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Seattle Coffee Works (SCW) is a third-wave coffee company based in Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington. The business was established in 2006 and operates three coffee shops. In addition to the flagship in downtown Seattle, SCW has outposts in Ballard and South Lake Union, called Ballard Coffee Works and Cascade Coffee Works, respectively.
Espresso Vivace was founded in 1988 by former Boeing engineer David C. Schomer and Digital Equipment Corporation mainframe technician Geneva Sullivan, who were married at that time. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Espresso Vivaces's first incarnation was a coffee cart at 5th and Union, serving mainly financial industry workers, whom Schomer says did not ...
Ghost Alley Espresso is a coffee shop located at Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington, United States. [1] The business operates in a former service room for bathroom attendants on Post Alley , close to the Gum Wall .
It was founded in 1971 in Pike Place Market as a roaster, but only later became an espresso bar. In 1984 ownership of the company changed and Howard Schultz led a massive international expansion of the company. [13] In 2003, Starbucks acquired pioneering Seattle roaster Seattle's Best Coffee (SBC, originally Stewart Brothers' Coffee). [12]
The space was used for retail sales, a bank, and as a funeral home and mortuary until 1975 when it became Café Allegro and the first espresso bar in Seattle. [2] Founder Dave Olsen chose the location because it was in an alley opposite the busiest entrance to the University of Washington campus. [3] Allegro is also the oldest coffeehouse in ...
Quest for the Best. Kraft introduced its iconic macaroni and cheese boxed dinner way back in 1937, but these days, Kraft faces plenty of competition from grocery store versions of this family ...
Schomer thought that when he opened Vivace in 1988, he had "missed the peak" of the espresso explosion, when in fact his scientific exploration of extraction methods was not happening elsewhere. Besides training hundreds of baristas who went on to influence coffee shops across the country, Schomer self published a book on espresso techniques in ...
The original Monorail Espresso. On December 1, 1980, Seattle proprietor Chuck Beek set up an espresso cart at Westlake Mall under the Seattle Center Monorail as an experiment to see whether there was a market for espresso sold on the street rather than in a traditional coffeehouse. [1] The permit for the location at the time was $10. [2]