CoffeeCo.com.au
Title
Coffee for Connoisseurs
Description
Coffee for Connoisseurs started life as a ‘Coffee Shop With A Difference’ in 1984. At that time Melbourne was well served with espresso coffee bars, but there were few places where you could buy fresh beans, and even fewer (none, as far as I knew) where you could choose to have any of the beans on offer individually brewed.
Having seen just this sort of setup in Japan, where the brewing was invariably done using Coffee Syphons, I pinched the idea wholesale. After three years we had a second shop running, and things were looking pretty good, but..!
My wife was expecting our son, and one of our landlords, inflamed by record stock market turnovers and interest rates, was graduating in greed and bastardry. I needed more hours in the day, so we said goodbye to our nastier landlord and consolidated into a single shop. We even kept 80% of the old shop's clientel. Just as well, because the stock market crashed, and the next few years were really tough. Then things picked up again, but..!
