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Green Beans Coffee’s new Terminal 3 location which opened in 2019 was featured again in San Francisco International Airport’s second video “Call 9-11” focused on the airport’s “If you see something, say something” policy. Green Beans’ team members act out both the incorrect and correct protocol for employees to address abandoned luggage left at the café.

Check it out on SFO’s Youtube Channel!

Green Beans’ Spiced Chai has been a favorite among Green Beans Coffee drinkers for over a decade. Now it’s finished 2020 in the number 1 spot on Amazon’s Hot New Releases list for Chai, topping household names like The Coffee Beans & Tea Leaf and Celestial Seasonings. 

“We’re thrilled Amazon shoppers are starting to discover our Spiced Chai, it’s been a best-seller in our cafés and online for over two decades,” said Elevate Gourmet Brands’ Chief Operating Officer Brian Laliberte. “We launched it as a complement to our coffee offerings in our cafés, and customers immediately loved it. The Spiced Chai latté is delicious on its own, but in our smoothies and frappés it really elevates them to the next level. When we first added our Spiced Chai Smoothie on the menu it was an instant hit and outsold other blended coffee drinks the first week.”

To promote the Spiced Chai, Green Beans continues that spirit of playfulness and experimentation with a series of  “snackable” social media recipe videos using the Spiced Chai powder. Flourless Spiced Chai Chocolate Cake, Spiced Chai Roasted Nuts and Spiced Chai Chia Seed Pudding are among the fun recipes Green Beans suggests you try with the Spiced Chai.

The Spiced Chai is available in 1.5 lb and 3 lb pouches on Amazon, and Green Beans will be including the Spiced Chai alongside coffee selections in its forthcoming Green Beans Coffee Tasting Collection launching in early 2021.

When you do travel, SFO wants you to #TravelWell. Wear your mask. Stay six feet apart. Wash your hands. Wear your mask. Stay six feet apart. Wash your hands. We hear it over and over again and sometimes it feels like a chore.

That’s why the amazing crew at #SFO wanted to switch things up by communicating these critical health reminders in a different and more memorable way. The result: SFO’s first ever music video, #MaskOnSFO!

Green Beans Coffee was excited to be a part of the video along with gate agents , custodians, airfield crew and engineers.

Check it out on SFO’s Youtube Channel!

KANSAS CITY, MO – Starting Veterans Day, Green Beans will donate coffee to veterans in need for every box of K-Cups purchased from their Amazon store. The “Cup of Joe For a Vet” promotion continues their partnership with Veterans Community Project (VCP), a Kansas City-based nonprofit working to eliminate veteran homelessness through transitional housing solutions and social services.

For over a year Elevate Gourmet Brands’® Green Beans Coffee® has supplied coffee and collateral to veteran residents of the Kansas City community. The Cup of Joe For a Vet initiative is the first step in engaging Green Beans customers in the brand’s efforts to support America’s Veterans in the same way their Cup of Joe For a Joe program engages civilians to support deployed Service Members.

“Green Beans Coffee is committed to supporting American Service Members from deployment to discharge and beyond. That’s been at the core of our mission as a company from Day 1; we opened our first café ever in 1998 in Saudi Arabia serving American Service Members. We launched the Cup of Joe For a Joe program in 2008 as a platform that a person in New York or Omaha or San Francisco could use to connect with a soldier deployed overseas by buying their next cup of coffee in real time, at one of our cafes there,” explained Co-Founder Jason Araghi. “COJ even allows them to exchange messages with the Service Member. Sharing a cup of coffee is universal, and Cup of Joe For a Vet connects civilians with veterans here at home in the same way.”

Cup of Joe For a Vet will run through the end of November, Military Family Month. Visit amazon.com/greenbeanscoffee to purchase K-Cups and participate in the Cup of Joe For a Vet program.

For more information about VCP, please contact Sara Loar at: sloar@vcp.org

Elevate Gourmet Brands® opens new Green Beans Coffee® to serve Music City travelers, employees and flight crews in Nashville International Airport’s South Terminal

Nashville, TN – Elevate Gourmet Brands’ third wave coffee concept Green Beans Coffee unveils its expansive new location near BNA’s South Terminal exit this week. Designed in collaboration with Silhouette Architecture Design in Chicago, this 3,000-square-foot ultra-modern location showcases the highest quality materials, clean lines, sleek modern fixtures, and the newest back-of-house technology including an integrated TOAST point-of-sale system.

Green Beans Coffee is a proud partner of both BNA Nashville International Airport and nearby Ft. Campbell US Army Base dating back to May of 2011.

“Elevate Gourmet Brands is thrilled to expand its relationship with BNA airport, MNAA and Fraport,” said Linda Jungquist, ACDBE Partner for this location, and lifelong Tennessean, ”Elevates’ Pronto! Marketplace on concourse B has been serving a taste of Green Beans Coffee since opening this past summer. Our customers are excited to now experience all day parts at this new South Terminal Flagship Location

Elevate Gourmet brands^® opens Pronto! to serve Music City travelers at Nashville International Airport

Nashville, TN – Pronto is now open at BNA B Concourse across from Delta Sky Club. Promising “curated provisions, sourced locally” Music City airport travelers, employees and flight crews will be able to enjoy a exciting, diverse selection of hot and cold meals packaged and ready for departure–Pronto!

Pronto Nashville will be proudly serving sister brand Green Beans Coffee while Green Beans builds out its new 3,038 square foot pre-security location near the South Terminal exit.

“Pronto is the perfect stop for travelers looking for quick, ready-to-eat provisions from Music City purveyors,” said Linda Jungquist, the Regional Manager for Elevate Gourmet Brands and ACDBE Partner for Elevate Gourmet Brands operating both Pronto and the Green Beans Coffee location currently in build-out phase.

Elevate Gourmet Brands rolls out its Pronto GoGo! Mobile Marketplace at SFO Terminal 2, as it enters the build-out phase for its Terminal 3 market location

San Francisco, CA – The Pronto GoGo, an electrically-powered mobile marketplace  inspired by the quintessential Italian Piaggio delivery truck, rolls out at SFO Terminal 2 ticketing level this week. Promising “curated provisions, sourced locally” airport travelers, employees and flight crews will be able to enjoy a exciting, diverse selection of hot and cold meals from Popular San Francisco Neighborhood purveyors like Burma Love, Par 3, Epicurean and Max’s packaged and ready for departure–Pronto!

Because Pronto showcases a wide variety of purveyors and cuisines, the customer has an inclusive list of meal choices including: vegan, gluten-free, halal, and keto dietary preferences will have delicious options to choose from. New local purveyors will be available at the Pronto GoGo on a rotating basis, and SFO travelers can look forward to the Pronto Terminal 3 Marketplace opening in early 2021 for an even larger selection of ready-for-departure meals from some of San Francisco’s most beloved purveyors.

Green Beans Coffee greets returning airport travelers with a new bakery section by their Dallas-based sister baking concept Whisk & Bowl

San Rafael, CA – Green Beans Coffee, who have remained open at most airport locations during the pandemic to serve essential staff, are unveiling their brand new bakery and breakfast section by Whisk & Bowl^®. The European-inspired, Texas-based bakery brand who opened two retail locations at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport in 2019, will provide all North American Green Beans Coffee locations a new selection of pastries, muffins, cupcakes, pastries and breakfast wraps and sandwiches.

Green Beans Coffee, one of the first coffee concepts to offer “breakfast all day” in addition to an indulgent pastry selection, will roll out the new Whisk & Bowl bakery section in July as air travel ramps back up after the pandemic lockdowns, “Hot, fresh and ready to be savored”.

“Whisk & Bowl is a step above in regards to ingredients, taste profile and presentation and we’re thrilled to welcome airport employees, flight crews and travelers back with a new, elevated bakery and breakfast section,” said Preston Stohs, Director of Retail Operations for Green Beans Coffee.

Since opening last year at DFW, Whisk & Bowl’s Le Cordon Bleu-trained executive chef Rebecca Willis has impressed with modern twists on local Dallas favorites like sweet and savory kolaches, and indulgent pastry and breakfast options.

Earlier this year GBC opened SFO T3, and is currently in their build-out phase for a new location at BNA airport.

For more information please visit www.elevategourmetbrands.com or email info@elevategourmetbrands.com

SAN RAFAEL, CA – Beginning this week Green Beans will launch their new K-Cup Coffee Pod line with their signature House Blend flavor. The Pods will be available in 12-count and 50-count sizes on the Green Beans Coffee Amazon store, with more flavors to follow in the coming months.

A major differentiator for the Green Beans Coffee Pods is the higher actual coffee content in the Pods themselves, boasting 13 grams per Pod, versus most other K-Cups on the market which have between 9 and 11 grams. Green Beans’ signature House Blend is a combination of handpicked beans from South America roasted at two different roast levels: half of the beans are roasted to a caramel medium roast then blended with beans that have been roasted to a deep, dark French Roast.

In addition, in keeping with Green Beans Coffee’s commitment to sustainability the Pods themselves are #5 recyclable and the packaging for both sizes is made from recycled materials.

Green Beans Coffee will launch the new K-Cup line with a series of  “snackable” social media recipe videos. Similar to the video campaigns supporting their Cold Brew Home Brew Packets and their Spiced Chai, the K-Cup campaign will show how to make signature Green Beans café drinks at home, as well some elevated K-Cup coffee creations, like the affogato, Keto Coffee, and Vietnamese Cinnamon Iced Coffee.

“The convenience of most K-Cups on the market is offset by the weak flavor. They just don’t hold enough product in the pod to offer flavor profile and richness you’d normally get from drip or brewed coffee,” said Chief Operating Officer Brian Laliberte. “We worked really hard to pack as much coffee into each pod as possible; 3 more grams of coffee per pod than most K-Cups on the market. With our House Blend K-Cups, Green Beans Coffee drinkers get the convenience of a K-Cup AND the same full, rich flavor they’d get from our ground coffee.”

Green Beans Coffee will be quick to take advantage of the versatility and convenience of their new Coffee Pod product line, donating bulk K-Cups and brewers to the Red Cross at Walter Reed Military Hospital with whom they’ve been working during the COVID-19 pandemic. “A lot of essential workers, nurses, and doctors only have a minute or two for a cup of coffee and the convenience and speed of the K-Cups serves them perfectly.” Laliberte said.

Green Beans K-Cup Coffee Pods are available at amazon.com/greenbeanscoffee