Hey, I'm Tony

Starting a coffee company has been a dream of mine, more than a decade in the making. Thanks for being here — and for helping make it a reality.

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How Function Coffee Co. came to be

I started drinking coffee at the ripe age of Child. I remember it like it was yesterday… Standing in my grandparent’s kitchen in Beeville, TX my mother asked if I’d like to try it. She put some coffee in a red mug with a ton of milk and 6 scoops of sugar.

Of course I thought it tasted like liquid magic.

Fast forward a few years and my taste buds became a little more adult-ish as I started to hone my palette working for several coffeeshops in NYC and LA.

Now back home in TX: I set up a Bellwether Roaster—the first and only zero emission coffee roaster in Northlake, TX—and the rest is history.

Thanks for drinking,

Tony

I'm on a mission to make specialty coffee approachable

When I fell in love with coffee, it was right before the start of the third-wave movement. Unfortunately with that movement came a whole-lotta snobbery in the coffee-world.

I want this forth-wave of coffee to be the opposite. I want to focus on bringing joy to everyone's lives through coffee. I want to focus on inclusivity. I want to focus on transparency and breaking down pretentious walls.

You like syrups and milk in your single-origin Ethiopian? Go for it!

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