Roast Your Own or Buy? A Strategic Guide for Café Growth and Sustainability
(Room 23 BC)
10 Apr 26
1:30 PM
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2:45 PM
For many café owners, the question of whether to roast their own coffee or continue purchasing roasted beans is becoming increasingly important. This session provides a clear, data-driven framework to help coffee businesses make that decision with confidence.
We’ll explore the operational, financial, and environmental impacts of both models, focusing on how roasting in-house can strengthen relationships with farmers, improve profit margins, and enhance quality control. Attendees will gain insight into how decentralized roasting can reduce costs and carbon footprint while enabling cafés to tell a more authentic, farm-connected story to their customers.
The session also highlights the challenges: equipment investment, workflow integration, training, and scalability. Using examples from cafés that have successfully transitioned into café-roasteries, we’ll identify the key steps and considerations before taking the leap.
Whether your goal is to expand your brand, achieve greater sustainability, or simply understand your options, this session offers practical knowledge and inspiration for your next stage of growth.