At Blueprint Coffee, we aim to create a new framework for the way coffee is bought and sold among businesses. For too long, these relationships have been based solely on convenience, favors, and equipment loans. Blueprint Coffee’s wholesale partners don’t simply buy great coffee, but they enter into a mutually beneficial business relationship. We support this relationship by ensuring that our core wholesale values are always present in each relationship.
OUR WHOLESALE VALUES
QUALITY TRANSFERENCE
Let’s face it, buying Blueprint beans won’t magically make the coffee taste better at your restaurant or café. Along with providing great beans, we provide great wholesale support. We will ensure that proper equipment and training are in place so that your customers won’t notice any quality difference between a cup of Blueprint Coffee brewed at your coffee bar versus one brewed at ours. Simply put, we won’t sell our coffee just to advance our profits. We’ll only sell our coffee to partners who are dedicated to quality standards that mirror ours. Every potential wholesale partnership starts with a thorough needs assessment detailing how to build more delicious coffee experience.
PROFITABILITY
We don’t want our wholesale partners to buy our coffee simply because it tastes better than the alternatives. We also want them to buy it because it will make their businesses more profitable. We will use our collective 30-plus years of coffee retailing experience to make sure Blueprint Coffee is marketed, priced, and purchased responsibly, which will increase not only your quality, but also your bottom line.
COMPREHENSIVE CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
Not only do we care that you are happy and satisfied with your Blueprint wholesale partnership, but we also care about your end customer’s satisfaction. With keen ears and ready hands, we’ll make sure that we understand your business and your customer demographics. Our experience allows us to adjust our strategy so that you have satisfied customers. Choosing Blueprint Coffee should increase satisfaction across the board. Whether it’s hosting coffee events for your customers or showing you how to use our online ordering system, we aim to lead our industry in satisfied wholesale partners.
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Wholesale FAQs
Do you have order minimums?
We do not strictly enforce minimums, but we expect wholesale partners to purchase, at minimum, an average of five pounds of coffee per month. Whether that is 60 pounds for one month of the year or 60 pounds every week, our coffee and our team works to improve the coffee quality in your establishment. When wholesale partners purchase approximately 25 pounds of coffee each week, they become eligible for super partner benefits.
What is your roast schedule?
Currently, we roast Monday through Friday and focus on wholesale orders Monday through Thursday. We ship coffee via USPS and UPS within three days of being roasted – often the very same day it was roasted. We deliver local orders three days per week, with different days targeting different parts of the metro area. We work to set a logical and convenient order day for our wholesale partners so that their orders are fresh and predictable each week. We also offer will call pickup orders in case an order gets missed or something is left off. To have your coffee fulfilled on a roast day, orders must be submitted by 7am either by emailing [email protected] OR by submitting an order through our web store. Orders placed after 7am will be placed into production on the following roast day.
Can I get free shipping?
Locally, we offer free delivery on orders over $100. Beyond our local region, we offer free shipping via UPS ground on orders over $250.
What are the benefits besides great coffee?
All of our coffees are seasonal and traceable. We offer lots of information on our labels and on our website to let you know what we do (or sometimes don’t) know about our coffees. In addition, we aim to offer coffees in a wide selection of price ranges so that you can have quality coffees available for a range of brewing applications and price points. Our training team is made up of tenured baristas who excel in specialty coffee preparation and customer service. Before establishing an account, we conduct an initial needs assessment to figure out how the relationship between your business and ours can be the most successful. We then aim to follow up on this conversation at least every six months. Locally, we provide periodic quality assurance visits at no cost for accounts ordering over $250 of coffee per month. At these visits, our team will assess coffee and espresso based on taste and quantitative TDS and extraction analysis. In addition, we offer discounted technical service labor to our wholesale partners through our sister company – STL Coffee Equipment Service. We highly encourage our partners to establish a semi-annual preventative service schedule with our tech team to keep equipment in top shape. Super partners receive additional credits each year toward technical service labor and travel charges.
Can I just sell bags of beans or cans of Linear at my market or grocery store?
Absolutely! Our reseller partnership program keeps coffee fresh and makes restocking easy.
Do you offer any discounts?
Yes! Orders over $400 and placed through the website are eligible for a 4% discount on coffee by using coupon code bulk4. Wholesale partners who serve exclusively Blueprint Coffee, Kilogram Tea, and Linear Cold Brew qualify for a 4% coffee discount on orders under $400. Any wholesale partner who employ a full-time barista that has completed our 8-course training curriculum qualify for an additional 4% off coffee on any order so long as that barista remains a full-time employee.
I need equipment to make coffee, can you help?
We can help outfit your business with the best equipment in the industry. Currently, we distribute the following brands: La Marzocco, Nuova Simonelli, Mahlkönig, Marco, Fetco, Hario, Everpure, and Baratza.
Can you help me make the coffee better at my office?
We love to help offices enjoy better coffee. This can be quite challenging, as most office setups are serviced by large distributors that provide brewing equipment free of charge. Unfortunately, this is something we cannot do. If you are interested in attaining new equipment or already own your own brewing equipment, please feel free to reach out. We have a number of solutions for small (1 person) to large (200+ team members) offices.
I want to serve Blueprint Coffee at my restaurant/coffee bar/office, but my current provider gives me all my equipment for free. If I switch to Blueprint, you’ll do the same, right?
Unfortunately, we don’t provide free equipment. If desired, we can set up a lease for common equipment of our choosing that will make fantastic coffee to our quality standards. These leases will cost more than purchasing the equipment outright, but they can spread the cost of the equipment over a 2-year period, which some businesses prefer. We would love the opportunity to work with your business and we have some creative solutions to help you afford the right equipment to make great coffee — and avoid items that will only drag on your bottom line.