With the spaces in Ontario, we've worked together to leverage our numbers for collective buying for coffee.
And while really only some Toronto spaces take advantage of it (spaces in other cities indicated they were interested, but have something local that works for them) it's still working together with other spaces. We use Full of Beans here in Toronto, who roasts their own, and I approached the owner about wholesale pricing. She's thrilled to be able to offer her coffee in many coworking spaces, so she gave me some great prices, in a range depending on how many we purchase at a time. It can go down as low as $12/lb - not bad for fair trade organic coffee roasted and delivered within a day or two, while supporting a local business. All I did was propose it to the group (which was at our annual peer learning conference for CoworkingOntario) and some spaces came on board. I offered to manage the program, set up an order page, and sent it out to the group. I invoice them for the coffee, place the order, and deliver it or have them pick it up from my space. I'd say band together with your fellow space owners and operators and see how much coffee you go through in a week and shop around that data to roasters or coffee subscription services to see what sort of discount you can get collectively. r. *____________________rachel young*rac...@camaraderie.ca *We're located at 2241 Dundas St W, 3rd floor* *(between Bloor and Roncesvalles)* *Find us online:* Website/blog <http://camaraderie.ca> and Newsletter <http://bit.ly/camaraderienewsletter>, Twitter <http://twitter.com/camaraderie>, Facebook <http://bit.ly/9zv3Fx>, Google+ <http://bit.ly/CamaraderiePlus>, Yelp <http://bit.ly/CamaraderieYelp>, and LinkedIn <http://bit.ly/CamaraderieGroup> We're a proud member of CoworkingToronto <http://www.coworkingtoronto.ca/>, CoworkingOntario <http://coworkingontario.ca/>, and CoworkingCanada <http://www.coworkingcanada.ca/>! On 19 August 2014 09:48, George Aye <geo...@greatergoodstudio.com> wrote: > Dear coworkjng gurus, > > Our space in Chicago has been on a weekly subscription to Metropolis > coffee since we started 1.5 yrs ago. We've been ramping up our consumption > as we add more people and we're now level at 4 lbs/week for $60. We're at a > total headcount of 27 individuals. > > Anyone have any recommendations on a coffee broker or a wholesaler that > can get offer better pricing? Or simply suggestions on managing cost? > > Many thanks in advance! > > George > > Ps. Chicago has a strong coffee culture with metropolis and intelligentsia > being the two big roasters in town. Both are fantastic but expensive. > Switching to dunkin donuts for their beans is not a viable option and I > personally can't stand to drink it. > > George Aye > 773-263-2603 > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
