An award-winning retail and wholesale coffee roaster with Kansas roots, PT's was a pioneer of the Direct Trade model and has been at the forefront of specialty coffee for years. Find out where we've been and where we're going. We roast to order five days a week and ship same day, reaching most of the U.
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Coffee Bestsellers. More from this collection. Browse All Coffee. According to co-owner Jeff Taylor, PT's story starts in the early s when he moved back to Topeka from Lewistown, Idaho, where he would often visit a coffee cart down the street from his workplace. Upon his return to Topeka, Taylor noticed a lack of specialty coffees and coffee shops in the capital city — so he decided to change that. So I did. More: These Topeka restaurants offer outdoor seating and patio dining for those wanting fresh air with the good eats.
This year, it earned another accolade, as it was named one of the " 25 Best Coffee Roasters in America " by online publication Gear Patrol — an honor PT's also received in But as Taylor and Polzin point out, PT's success today is a long way from where the company started, and it hasn't been a straightforward journey. When they first opened PT's, Polzin and Taylor both had other jobs, and they didn't quit those gigs immediately to pursue coffee full time. PT's first location was at S.
Taylor said the only reason PT's ended up there was because a bar-and-grill owner at that location had more space than he needed. We took it because he had tables and chairs we could use.
Everything was already there. Plumbing was already there. All we had to do was build a bar. The shop slowly gained popularity, and a couple years later, the pair decided to open a second location in Fleming Place, at S.
We were winging it every step of the way. Up to that point, Taylor and Polzin had been so focused on opening and operating the two shops that they hadn't put much thought into the type of coffee they were serving. So when he says, 'I was at your coffee shop last night,' I thought: 'Well, great. What did you think? More: Blue Jazz Coffee Roasters offers an inside look into its facility and coffee tastings.
Taylor was surprised, as PT's often had lines out the door at that time. But the customer's comment led him to think more about PT's primary product. He and Polzin saved up for about four months, and in , they bought their own coffee roaster. Taylor said he then spent about two years learning how to roast coffee beans.
He started doing more research on coffee beans and the roasting process and wound up booking himself and Polzin a trip to Guatemala. Taylor said he realized on that Guatemala trip that coffee prices worldwide were so low that coffee farmers were going bankrupt trying to grow and distribute their product.
They weren't harvesting it properly," Taylor said. About that time, an international competition called Cup of Excellence was started that would change the future of the coffee industry, and Taylor and Polzin were early supporters. If farmers were ever going to survive in Latin America and actually all over the world — if coffee was going to survive as a product — we had to increase the price.
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