Coffee Without Compromise.
Coffee Without Compromise.
Hi, I'm John Bolton, and I own Salt Lake Roasting Company. It's been around longer than I can even imagine. My wildest dreams has been around since 1981. I was a young hipster that worked up in Snowbird, and after I finished work at 11 o'clock at night, I'd go down and roast in a little warehouse in Sandy, and finish about one in the morning, and cram all the coffee in my car, drive home, go to bed, wake up in the morning and deliver it. Some mornings I'd wake up every 300 pounds of coffee in my car. When I opened the door, it was so pungent with coffee, I could feel I wanted to learn about the people that grew the coffee. I wanted to learn about the culture behind the coffee, and I had the ability to do that because I was single at the time, so I would travel with a backpack and go to these countries and live where the people grew the coffee. Stay in hotels that cost $3 a night, or in people's houses that would put me out there. So I got to experience their lifestyle pretty much at the same level that they operated at, and it was a great opportunity and privilege for me, and I was able to establish a lot of long-term relationships in the process. The people I've worked with over the last 42 years have been more important to the growing and prospering of Salt Lake Roasting Company than I could ever have had the opportunity to work with hundreds of people at that time. In the background, in the kitchen, in roasting, in baristas, that have been the major contributors to what the success of that, all the personalities, their hard work and commitment have made it all possible. There's just been so many wonderful customers over the years. One of my favorite things to do is, you know, you see somebody come off to the counter, and it's h You see what they're wearing and how they carry themselves, and you try to guess what their occupation is, and then you start talking to them and you realize how totally wrong you were. Over the years I've learned that everyone has an amazing story to tell, and if you take the time to listen and learn, you have this opportunity to be a part of their story. And, And as things have gone on, I've gotten far more comfortable with the fact that it's going to work, and people It was 1980, before I got into coffee, and I was still sheffing up at the snowboard, and were having a Bible study at my house, and we had an eclectic group of ski b He was answering a question that I'd heard asked before, and I was kind of doodling while he was talking, and my doodle turned into the logo for Salt Lake Roasting Company, and the rest is history.
