Café Grumpy
Coffee · 10+ locations · NYC, Coral Gables
Café Grumpy looks like the archetypal Brooklyn indie coffee shop. It even played one on HBO's Girls. Twenty years in, it actually is one: the married founders still own every café outright, took no outside money, and roast everything in Greenpoint.
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Café Grumpy's founders have owned it for twenty years and paid for its growth with loans and profits rather than investors. It roasts its own beans in Greenpoint, and no wage or labor cases have been reported. It answers only to the couple who opened it.
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