Jon designed and created the first modular, fully-operational Seattle-style cafés crafted from the shell of a shipping container, with features including marble counters, halogen ceiling tracks, wood casework, and leather seating. These small mobile units proved to be an extremely versatile solution to the unique challenges of café operation in some of Green Beans Coffee’s first locations: easily transportable and able to be sited anywhere the troops deployed. From 2003 to 2011, Jon lived with our troops at their bases in Kuwait, Qatar, Afghanistan, Djibouti, and later in Iraq, where he oversaw the operation of more than 100 Green Beans Cafés. Today, after a near decade of travel, Jon is safely back home where he has turned his talent and attention to bringing the Green Beans experience of exceptional coffee and community to the company’s newest locations. When asked, Jon says he is most proud of helping Green Beans provide “15 Minutes of Home” to the brave U.S. Troops who serve on our behalf in some of the most inhospitable and dangerous places on Earth.