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Helping others through coffee I said to myself, wait a minute, I come from Kenya. We have very, very good coffee and Americans love coffee. I realize that Americans are willing to pay $3 or $4 for a cup of coffee, Kabuki said. And back home, the coffee growers are very, very poor because they get paid just a tiny bit of that amount. So I decided that I m going to start a company where the coffee growers are getting paid more money.
Starting slowly in Jacksonville more than a decade ago, Kabuki and Gikunju moved to St. Augustine and are now importing four shipping containers a year of raw coffee beans directly from farmers in small villages in Kenya in the area where they grew up. Then they roast, grind and package it for sale.