Allegro Coffee will open its first freestanding micro-roasting company on Tennyson Street in Denver's Berkeley neighborhood.
Allegro Coffee Roasters (ACR) is slated to open in November in an old hardware store
The flagship store boasts a 30-foot bar and comfortable indoor and outdoor seating. Beans will be roasted in small batches onsite within sight of the coffee bar in a gas-fired Loring drum roaster. Twelve of the 19 coffees at ACR Tennyson will be hand-packed and sold at local Whole Foods Markets. Allegro will brew its specialty blends for patrons in-house and offer them to Whole Foods customers.
"Allegro Coffee Co. has been in wholesale for the past 30 years, and we've always been an industry leader in equitable and direct sourcing,” says Tara Cross, the company's director of marketing. "Since 1997, when Whole Foods purchased Allegro, our team has become experts in retail operations and coffee bar management. Opening ACR gives us an opportunity to take the Allegro experience to a new level."
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