out would in turn be passed on again to many different “well deserving” people by the original recipients. He explained that the feeling of gifting this card and acknowledging someone’s “good deed” was better than walking into their store and claiming the free coffee for themselves. Giving is of course better than receiving! What a wonderful world we live in, where the majority of people are still good eggs!!!
take our coffee structure very seriously, we have chosen to sit somewhere in the middle”. With a contented smile. Henry... “This has been beautiful, who wants a hug?” So, we hugged... a great hug.
What does the future hold for TGB? To start with a bigger roasting plant with a new Loring Roaster! They are keeping their current 12kg Probat too, which will be used for the more special single origins on offer. Henry is like an excited child on the eve of Christmas, speaking animatedly about how the Loring will allow the business to roast the same amount of coffee in a day that the Probat roasts in a whole week! So, the investment goes hand in hand with a bigger push for new and more wholesale clients, spreading their two mainstay coffee blends, two single origins and a number of filters in even more locations. They are also continuing to work on many more sustainable processes including the adoption of a new approach to decaf which will allow for onsite decaffeination, thus reducing the carbon footprint which Swiss water process can typically increase. Keeping their coffee as locally produced as possible is of the utmost importance to TGB. To finish I asked Henry how they see themselves? In typical Henry style he replied… “We don’t take ourselves seriously, but we 12
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