What We Do
Our current goal is to help cafes improve margins by escaping wholesale while at the same time having more control over their product. To do this, we work with them on sourcing their own inventory of green coffee, train them on roasting, and grant access to the Ternary Coffee Roastery at their convenience.
From here, they can roast beans for behind the bar or stock their retail shelves.
This is not wholesaling from Ternary and never will be. We expect our partners to manage their own inventory, roasting, packaging, etc. By doing things this way, our partners save an average of $6/lb on bean costs while at the same time benefiting further from the marketing boost that comes from cafes roasting their own coffee.
Yes, there’s a catch.
This is a pay-it-forward collective. Ternary is uniquely positioned to offer its infrastructure to the NE Ohio coffee community for free, but only under the condition that our partners have or are willing to implement something that benefits their local community.
The goal is not to help anyone expand into a grocery store brand or start wholesaling out of our roastery. When roasting with us, you have an opportunity to reinvest your savings into your business, be it through wages, infrastructure, equipment, or whatever else a savings of ~$6/lb could go to.
We just ask that you find a way to pass it on somehow.
The Ternary Coffee Collective is an early-stage project looking to strengthen independent coffee businesses through shared resources, knowledge, and opportunity.
No one person knows everything, and no one succeeds alone.
By creating connections between coffee professionals, the Collective is already helping its members access the tools and support they need to grow while contributing their own strengths back to the community.
Our Partners
For these partners, their kindness was in place before Ternary opened its doors to them and was an integral part of their mission well before we became acquainted.
You can thank them for inspiring the kindness forward approach of our collective!
AffoGATO Cat Cafe
Since opening, AffoGATO has cared for and facilitated the adoptions of over 1700 cats, with many more to find great homes in the future.
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Street Brew Coffee
Every bag of Street Brew Coffee sold helps fund programs that directly support people experiencing homelessness in Toronto, Canada.
Roaster and Coffee Trailer
CafeAna’s Attic Coffee and Books
Along with serving as a community hub for underrepresented groups, Ana’s has a Kindness Wall where people can buy a stranger a cup of coffee or receive one.
Everyone wants their cafe to be a place of community and collaboration, but that’s not always possible when just keeping the lights on gets more expensive every day.
While our Collective is primarily focused on roasting at this time, we’d like to create more opportunities for members to learn from one another and support one another. That could mean training, consulting, pallet sharing, collective purchasing, warehousing, equipment sharing, or simply connecting the right people at the right time.
Let’s Work Together.
Right now our focus is on supporting existing businesses so we ask that