Blue Bottle Coffee Company
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| Industry | Coffee |
| Headquarters | Oakland, California |
| Products | Coffee |
| Website | bluebottlecoffee |
Blue Bottle Coffee Company is a coffee roaster and retailer headquartered in Oakland, California, United States. The company focuses on single-origin beans. The CEO & founder of the company is James Freeman.
The company while based in Oakland, California soon expanded to other areas around the country. Blue Bottle first expanded to several cafés in locations around San Francisco, including the Ferry Building and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's rooftop garden.
W. James Freeman founded Blue Bottle Coffee in the early 2000s in Oakland, CA, borrowing the name from one of Europe's first cafes, The Blue Bottle Coffee House. His intention was to roast coffee in small batches (6 lb.s per roast) to sell within 24 hours of roasting, initially as a home-delivery service. Blue Bottle soon ceased deliveries, and opened as a traditional cafe.
Blue Bottle opened additional locations in San Francisco and elsewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area, and then opened its first New York location in 2010. The company-owned stores carry off-menu items such as the "Gibraltar", a form of cortado. San Francisco-based contemporaries include Four Barrel Coffee and Ritual Coffee Roasters, among others. In 2012, Blue Bottle followed in the footsteps of previously independent roasters like Stumptown Coffee by taking $20 million in venture capital investment.
In 2015, Blue Bottle completed a venture capital round in which it raised $70 million+ from investors led by Fidelity.
Blue Bottle locations have no wifi and no power outlets to encourage guests to talk to each other.
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