Caffé Vita Coffee Roasting Company, commonly known as Caffé Vita, is a coffee

Coffee

Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...

 roasting company in Seattle, Washington. Part of the third wave coffee

Third Wave Coffee

The Third Wave of Coffee refers to a current movement to produce high-quality coffee, and consider coffee as an artisanal foodstuff, like wine, rather than a commodity, like wheat...

 movement, Caffé Vita has been named one of the top ten places "to get the best coffee in America." They source their coffee directly from farmers in Guatemala, Brazil, Ethiopia, Panama, and Sumatra.

Caffé Vita was founded in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood in 1995 by Mike McConnell McConnell was an early proponent for developing direct relationshipswith coffee farmers, and bypassing the fair trade coffee trade.

Locations

Caffé Vita's location at 1005 East Pike Street, Seattle, houses their flagship cafe, their roasterie, and company offices. The company operates four other cafes around Seattle, one in Olympia

Olympia, Washington

Olympia is the capital city of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat of Thurston County. It was incorporated on January 28, 1859. The population was 46,478 at the 2010 census...

, Washington, and one in Portland

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

, Oregon. Caffé Vita also supplies coffee to cafes, restaurants, and upscale hotels.

Community service

In 2009, Caffé Vita partnered with Portland's p:ear, a homeless youth mentoring program, to create the p:ear Barista School. Caffé Vita provides equipment, coffee beans, milk, and training that allow the school to take homeless youth through a 8-week program that give them the necessary skills and experience to get a job as a barista. Also in 2009, Caffé Vita underwrote and organized "GIVE Seattle": a 36-track compilation record, featuring artists such as Ben Gibbard

Ben Gibbard

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 and Fleet Foxes

Fleet Foxes

Fleet Foxes are a folk rock band which formed in Seattle, Washington. They are signed to the Sub Pop and Bella Union record labels. The band came to prominence in 2008 with the release of their second EP, Sun Giant, and their debut full length album Fleet Foxes...

to benefit four local food banks and Arts Corps.