With Acquisition in WA, Dillanos Plans Batdorf & Bronson RevivalDaily Espresso Information by way of Roast Mag

The Dillanos Espresso Roasters (DCR) headquarters in Sumner, Washington. Courtesy picture.

Longtime Seattle-area wholesale roasting corporate Dillanos Espresso Roasters (DCR) just lately received the West Coast industry of Olympia, Washington-based Dancing Goats Espresso from earlier proprietor Kaldi’s Espresso. 

The purchase will quickly outcome within the revival of the Batdorf & Bronson Espresso Roasters emblem, which used to be folded into the Dancing Goats identify in 2022.

“We’re bringing again the Batdorf & Bronson emblem,” Dillanos Espresso Roasters Founder and Co-CEO David Morris advised DCN. “That emblem approach so much to Olympians.” 

Larry and Cherie Challain based Dancing Goats as a unmarried espresso store in Olympia, Washington, in 1988. In 1990, the couple received their wholesale espresso provider, Atlanta’s Batdorf & Bronson, based by way of Dick Batdorf & Shannon Bronson.

Over the next a long time, Dancing Goats and Batdorf & Bronson operated as sibling manufacturers beneath the Challains’ possession, with roasteries and cafes in each the Atlanta and Olympia markets. 

A Batdorf & Bronson emblem from 2017.

St. Louis, Missouri-based Kaldi’s received Dancing Goats in 2023, and can proceed to possess and function Dancing Goats within the Atlanta discipline. In the meantime, Dillanos plans to sundown the Dancing Goats emblem within the PNW.

Kaldi’s and Dillanos have now not disclosed the monetary phrases of the Olympia acquisition. 

Morris advised Day-to-day Espresso information that Dillanos will sooner or later close down Dancing Goats’ roasting operation in Olympia, consolidating it with Dillanos’ current roasting operations in Sumner. In the meantime, the Dancing Goats Olympia cafes will likely be rebranded beneath the Batdorf & Bronson identify. 

The tasting room on the Olympia roastery will stay tentatively open, whilst the Olympia farmers marketplace cafe location will “indisputably” stay open, Morris stated. A 3rd Dancing Goats Olympia retail cafe, downtown, is being evaluated, whilst the Bayview location is owned by way of an authorized spouse and thus will stay open. 

For Morris, the revival of the Batdorf & Bronson identify is one thing of a full-circle second for forte espresso in Olympia. 

“After we had been simply entering roasting in 1992, and we had been visiting their roasting facility, I stated, ‘I need to be like this some day,’” Morris stated. “We’ll proceed to function the precise blends they had been working ahead of as Batdorf & Bronson.”

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