Roast Coffee Company is looking for THREE rock star baristas for traveling event and festal work.  This is the ultimate summer barista position!  You will be traveling to events and festivals around Wisconsin to serve exceptional coffee.  You will be responsible to travel to the event, set up the kiosk, work the event, and pack up at the end of the night.  This position will require you to travel to the event, work long hours, in summer weather, at different locations, and on the weekends.  It will be an intense position, but one that will be extremely fun!

You’re an ideal candidate if…

…you currently work or have worked in a coffee shop.  You love the interaction with customers, creating relationships, and talking all things coffee

…You have a high level of energy.  You get excited for the opportunity to ensure that every customer will be blown away with our coffee

…You have a strong willingness to learn and quickly adapt to change

…You are able to perform under pressure and thrive in fast-paced environments.  You are efficient and never show your cage is rattled

Job Requirements:

You MUST have a vehicle that is reliable and has a hitch

You must be able to work on the weekends and long hours

You must have barista experience

First event will take place on June 18^th.  You will be trained the Roast way to make drinks prior to the first event.  Pay is dependent on experience and you will be reimbursed for mileage.

If you believe you are the person that fits this description, please email your resume with the subject line ‘Hitched Barista’ to ryan (at) roastcoffeecompany (dot) com.  You will not be considered if you email does not contain this subject line.

Over the past few months, we’ve made a lot of donations to organizations located in our neighborhood. We’re proud of the work that these organizations do and we like to help when we can. We don’t donate to every organization or event that crosses our desk…partly because of time, but mostly because our budget. Here’s a partial list of some of the orgs we’ve donated to:

UWM Center for Urban Initiatives and Research
Relevant Instruction for Successful Employment
UWM Department of Recruitment & Outreach
UWM Student Affairs
Pull Start Diesel Trivia Team
City Year Milwaukee Teacher Appreciation
MPS Hartford University School for Urban Exploration
UWM Mortar Board
UWM Engineering Without Borders
American Institute of Architectural Students

We are always willing to help your organization out. If your organization is in need of a donation, drop us a letter and we’ll see what we can do.

Roast is back to regular hours!

M-F 6:30am-9:00pm
Sat-Sun 8:00am-9:00pm

Have a good first day of school

Come in and check out the new installation! Looks pretty spectacular, thanks to the Arch. Grad Students!

DOUBLE PUNCH JANUARY TOO!
Also, hours from Jan. 3rd – Jan. 23rd will be as follows:
Mon-Thurs: 6:30am-8pm
Fri: 6:30am-5pm
Sat-Sun: 8am-5pm

Just until UW-Milwaukee gets school started up again for the spring semester. Hope to see you all soon and often!

Hours for the holiday week will be as follows:

Dec. 23rd 6:30am-5pm
Dec. 24th-Jan. 2nd - CLOSED FOR REMODELING

Jan. 3rd – 6:30am  Reopen!

Come check us out after the new year to experience the new look of Roast! Be ready to be amazed.

Come on in and take a break from studying to give your life some much needed culture and listen to some beautiful tunes!

If you’ve heard the buzz, Roast is getting a new ceiling installation!  It’s a big deal…a very big deal!

Grit Tank, a UWM graduate level architectural class, has been designing and building a permanent installation to go around the bar in the cafe.  It’s cool, super impressive, and looks amazing!  They have been putting a tremendous amount of time and energy into this project and it shows.

Their work has gained some unbelievable exposure for the UWM architecture program, the school, themselves, and Roast.  They’ve had reviews with the who’s who of the architectural world.  On December 16, a panel of judges is being flown in from various cities throughout the US to judge them.  All because of the work they are doing for Roast!

We’re planning our own get-down to celebrate the installation.  Roast will be closed December 24-January 3 so that we can do the installation.  During that time, we’re doing some additional work to the café to complement the new installations.

If you want to get a sneak peak, you can check it out through December 26 at BYO Studio.  They are located at:

2246 S Kinnickinnic Ave

MKE, WI  53207

Roast is going BIG in 2011!

Yesterday, we shared with you gifts under $15.00.  Today, it’s all about gifts under $25.00.  We have 3 holiday gift boxes worth talking about.

First is the Sustainability Sampler.  Sustainability is all the rage.  This box includes coffees that are direct trade and direct sourced…they can all be traced back to the farm.  The coffees are:

El Salvador Finca San Jose
Organic Sumatra Lintong Dolok Sanggul
Nicarargua Los Milagros
Colombia Reserva Del Diablo

Make someone happy for $22.95!

Second is the Holiday Sampler.  This includes some top notch coffees from award winning farms.

Guatemala Finca El Injerto – Won numerous ‘Best Coffee Awards’

Costa Rica Brumas Del Zurqui – Best Coffee in all of Costa Rica in 2006.

Rwanda Coopac Coop – ‘Cup of Excellence’ winner

Holiday Blend (Rwanda & Nicaragua) – Perfectly balanced to create a light-body with lingering dark notes and hints of caramel and spice

Spread the love for $22.95

The last is the Roast Home Sampler.  Enjoy a pound of your favorite Roast coffee and two diner mugs.  Perfect for catching up with friends or family over the holiday.  Priced right at $21.95.

If you can’t decide, buy a $25.00 gift card…it’s sure to make someone happy!

‘Tis the season and we have your coffee related gifts for under $15, 25, and 50. Check out these gifts for under $15.00!

Support Your Local Coffee Shop – $14.95
Roast mug and $10.00 Gift Card

Roast Trio – $12.95
Roast mug, chocolate covered espresso beans, and
frac pack of Holiday Blend

Roast Duo – $10.95
Roast mug and chocolate covered espresso beans

Roast T-Shirt – $10.95
Holiday Special! After the holiday’s, they will be $12.95

$10.00 Roast Gift Card

Great gifts for your roomies, co-workers, or family!

At Roast, we do things to position ourselves ahead of our competition. We focus on quality and freshness and I’d like to share two things that will make a big difference!

Sassy Cow Creamery – Our new Milk Supplier!

Aside from coffee, the number one item we buy each week is milk. We use hundreds of gallons of milk each month and price is constantly fluctuating. We started looking for a new supplier when we had trouble controlling our costs.

We found Sassy Cow Creamery, a local company, and were instantly impressed. The big selling point for us was Sassy Cow has never used bovine growth hormone (rBGH). As we started doing our research on rBGH, we determined pretty quickly that it wasn’t a good thing. When you taste milk that contains rBGH and milk that doesn’t, there is a big difference. Milk that is free of rBGH tastes far better. We realized right away we needed to switch from our conventional milk to Sassy Cow.

Our first delivery will be this week. Come on in and try your favorite drink with Sassy Cow…you’ll taste the difference.

Sweet Water Organics Field Greens

We went to Farm Aid this past October and Sweet Water was there. We’re friends of Sweet Water and they’re friends of Roast. We started having a conversation about using their organic field greens in the café and they dropped off some samples. When we tasted it we said, “Yup, time to switch.”

Here’s Sweet Water’s process: Grow organic lettuce. Harvest it. Dunk it in cold-water. Deliver to Roast. That’s it.

Now think about the process of our commercial grade field greens provider: Grow lettuce in some other state. Harvest it. Send it down a conveyer belt to be washed. Package and Box it. Load it on pallet with 500 other boxes of the same stuff. Pack it onto a semi truck. Travel 500-2,500 miles to warehouse drop point. Put it on another semi to be delivered to local warehouse. Put it on another truck to be delivered to Roast. Um, wow.

We hope you’re excited as we are about the new additions. Both suppliers are super high quality, local, and super fresh. It’s a good fit for Roast and the customers we serve.

Now come support your local coffee shop!