Reviresco Coffee Co. owners, from left, Steven Dalton, Melissa Dalton and Tim Bynum. (BizSense file)
A year in the making, a local coffee company’s new cafe and roastery is ready for its debut.
Reviresco Coffee Co. this week began roasting operations at 710 Lafayette St., where it also plans to open a cafe on Monday.
Co-owner Steven Dalton said the project, which was first announced last summer when the company was based in Lakeside, has been held back for about a year due to permitting delays.
But since then, what was originally to be a tasting room and grab-and-go spot has morphed into a cafe with indoor seating. Previously, Dalton floated a full cafe as a possible future expansion of the business.
“We thought we were going to take it a lot slower. As we were going through the special-use (permit) process interacting with the neighborhood, the demand for an actual sit-down coffee shop was high enough that we felt like we should go ahead and pursue the cafe,” Dalton said in an interview Tuesday.
He said the opening day had been held up due to various permitting delays, among them a special-use permit filed in the fall but that wasn’t OK’d by City Council until April. He declined to elaborate further about the delays.
The coffee roaster temporarily ceased operations from May to mid-July because it ran out of roasted beans before it was able to get the necessary approvals lined up to restart roasting in the new space.
Reviresco Coffee Co.’s business has primarily been direct-to-consumer sales of its packaged coffee. (Photo courtesy Reviresco)
The cafe’s initial hours of operation are planned to be 6:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The cafe will also feature art exhibition and retail spaces.
In addition to indoor seating for 10 people, Reviresco is also working on the creation of an outdoor seating area.
Dalton estimated that less than $50,000 had been invested in equipment, furniture and other expenses tied to the creation of the cafe.
Despite the delays, Dalton said he felt the coffee roaster had been able to maintain buzz around its upcoming cafe with regular social media posting, which over recent months has documented the company’s experience with permitting, buildout and other elements of the project.
“Consistent, daily, social media ensures your followers see what you’re doing. We always tried to do that. We also have the mindset that this is a neighborhood cafe and we wanted people to come along the ride with us. We never put up brown paper during the remodel. We wanted them to have a sense of involvement and engagement with the process,” he said.
Dalton co-owns the company with his wife, Melissa, and Tim Bynum. Dalton recently left his job as a high school teacher to focus on Reviresco, which primarily sells its packaged coffee direct to consumers online.
The company’s name is a Latin word that means renewal.
Reviresco Coffee Co. owners, from left, Steven Dalton, Melissa Dalton and Tim Bynum. (BizSense file)
A year in the making, a local coffee company’s new cafe and roastery is ready for its debut.
Reviresco Coffee Co. this week began roasting operations at 710 Lafayette St., where it also plans to open a cafe on Monday.
Co-owner Steven Dalton said the project, which was first announced last summer when the company was based in Lakeside, has been held back for about a year due to permitting delays.
But since then, what was originally to be a tasting room and grab-and-go spot has morphed into a cafe with indoor seating. Previously, Dalton floated a full cafe as a possible future expansion of the business.
“We thought we were going to take it a lot slower. As we were going through the special-use (permit) process interacting with the neighborhood, the demand for an actual sit-down coffee shop was high enough that we felt like we should go ahead and pursue the cafe,” Dalton said in an interview Tuesday.
He said the opening day had been held up due to various permitting delays, among them a special-use permit filed in the fall but that wasn’t OK’d by City Council until April. He declined to elaborate further about the delays.
The coffee roaster temporarily ceased operations from May to mid-July because it ran out of roasted beans before it was able to get the necessary approvals lined up to restart roasting in the new space.
Reviresco Coffee Co.’s business has primarily been direct-to-consumer sales of its packaged coffee. (Photo courtesy Reviresco)
The cafe’s initial hours of operation are planned to be 6:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The cafe will also feature art exhibition and retail spaces.
In addition to indoor seating for 10 people, Reviresco is also working on the creation of an outdoor seating area.
Dalton estimated that less than $50,000 had been invested in equipment, furniture and other expenses tied to the creation of the cafe.
Despite the delays, Dalton said he felt the coffee roaster had been able to maintain buzz around its upcoming cafe with regular social media posting, which over recent months has documented the company’s experience with permitting, buildout and other elements of the project.
“Consistent, daily, social media ensures your followers see what you’re doing. We always tried to do that. We also have the mindset that this is a neighborhood cafe and we wanted people to come along the ride with us. We never put up brown paper during the remodel. We wanted them to have a sense of involvement and engagement with the process,” he said.
Dalton co-owns the company with his wife, Melissa, and Tim Bynum. Dalton recently left his job as a high school teacher to focus on Reviresco, which primarily sells its packaged coffee direct to consumers online.
The company’s name is a Latin word that means renewal.
Isn’t that the Colonial Place neighborhood? Show them some love, not its adjacency to another neighborhood (that I also love!). 🙂
I live nearby. Didn’t know we had a neighborhood name (who assigns those anyway?) but I agree. Don’t refer to this location as adjacent anywhere. After all it is also the location of Stella’s in several forms!