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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Coffee roaster |
Founded | July 2014 Shaw, Washington, D.C., United States |
Founder | Michael Haft |
Headquarters | Washington, D.C., United States |
Number of employees | 190 [1] (2020) |
Website | Official website |
Compass Coffee is an American coffee roaster based in Washington, D.C. [2] It was founded in 2014 and operates in Washington, D.C. and Virginia. [3] [4] [5] As of March 2023 [update] , the company has 16 stores. [6] [7]
The company was founded by Michael Haft in 2014. [8] Following the Shaw neighborhood store, a second store was opened in the same neighborhood in September 2015. [9] Over the next few years, other stores were opened in Washington DC and Arlington, Virginia. [10] [11] The first drive-through store was opened in October, 2022. [12]
On October 20, 2017, Compass Coffee founder Michael Haft received the District of Columbia Chamber of Commerce's Community Impact Award at the 2017 Chamber's Choice Gala. [13] On March 31, 2017, Compass Coffee was featured in DC Mayor Muriel Bowser's State of the District Address for jump-starting the Made in DC movement and creating jobs in DC. [14]
Compass Coffee has partnered with Dog Tag Bakery, which offers a vocational program teaching disabled military veterans and their caregivers entrepreneurship skills to launch businesses. [15] Compass supplies the bakery with coffee, and Michael Haft serves as a guest speaker with each cohort. [16] [17] Compass has also formed partnership with The Corp at Georgetown University which is a student run organization that teaches students management and leadership shills through operating businesses on campus. [18] Compass has been supplying The Corp since 2015. [18] The Washington Post and Compass Coffee collaborated on "The Post Roast," a coffee blend celebrating The 7 newsletter and podcast, reaching over a million subscribers and recognized as Apple's top series of 2022. [19]
Due to the impact of COVID-19, Compass laid off 150 of its 189 employees in March 2020. [20] [21] [22] The remaining staff had their pay cut to $15 per hour, and about 20 of the staff assisted in the construction of a new roasting facility. [23]
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