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Jeff Katris

Jeff is Vice President for Design & Communications (D&C). He works on strategy and the brand. He likes his coffee, morning jog, and sunglasses... at night.

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Take a Thermos of Coffee into the Forest and Cook Something Up

Stephen is driving.  He's a farmer.  Heather and Brad are up front, too.  They raise pigs.  Throw the Gimme guy in back.  He'll be okay.

Stephen is driving. He's a farmer. Heather and Brad are up front, too. They raise pigs. Throw the Gimme guy in back. He'll be okay.

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A Shot of Coffee You Really Don't Want

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A finance guy from the Cheese Belt read our bit about coffee coolers.  He was inspired to conduct a few hours of followup research -- on the clock, I presume, since finance guys have time to burn these days.  This thoughtful reader then submitted intriguing images from an 1896 regimental history.

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A Study in Steel and Hair: Tomas Reyer in His Machine Shop

Drive your Toyota like a jackrabbit.  Gun it at the greenlight, catch air off a speedbump, carve donuts in your neighbor's lawn.  Do it 15 hours a day, 365 days a year.  How's that little Corolla feeling now?

Drive your Toyota like a jackrabbit. Gun it at the greenlight, catch air off a speedbump, carve donuts in your neighbor's lawn. Do it 15 hours a day, 365 days a year. How's that little Corolla feeling now?

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One of These Coffee Gift Boxes Might be Yours

box-stack.jpgBum-Pa-Dum!  Sound of trumpets.  The first wave of Coffee Gift Boxes is on the move.  If someone ordered a box for you this past weekend, one of these puppies is yours.  And it's already on the way.  If you're certain that nobody ordered a box for you... get one yourself!

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What Does 'Coffee Coolers' Bring to Mind?

coffee_coolers.jpgMaybe you think of foofy drinks.  Or you geek out like some latter day microscopist.  Ooh, I know:  you think of plug-n-play gadgets.  But me, I think of Bartles & Jaymes.  I was programmed in the '80s.  My automatic response to the word "coolers" has everything to do with those old guys catching a fruity buzz, and nothing to do with... war.

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Sustainable Style on State Street

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Nothing croons "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" quite like a throwback Singer.

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Skaters, Bikers Set Up Camp O'Ramp Next to Gimme

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What's the proper verbiage?  Diamondz!  Dag!  East Shore Skate Park is now open, right out behind our Lansing espresso bar in a reinvented factory space.  I'm definitely a poser with a camera so I had a hamster of a time shooting x-games in the dimly lit warehouse.  The young gent pictured above and his bros kept flying by my face in the dark.  I promised Ben that I would come back in a couple weeks to capture some serious shreddage for a photo gallery.  Meanwhile I'll try to learn the camera.  They'll add heat and continue the buildout.

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Gimme Art: The Illustrations of Aaron Kuder, Driver

Aaron is our trusty delivery driver by day... and comic artist extraordinaire by night.

Aaron is our trusty delivery driver by day... and comic artist extraordinaire by night.

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If It's Not Spanglish, What Is It?

colombia_08.jpgI recently plugged Mimi's photos of Mesa de los Santos.  Halfway through her gallery, you might trip over this image.  I did.  On first glance I wondered if Mimi had discovered an exotic rendering of our brand name.

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A New Traveling Exhibit on Coffee

colombia_14.jpgIf you haven't browsed Mimi Wysong's splendid photos from Mesa de los Santos, Colombia, here are the photo gallery and travel report.  Mimi has a naturalist's eye to match her knack with a camera.  She also manages our Cayuga Street espresso bar — the original Gimme location and a perennial favorite of Ithacans.

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Neighborhood Store Good for Families, Planet Earth

What's good for the goose is good for the goslings. Gently used duds get the kids looking sharp, are easy on the wallet, and make minimal impact on the environment.

What's good for the goose is good for the goslings. Gently used duds get the kids looking sharp, are easy on the wallet, and make minimal impact on the environment.

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'The New York Times' Touts Our Favorite Russian Import

NYT_2008.jpgHow often is it that a barista gets a full-page interview in "The New York Times"?  Aleks Shineleva got hers in the cool new column Entry Level that profiles people in early stages of their work lives.  Aleks is the manager-in-training at our Brooklyn espresso bar.

New York Boss Moonlights as 'Barista Magazine' Cover Guy

mike_barista_mag.jpgMike White, our NYC Regional Manager and a true Gimme veteran, appears in the current issue of "Barista Magazine."  Mike's story with Gimme began at our first location and spans 8 years, 5 cafes, and 3 cities.

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Just Me and The Beans: Flamekeeper Featured in 'Roast Magazine'

Roast_Cover.jpgColleen Anunu of Gimme! Coffee explained her love of roasting in a recent tell-all exposé: "It's a pretty positive head space to be in, just me and the beans. Beans don't write comment cards, I like to hang with them."

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'Saveur' Magazine: Gimme Sumatra is Deeply Flavorful, Best in Class

saveur_cover_full.jpgWe got a call from "Saveur" this summer.  They said, send us some beans.  What kind, I asked.  Something good for breakfast, they said.   With nothing else to go on, I queried our coffee strategists.  They debated quickly and chose a half-dozen bags to send.  Weeks later, we got word that the editors loved our Sumatra Iskandar.

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Today in History: Espresso's New Wave Hits 'The New York Times,' 2006

NYT_2006.jpg Two intense years have passed since Peter Meehan reported on the arrival of specialty coffee in New York City -- a few decades after the niche industry got its start on the West Coast.  Gimme and our peers have been hammering away at "new wave" practices, with special attention to barista craft, artisan roasting, sustainability, and working closer with farmers.

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Searching for Rainbows, Master Roaster Cups Rwanda Bourbon Bufcafe

rwanda_article5.jpgHere's a rare look into the coffee mind of John Gant, Master Roaster at Gimme! Coffee.  John's signature style of working with coffee -- roasting, tasting, tweaking, and communicating the nuances -- goes on full display in this cupping report that he penned about our Rwanda Bourbon Bufcafe.  It's a joy to read John's expressive, exuberant prose.

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'Barista Manual 1.0'

There's precious content inside, but can “Barista Manual 1.0” take the punishment of fieldwork?  Before getting our stamp of approval, the “Manual” got a whoopin' in our espresso lab.  Here, a 30-second blast from the steamwand.

There's precious content inside, but can “Barista Manual 1.0” take the punishment of fieldwork? Before getting our stamp of approval, the “Manual” got a whoopin' in our espresso lab. Here, a 30-second blast from the steamwand.

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