Bean & Bean Coffee Roasters

Overview

Bean & Bean is a mother-daughter Q Grader operation founded in 2008 by Rachel and Jiyoon Han, micro-batch roasting at a Queens roastery and running four cafes across NYC and northern New Jersey. The line is USDA Organic across the board, with more than half of total sourcing coming from women-led or woman-owned farms — a gender-equity sourcing mandate that's operationalized rather than marketed.

Known for

• Mother-daughter Q Grader founding team
• Among the earliest NYC operations micro-batch roasting on-site at retail (FiDi, 2008)
• USDA Organic across the line
• Gender-equity sourcing — 50%+ from women-led or woman-owned farms
• Sloth Institute partnership (1% of online bean sales to sloth conservation)

Why it matters

Mother-daughter Q Grader teams are vanishingly rare in US specialty, and Bean & Bean's gender-equity mandate is one of the few sourcing programs in the country that ties the percentage to its supply chain rather than treating it as marketing language. The original 2008 Financial District location was also among NYC's earliest on-site micro-batch roasting cafes.

Production

destoning

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head roaster

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color sorting

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roaster machine

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filter equipment

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cupping frequency

daily roast schedule

roastery location

Little Neck, Queens, NY

espresso equipment

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annual volume tonnes

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Café

FiDi (Manhattan, original); Chelsea (Manhattan); Little Neck (Queens, roastery + cafe); Fort Lee (NJ)

Recognitions

• Compass Group / Foodbuy Diverse Supplier Accelerator (2023)
• Barista Jamie — US Brewers Cup Nationals competitor

Sources

• beannbeancoffee.com · meet us
• drinktrade.com · get to know bean and bean coffee roasters
• linkedin.com · beannbeancoffee
• instagram.com · beannbeancoffee