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Gimme! Coffee

{{short description|Chain of espresso bars in the state of New York, USA}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Gimme! Coffee

| logo = GimmeCoffee logo.png

| image = Gimmecoffee.JPG

| image_caption = The Gimme! Coffee bar on North Cayuga Street in Ithaca, New York, opened in 2000.

| type = Private

| foundation = 2000

| founder = Kevin Cuddeback

| location = Ithaca, New York

| homepage = [http://www.gimmecoffee.com gimmecoffee.com]

}}

Gimme! Coffee is a coffee roaster and third-wave coffee shop, based in New York, US, with espresso bars in Ithaca and Trumansburg. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gimme! in 2020 closed the Manhattan and Brooklyn-based locations, and began an Ithaca-area delivery service.{{Cite web|last=Burke|first=Stephen P.|title=Gimme! Coffee: to Go (From NYC)|url=https://www.ithaca.com/opinion/columnists/ithaca_notes/gimme-coffee-to-go-from-nyc/article_3f860014-80f0-11ea-a02e-47c2add9f6a1.html|date=17 April 2020|website=Ithaca Times|language=en}}{{Cite AV media|type=Photo|title=Snow day in April? Stay in bed. Order delivery|date=10 April 2020|publisher=Gimme! Coffee|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/B-zjfQcjAh3/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/B-zjfQcjAh3 |archive-date=2021-12-24|via=Instagram}}{{cbignore}} Gimme! Coffee also has a wholesale service that caters to coffee and espresso establishments.{{cite web | url=http://www.gimmecoffee.com/inquire-about-wholesale | title=Inquire about Wholesale}} In January 2020, Colleen Anunu replaced founder Kevin Cuddeback as CEO after he had served 20 years in the role;{{Cite web|date=2020-03-03|title=New Gimme! Coffee CEO talks union, future of the company|url=https://ithacavoice.com/2020/03/new-gimme-coffee-ceo-talks-union-future-of-the-company/|access-date=2020-06-15|website=The Ithaca Voice|language=en-US}} Anunu then made the company into a worker-owned cooperative, which it remains in July 25, 2022.{{cite web |last1=Jordan |first1=Jimmy |title=A Labor of Love: Gimme! Coffee becomes a co-op |url=https://ithacavoice.org/2022/07/a-labor-of-love-gimme-coffee-becomes-a-co-op/ |website=Ithaca Voice |access-date=April 14, 2023}} Gimme says that it forms relationships with farmers who grow coffee; farmers may receive a price premium which can help them improve their operations.

Awards

In 2006, the New York Times named Gimme! Coffee among the best espresso bars in New York City.{{cite news|title=Espresso's New Wave Hits Town|work=The New York Times|date=September 13, 2006|author=Peter Meehan|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/13/dining/13coff.html}} Gimme! Coffee received a Good Food Award, in the coffee category, for 2011[http://www.goodfoodawards.org/winners/2011-winners/ Good Food Awards, January 2011] and 2012.{{Cite web |url=http://www.goodfoodawards.org/winners/ |title=Good Food Awards, January 2012 |access-date=2012-06-25 |archive-date=2017-01-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126080301/http://www.goodfoodawards.org/winners/ |url-status=dead }} Roast magazine chose Gimme! Coffee as winner of their 2013 Roaster of the Year contest (macro category).{{Cite web |url=http://www.roastmagazine.com/currentissue/page180/roast_roymacro.html |title=Roast Magazine, November 2012 |access-date=2012-11-05 |archive-date=2012-12-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121210173225/http://www.roastmagazine.com/currentissue/page180/roast_roymacro.html |url-status=dead }} Dark Forest Chocolate collaborated with Gimme! Coffee to make an espresso based chocolate bar that won a Good Food Award in 2019.{{Cite web|date=2018-03-18|title=Dark Forest Chocolate and Gimme! Coffee collaborate on a Coffee and Dark Chocolate Bar|url=https://www.buffalorising.com/2018/03/dark-forest-chocolate-and-gimme-coffee-collaborate-on-a-coffee-and-dark-chocolate-bar/|access-date=2020-06-15|website=Buffalo Rising|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=AWARDS|url=https://www.darkforestchocolate.com/awardsd|access-date=2020-06-15|website=dfcm|language=en}}

Unionization

In May 2017, the upstate New York Gimme employees formed a union through the Tompkins County Workers' Center.{{Cite web|url=http://cornellsun.com/2018/02/07/gimme-coffee-baristas-ratify-first-union-contract-boosting-wages-with-management-support/|title=Gimme Coffee Baristas Ratify First Union Contract, Boosting Wages With Management Support {{!}} The Cornell Daily Sun|website=cornellsun.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-02-23}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.tcworkerscenter.org/2017/05/gimme-coffee-baristas-vote-___to-___-to-organize-union-in-workplace/|title=Gimme! Coffee Baristas Vote (94 to 6%) to Organize Union in Workplace – Tompkins County Workers’ Center|website=www.tcworkerscenter.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-02-23}} In February 2018, the group ratified its first union contract.{{Cite news|url=https://ithacavoice.com/2018/02/gimme-coffee-baristas-ratify-first-union-contract/|title=Gimme! Coffee baristas ratify first union contract|work=The Ithaca Voice|access-date=2018-02-23|language=en-US}} In March 2021, the baristas voted to decertify their union, citing interpersonal challenges and unresolved issues with Workers United.{{cite web |last1=Jordan |first1=Jimmy |title=A Labor of Love: Gimme! Coffee becomes a co-op |url=https://ithacavoice.org/2022/07/a-labor-of-love-gimme-coffee-becomes-a-co-op/ |website=Ithaca Voice |access-date=April 14, 2023}}

College Partners

In August 2014, Gimme! opened an espresso bar in Gates Hall on Cornell University main campus.

Subsequently, in 2017 an agreement was reached with Ithaca College to begin serving Gimme Coffee on campus.

See also

References

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Further reading

  • [http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/05/3.17.05/courtyard_cafe.html "Courtyard Café is abuzz with a new brew"] by Franklin Crawford, Cornell Chronicle, March 2005
  • [http://www.chow.com/stories/10075 "Masters of the Bean"] by Brendan Vaughan, Chow, September 2005
  • [http://www.ithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060816/NEWS01/608160303/1002 "New Roastery Eases Growing Pains"] by Katherine Graham, The Ithaca Journal, August 16, 2006
  • [http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/where-to-go-next-best-us-coffee-bars "Best U.S. Coffee Bars"] by Nick Pandolfi, Food & Wine, September 2008

External links

  • {{official website|http://www.gimmecoffee.com/}}

{{Ithaca, New York}}

Category:Coffeehouses and cafés in New York (state)

Category:Companies based in New York (state)

Category:Restaurants established in 2000

Category:2000 establishments in New York (state)