Dazbog Coffee Co. has opened a new store on the
Metropolitan State University of Denver campus.
Located across from the Student Success Building on Auraria Parkway, the coffee shop is in a 1,350-square-foot free-standing building.
“It’s got all of the latest and greatest branding for our stores and lots of seating for the kids, even though the footprint of the building is not that big,” says Leonid Yuffa, who founded Dazbog with his brother Anatoly in 1996.
Dazbog also established a scholarship that will help one or two Metro State business students pay tuition. A portion of the coffee shop's gross sales will support the scholarship endowment fund. The scholarships will be awarded beginning next fall.
“The best thing about this university and this campus is it’s really the most affordable education in the state,” Yuffa says. “And most of the students work their way through school and stay in Colorado after they graduate. We really want to promote those students who have a desire to work in business, whether it is for themselves or others, and have a desire to get an education.”
About half of the employees at the campus coffee shop attend Metro State. A total of 80 percent attend one of the three schools on the Auraria campus.
Denver-based Dazbog is Colorado’s largest independent coffee company has more than 30 shops across the country. The company also sells its coffee in grocery stores such as Vitamin Cottage and King Soopers.
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