✕ Currency Coffee founder and co-owner George Shoemaker (left) and co-owner David O'Neill. Photo courtesy Schumacher Center for a New Economics BerkShares Business of the Month: Currency Coffee At the start of the pandemic, the company began its Give One, Give One initiative. Customers purchased a box of coffee to donate to a frontline worker or organization. Currency Coffee donated a second box to another organization. DALTON —Currency Coffee Company follows the money. That is, its coffee, tea, and chocolate products are available in stores across the country wherever a Federal Reserve Bank is located. This is no accident, it’s by design, says owner and founder George Shoemaker. “We’re following a proven model.” Founded in The Stationery Factory in Dalton, they were inspired by the Crane Currency company. Currency paper leaves the Crane factory in Dalton and eventually ends up at a Federal Reserve Bank. Why shouldn’t another Berkshire product follow the same path?