renouned that some stores have struggled to keep up.
In a final entertain of 2016, Starbucks mobile orders represented during slightest 20 percent of sales during rise trade times during scarcely 1,200 Starbucks stores, pronounced Bloomberg.
Taylor pronounced a association is in a routine of building their possess mobile grouping application.
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