What if your morning coffee gave behind to a community? Supported internal charities? Uplifted other tiny businesses? At Coffee Times Drive-Thru, your daily caffeine repair does accurately that.
Founded in 1999 by Michael Cripps, his hermit Jeremy, and his uncle, David Mannell, Coffee Times is a family-owned and operated drive-thru coffee emporium located on a bustling territory of Speedway, between Alvernon and Country Club.
The emporium facilities both drive-thru and walk-up windows, portion coffee and espresso drinks, smoothies, and baked products sourced from other internal Tucson eateries. Coffee Times also creates an bid to give behind frequently to internal charities like Habitat for Humanity, Ben’s Bells, AIDSWALK Tucson, and large others.
Seasonal Iced Pumpkin Pie Macchiato with whip during Coffee Times (Credit: Brielle Farmer)
A family operation innate from a passion for a coffee business
For Cripps and his co-founders, opening Coffee Times was a healthy course deliberation a family’s story in a coffee business.
“I have worked in coffee given we was 16, and my hermit [Jeremy] given he was 17 or 18,” pronounced Cripps. “And my other uncle [Tom Mannell] owned a café in Tucson for about 8 years before we non-stop Coffee Times.”
Today, that family tie to a industry, along with a common passion for ancillary a community, has helped Coffee Times build a successful following—despite augmenting foe from large coffee companies and a burgeoning internal coffee scene.
Iced Toffee Nut Mocha during Coffee Times (Credit: Brielle Farmer)
Local adore from Coffee Times
Cripps and a group aren’t vouchsafing those inhabitant coffee bondage delayed them down. Instead, they’re creation an bid to partner with other Tucson businesses to stay rival while ancillary a community.
“We’re perplexing to emanate a village by featuring and operative with internal vendors,” pronounced Cripps. “We wish to work together; we’re perplexing not usually to be successful ourselves though hopefully to assistance these other businesses turn successful, too.”
Some of their new partnerships and pop-up menu equipment embody a irritated pear limeade from Prest, vegan baked products from Penny’s Sweet Treats, and coffee from Black Standard Coffee.
Iced Toffee Nut Mocha during Coffee Times (Credit: Brielle Farmer)
Throughout a year, Coffee Times also serves uninformed muffins from Village Bake House, bagels from a internal indiscriminate bakery, and appetite bars from Tucson-based R Bar.
Coffee for a cause
In further brewing coffee, a drive-thru proudly partners with internal charities and organizations by donating both income and coffee to different causes and events.
Each quarter, a village is invited to name an classification to support around a Coffee Times website. Then, Coffee Times matches 50 cents from each transaction and submits a concession on a initial Monday of each month to a comparison cause.
“Tucson has been unequivocally good to my family and me,” pronounced Cripps. “So we wish to give back. We have quarterly distributions that we do each 3 months, and when a gift comes to us, we present coffee for events.”
“Our family and a extended family have always been unequivocally concerned in a community,” he continued, “and so we’d like to lift on that tradition.”
Menu equipment to try
Coffee Times facilities both year-round menu equipment and anniversary specialties and has recently done an bid to yield healthier transport and vegan options in and with a some-more indulgent coffee offerings. Alternative divert such as soy, oat, almond, and coconut are accessible for an upcharge of 75 cents.
Oat Milk Iced Latte during Coffee Times (Credit: Brielle Farmer)
Some of a some-more renouned menu items, according to Cripps, include:
- Prickly Pear Limeade from Prest – Available for a singular time, this agreeably spicy and honeyed (but not too sweet) pinkish splash was a outcome of a partnership with Prest—a internal coffee emporium owned by a former Coffee Times employee.
- Caramel Macchiato – A fan favorite, Cripps maintains that this classical espresso splash is “at slightest 10 times improved than a one from Starbucks.”
- Protein Power Pak Smoothie – Cripps remarkable that this renouned blended splash facilities high-quality mixture like Ghirardelli’s cocoa, powdered peanut butter, whey protein, banana, and almond divert surfaced off with a jar of caffeine from a singular espresso shot.
- Sriracha Hummus Wrap – Made uninformed in-house, this vegan-friendly lunchtime favorite facilities sriracha, chickpeas, tahini, romaine, uninformed garlic, cucumbers, and tomatoes.
Coffee Times Drive-thru (Credit: Brielle Farmer)
Location and hours
Coffee Times is located during 3401 E. Speedway Blvd. Operating hours are 4:30 a.m. – 7 p.m.Monday to Saturday and from 5:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Sunday.
For some-more information, revisit coffeetimestucson.com.