Guest Roasting

Explore, discover and share new flavours with your customers.

In a saturated market where there is no shortage of cafes to choose from, it can be quite hard to stand out. Guest roasting provides an opportunity to offer something a little more unique to help you differentiate yourself from competition and add value to your customers at the same time.

Give your customers the variety they need to stay curious and interested in your cafe. Choose fresh and exciting coffees on rotation and make a statement. Separate yourself from the crowd and attract a new audience. Supplement your offering with coffee that will leave people speechless.

All the benefits, less the commitment.

Let's guest roast!

We love partnering with cafes that share the same values as us: share delicious coffee with as many people as possible. As a partner in the guest roasting program, you’ll have access to the following:

What do you get with our guest roaster program

Specialty coffee Blends

Blackbird, Libertango, African mailman, corcovado

We’ve spent years behind the machine, in the roastery and on the floor getting feedback and developing blends that suit both the traditional and progressive market. Our stock ranges from specialty blends that have more body, to blends that are lighter and sweeter, all with the goal to offer something for every kind of coffee drinker.

Micro-lots (Single Origin)

Ethiopia, Peru, colombia, brazil, ecuador

We work hard to source and maintain relationships with a variety of farmers that provide memorable and exciting coffees that make a statement not only on the cupping table, but to customers too. Like with all of our other coffees, we are dedicated to making positive changes, compromising on nothing and settling for nothing less than speciality.

Special reserve

Ninety Plus, El Vergel, La Palma El Tucan and Granje Paraíso 92 and Pillcocaja in Ecuador.

Our passion for coffee extends beyond what is commonly available and into exotic, experimental coffee beans that are sold very exclusively. We offer this not because it is exclusive, but because we are fascinated with the development of coffee and want to share it and develop the industry. Partnering with world leaders in coffee innovation that shatter the status quo.

Equipment

v60, kalilta, batch brewers

The demand for filter coffee is increasing rapidly, which means that having access to great equipment is even more important than ever before. We don’t want to let a lack of equipment stop cafe owners from meeting the demands of the specialty market. We also seek to make it a little easier by providing equipment and training to ensure you can adequately meet the demand by offering a comprehensive and respectable coffee program.

barista training

espresso, manual brew and more

It’s not a typo: barista training is included in our guest roasting programme. We do this because we believe that great coffee deserves to be put on a pedestal, so we work hard to ensure that we keep it there. In all things we work towards being excellent and ensuring consistency, so we do everything we can to make sure our wholesale partners have what they need to serve coffee at a high standard.

As much as we love experimenting with coffee, we love teaching people about it as well. Our skilled and experienced trainers are friendly and flexible and will deliver barista training in your cafe or at our training studios.

Merch

a-frames, hats, beanies, shirts, caps and more

Show your customers how passionate you are and serve great coffee in style. Get the kit that will help you serve coffee and make a statement.

competitive pricing

nothing fishy, just honesty.

All of this at no extra cost. We believe in transparency in not only how we source coffee, but across all parts of our business. As a cafe, whether you purchase one bag or ten, you still qualify for wholesale prices across our range of products.

Discover and offer something a little different. Share delicious coffee with as many people as possible.

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Away with boredom. In with variety and choice.

Working with a guest roaster provides cafe owners with the freedom and flexibility they need to grow and expand.

We are all about progress, so we do not lock our customers into restrictive contracts that limit their choices and opportunity to grow. Our guest roasting is set up so that you have access, and can offer the best coffee in Melbourne to your customers whenever you decide to.

What are the benefits of guest roasting?

variety

Keep customers curious, add variety.

Keep customers curious and add variety to your coffee program. The best part: You don’t have to only rotate micro-lots, you can rotate blends without having to substitute the coffee your regular customers have come to know and love. With Zest, adding variety has never been easier. We are flexible and offer four different specialty coffee blends, we also offer a constantly revolving door of spectacular microlots (single origins), reserve coffees and even decaf to ensure that there’s something for everyone’s palate.

brand exposure

benefit from the reputation of the roaster

People know and recognise roasters a lot more than they do a cafe – their branding is in a lot more places than yours. Having their brand visible in your cafe could land you new customers that might normally just walk past due to not recognising who you’re using.

black lunar scale for filter coffee brewing

skill development

Drink new coffee and develop your palate

Drinking the same coffee doesn’t always help baristas grow their knowledge base and palate. Being exposed to different coffees that are unique and have their own nuances requires a barista to upskill – it grows their knowledge base and their ability to dial in a wider spectrum of coffees.

Shake it up, guest roast with us.