06/29/2026
We will close in Madisonville on July 11, 2026. If you have gift cards please use them by that date. For the past nine years, we have brought fresh roasted coffee to Madisonville but the time has come for us to enter a new season. We are incredibly thankful to everyone who helped our family realize the dream of owning our own coffee business. The lessons that were learned will carry us forward in our next chapter of adventures. We have been blessed these past years to have outstanding employees that became family and loyal customers that became friends.
You've probably heard the saying, "If you see a turtle on a fencepost, you know one thing for sure: it didn't get there by itself." We have lived that saying and have been set in places we could have never reached on our own. The number of people that helped us are too many to name, but you know who you are and we are thankful for all of you.
If you're interested, here's a little bit of our story. In 2017, the five Maples (dad, mom, and three daughters) each put in $250 to form Campfire Roasters. Nights and weekends we worked without pay, always reinvesting any profits into more equipment or facilities. We bought a cargo truck and converted it into a coffee truck, one Saturday at a time. Eventually, we were able to build the Express—a beautiful building engineered for high volume drive through service.
We've learned a lot through this journey about roasting, plumbing, marketing, construction, and taxes (just to name a few things), but we learned mostly about ourselves. We learned that we love each other more than we love our success, that God is good when sales are up and when sales are down, that competency matters but character matters more, and that we can persevere and do hard things.
I hope in some small way our family has inspired you to pursue your own dreams. We'd love to see you sometime before we close. Madison Maples will be on site running the Express through July 11th. And if you know someone who would like to pursue their dream in our building, let us know. We'd love to talk with them.
Finally, we want you to know that anything good that has come through us has been a reflection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We give Him all the glory for what He has done for us, in us, and through us.
"Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen." (Ephesians 3:20–21)