UNION Coffee Founder: Pioneering the Coffee Culture in the UK (it all started in a Garden Shed)

Published: Dec. 4, 2023, 4 p.m.

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Imagine walking down a street today.

No Starbucks
No Pret A Manger.
No Costa.
No Cafe Nero.
No GAIL\\u2019s.
No McDonalds coffee

No coffee.

Imagine a world with coffee?

As an ardent coffee fiend, I couldn\\u2019t live without it.

Rewind to 1986.

Our scone-scoffing, beer-boshing, tea-guzzling Britain was crowned the \\u201cGraveyard of Coffee\\u201d.

A slumpy-grumpy stupor.

If you wanted a cuppa joe, you\\u2019d have to go to swanky-hotel.

Then. Thank heavens.

Two mad scientists. Steven Macatonia and Jeremy Torz. Had just returned slurping up the coffee movement in San Fransisco.

They started UNION and the coffee movement from their Mum's garden shed.

No Union Hand-Roasted Coffee. No Starbucks. No Starbucks. No Coffee movement.\\xa0

The coffee you drank this morning. You owe a great deal to Jeremy and Stephen\\xa0

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