SoCe Coffee Co.

SoCe Coffee Co. a neighborhood café

Remember how I (Kristopher) left you hanging in a previous post about the adventure I got to take with the awesome folks...
04/09/2026

Remember how I (Kristopher) left you hanging in a previous post about the adventure I got to take with the awesome folks at Collaborative Origins Imports? Well, I was honored to have the experience of a lifetime trekking around Guatemala with Abdiel and Ryan and learning all about coffee at origin! Y'all, I cannot describe the scale of both my joy and the things I discovered. The industry is incredibly complex, but to learn all about it from some of the kindest, most hard-working people, in one of the most beautiful places I have ever been, was a dream come true. From planting, growing, picking, and producing (in all of its various stages) - to learning about the intricacies of exporting, importing, and distributing - I experienced the coffee supply chain in a very real way. At the risk of sounding like every other person who has witnessed this part of the industry, y'all, the amount of love and work that goes into every cup of coffee we drink is so astounding! I so appreciate that my friends at COI seek to allow folks to both experience this and take part in what shouldn't be so radical of an approach to coffee sourcing: mutually beneficial relationships across the supply chain. As my neighbors and I continue to work to make SoCe Coffee Company a reality, it's important to us that we do every stage of coffee right, and that journey starts with how we source our beloved beans. Abdiel, Ryan, and each of the producers we met with taught me so much (I'm still taking notes lol!); I will treasure these memories forever and am committing to taking what I've learned and infusing it into the DNA of our neighborhood café. Because to us, a relationship-centric coffeeshop starts with relationships with the folks at coffee's origin. Again, if you have not already, check out the amazing work of my friends over at Collaborative Origins Imports, and if you're into coffee, I would highly recommend researching coffee's various and complex production methods - you'll develop a new appreciation for every sip. As my friends at COI say, here's to both better relationships and better coffee!

Happy Valentine’s Day, y’all! It's time for another story post where I, Kristopher (owner), continue to document the jou...
02/14/2026

Happy Valentine’s Day, y’all! It's time for another story post where I, Kristopher (owner), continue to document the journey of the shop!

Our story last left off at LegacyWorks, and it was there that Chayne kindly introduced me to Ryan Chipman, the owner of Collaborative Origins Imports (COI). Ryan has a remarkable story; what started as teaching English at a school in Guatemala led to meeting the kids' parents who were coffee farmers which led to learning from them and becoming passionate about the industry as a whole. Now, Ryan leads an incredible team at COI that, I would argue, is helping radically transform the way coffee is both bought and sold. Without writing the entire dissertation it deserves, specialty coffee production is an incredibly complex and resource-intensive process. It involves caring for plants that take years to bear fruit, hand picking coffee cherries (coffee “beans” are the seeds within these!), processing those cherries in a multitude of ways (often at least de-pulping, fermenting, washing, drying, and hulling - wild arts and sciences in and of themselves), exporting, importing, roasting, and preparing. Each of these stages involves people doing very specialized and difficult work, yet sadly, historically, profits would largely appear towards the latter end of this process.

While technically embodying the importer role, the COI team works to ensure that prices - across the entire supply chain - are not only fair but honoring to everyone involved. How do they do it? The most beautiful part - beyond even the astonishing coffees they source - is that all of it is accomplished by building mutually beneficial relationships across the board. In a market often driven by the commodity price of coffee, Ryan and the COI team take the time to visit coffee farmers, foster meaningful friendships with them, and ask them the price it actually costs to produce their coffees - building from this base, not hypothetical market fixtures, to ensure the farmers are making profits upon which they can sustain their livelihoods. Isn’t that amazing? It wells up passion within me, and in the coffee-sourcing world where descriptors can often mean anything people want them to mean, these folks are actually transparently and directly sourcing coffee through the context of relationship. As a neighborhood café, we exist to primarily provide a space in which neighbors can be in relationship with one another, but beyond this, we want to do every part of the coffee process well and infuse each stage with relationship. SoCe Coffee Co. will be incredibly honored and excited to source coffee through COI so that relationships can keep changing the coffee industry - and the world - for the better…and so that you can enjoy the most delicious cup possible. In this time before we open and I can then chat your ear off about them, take the time to check out Collaborative Origins Imports on social media and learn more about the incredible producers they work with. And, here in Wichita, check out both Nameless Coffee Co. and Adelitas Coffee Co. and ask about the coffees they source from COI. Finally, stay tuned for a future post, where I’ll document the incredible adventure I got to take with them!

This past weekend contained a huge win for the coffeeshop; we picked up our wood for the coffee bar and almost all of th...
01/20/2026

This past weekend contained a huge win for the coffeeshop; we picked up our wood for the coffee bar and almost all of the tables and chairs for the shop! And the best part is that it was full of so many adventures, too! A trip to Russell, Kansas, with a loaded trailer, a flat tire on that I-guess-too-loaded trailer (but hey, at least we had a gorgeous, Kansas sunset to look at while we filled up!), and a fun unloading session with so many generous friends (I think the best part of the group picture is that the camera was magnetized to the back of a backhoe!). A huge thank you to everyone who made this happen, and the shop adventure continues! Stay tuned for future updates as things really pick up this spring. And yes, we're keeping the bar wood a little bit of a secret! ;)

Well, we weren't gonna reveal any interior pictures yet, but we figure, what the heck? Howabout a little Christmas surpr...
12/19/2025

Well, we weren't gonna reveal any interior pictures yet, but we figure, what the heck? Howabout a little Christmas surprise! Frankly, we also just can't wait! With demolition already complete, the space looks SO different than this now, but hey, y'all are gonna have to wait for that reveal in the new year! Some things are better kept a surprise. :) A huge thank you to the team at FirstCon Commercial Construction - Aaron, Brooklyn, Hector, Anthony, Justice - y'all rocked demo, and we cannot wait to start design in the new year! Here are some fun pics from when we first got into the space, including that stellar record booth. We fully intend to pay homage to the quirkiness of both Sweet Norma's, and our beautiful neighborhood, with the café moving forward. Happy Holidays, y'all! Stay tuned for some incredible updates in the new year, and here's to SoCe Coffee Co. opening in 2026! 🫢

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Wichita, KS
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