When you choose Metropolis, you become for better or worse, a part of our family. Choosing the right roaster is critical, so make sure to ask us hard questions. We promise to answer honestly, and without sales spin. That is how we do business, and how we learn to do it better.
Metropolis Coffee Company is a father and son owned coffee house and roasteria on Chicago's north side. We specialize in high quality small batch craft roasted coffees, with an emphasis on sustainability. We roast our coffee by hand in a steel drum machine. This method allows us to better bring forth what we call 'the thing in itself'. That is each individual coffee's inherent character. We do this time and time again, consistently roasting each batch by people that call themselves 'the keepers of the flame'.
We are wholesalers who understand retailers, as we operate an nationally award winning coffee house ourselves. Through innovative and quality approaches to coffee, tea, equipment, training, and consulting, we hope to help you produce the best coffee and tea available, everytime. Our service is personally tailored to your business, and we promise you freedom from bureaucracy .
If you are interested in our wholesale program, please contact Trey directly at:
Trey: 312-933-3863, or trey@metropoliscoffee.com
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Coffee, first and foremost. We source the best coffees that we can find, roast them to order, and deliver or ship them within 24 hours of the roast. We take this seriously. With a sense of humor of course, but seriously just the same.
Complex and intriguing, the world of tea is at least as storied and traditional if not more so than coffee. We offer quality wholeleaf tea, sourced both from single estates as well as blends from multiple estates. We also have a tea bag program, featuring Two Leaves and a Bud bagged teas.
We sell, lease, and service the best brewing equipment available. Our products include La Marzocco, Fetco, Faema, Kees Van Der Westen, Mazzer, and many others. We provide 24/7 technical support as well as a fleet of 24/7 on-call service technicians.
Our training program is innovative in the industry. Plan on a lot of time for training, as we walk you through not only the steps for producing quality coffee and tea, but also the who, what, when, where, and why behind the methodology. We view the person who actualy makes the drink as one of the most important people in the chain, as they stand as the last link before the customer. From farm to cup, the craft of the barista is not to be taken lightly. We also provide documentation so that you can establish consistency and standards throughout your staff.
Though it is not something that we charge for, we believe that if we can help you with some of the details of conceiving, designing, and running a successful specialty coffee and tea business, you can spend more time obsessing over the coffee! We can all be more successful through this approach. We can look over your plans, help with specifics on equipment choice and placement, bar design, menu development, customer flow management, staffing, and ordering. Just ask. We can help.