S.F.’s oldest coffee roaster is a ‘well-kept secret.’ A new owner wants to change that
San Francisco’s oldest independent coffee roasting company, Graffeo Coffee, has a new owner. Walter A. Haas III, 40, a scion of the family behind Levi Strauss & Co., is the new proprietor of the ...
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6th-generation San Franciscan from billionaire family takes over city's oldest coffee roastery
Around that time, Repetto happened upon Mike Sivetz, an Oregon chemical engineer who specialized in coffee processing and had pioneered what is now called fluid bed hot air roasting. Repetto was ...