Partners Coffee

Our story began in 2012 with an unwavering commitment to sourcing and roasting quality coffee. Since then, our partnerships with farmers, producers, baristas, roasters, businesses, and customers have helped us grow and nurture a shared coffee culture and experience. We are only as great as the sum of our partners. As partners in coffee, we thank you for being part of this journey and helping us become who we are today.

Our Mission

Partners Coffee is built on the strength of our relationships at the origin. We source coffee from all over the world from people we know and trust. We recognize our responsibility to help build a sustainable supply chain that ensures access to specialty-grade coffee, allowing our growing partners the financial security to improve upon their quality of life year after year.  

We believe that our producing partners are the greatest stewards of the land. Working directly with producers allows us to make large meaningful purchases, and through these purchases, we are able to continue vertically-integrated sourcing projects that provide long-term sustainability. Our proudest example is El Ramo, a sourcing project that focuses on the bi-annual buying of stunning coffees from a single municipality in the Antioquia department of Colombia. Every Colombian offering on our menu from this region has been discovered through the curation of El Ramo—and the most special coffees are kept isolated and sold on their own. By pledging to purchase non-commodity-priced coffee, we are helping build a secure supply while simultaneously allowing our growing partners to invest in their local communities. Our relationships and annual purchasing of coffees strengthen the security and building of community projects, and our partners in Ethiopia and Honduras have been able to implement upgrades to local schools that will benefit future generations.

Our Roasting Footprint

We endeavor to reuse, repurpose, and recycle all collateral material associated with roasting, packaging and delivering our products, and we avoid one-time-use consumables wherever possible. Green coffee bags are made available for single and bulk donation requests. Chaff, the last protective layer of the coffee seed and a byproduct of roasting, is donated to local farmers. This by-product is extremely nutrient-rich, making for rich fertilizer and compost.   Our retail coffee bags are part of a zero-waste manufacturing chain. We collect used bags in all of our stores, consolidate them and mail them back to the manufacture for sterile, easy, low-energy conversion back into new bags.