On www.ROASTe.com we feature to consumers some of the best coffee roasters in the U.S. Why spend money on building and promoting an ecommerce web site? Use our platform to sell your products and develop brand recognition and followers. Join us in promoting the coffee roasters online.
It would create competition for me to sell my coffee on this website along with everyone else's roast. How would you control the quality of the coffee being sold?
We hand pick our roasters. This is not on a first come first served basis of course.
As for competition, this is not different than selling in any other online/offline marketplace. The rule of thumb is that aggregation of similar businesses typically benefits everyone (e.g. the mall concept). The basic idea is to create an online presence that would challenge the giant brands and would present consumers with a real trustable source, from which they can safely try out many new coffees. At the end of the day, we try to bring coffee roasters to the front stage. We hope, that many consumers who buy e.g. Lavazza or Starbucks out of a habit, would come in, and give the great coffees, offered by the smaller players, the chance they deserve.
There are no fees involved. When we get an order from a customer to one of your products, we place a back-to-back order with the roaster (at wholesale price), who then ships to the customer directly. Simple. We use a roaster’s-direct process to ensure the ultimate freshness of the coffee. In a way, we act as your online sales and marketing representatives.
To set up your store, you will need good descriptions and photo/s of your products. You can either manage your store online yourself, or if you wish, we are happy to do it for you (as I said, no fees). It’s very easy.
We only carry the best roasters. If you believe, your place is in that group, do shoot me an email with your contact information and we will take it from there. My email is eyal@roaste.com
I would reccomend a Baratza grinder (http://www.baratza.com/) instead of pre grinding. These are solid home grinders that can easily make the transition to a light commercial use decaf espresso grinder. You can get them from $150-450, but they i thi…
what i've found is that the problem isn't traditional drip brewing - it's the airpots. anything sitting for more than half an hour gets funky tasting. if i brew a 2.2 litre airpot of our colombian at 60g/l and taste it immediately, it's really nice.…
Almost forgot Organic Products Trading (optco) Smaller offerings but good people and they get some good coffees in.
I have also read great things about sustainable harvest but haven't ordered.
Getting a box of new samples from any of these places is…
For Sale: rebadged La Spaziale EP 1-Group small commercial/large prosumer espresso machine.
This beautiful semi-automatic espresso machine is about two years old and is in pristine condition inside and out. I purchased it from a fellow CG'er last…
I've got just enough regular decaf drinkers that I can't really eliminate it (as much as I'd love to, but these are the kind of customers that have been coming in for 16 years, so...). Yeah, I'm looking at the schematics now, and I'm thinking I can…
Atlas in Seattle. Craig is a q grade trainer and one of the more knowledgeable coffee guys I've met. Also Zephyr, (I deal with the Seattle office.) I haven't tried shrub but I like the concept.
keith pettigrew, an australian barista judge who trained me a bit in australia, told me to use espresso within 3 minutes of it being ground. that rule has never failed me. i dropped $1500 on an extra k-10 for decaf and it was worth every penny. to b…
excellent suggestions so far, i emailed the links to the roaster and we'll see what he thinks. this is the stuff i really dig - i'm never going to be able to taste every coffee but having specific information about the coffees i do taste helps so mu…
I have worked in a shop that did this, and even if you grind the decaf and take it straight to the machine, you still can't dial it in to pull decent shots. It would be better to have a cheaper lower volume grinder to dedicate to decaf if you are wo…