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Fast Times Coffee

Coffee · 3+ locations · New York City, Nashville, Los Angeles

Fast Times looks like a hidden indie café tucked behind Buck Mason's storefronts in SoHo, Nashville, and Venice. It's actually Buck Mason's own concept, run by the same founders who took a small VC seed round for the clothing brand in 2014.

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Part of Buck Mason — same founders, same funding

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Fast Times is Buck Mason's own café concept, run by the clothing brand's founders, Sasha Koehn and Erik Allen Ford. It names no roaster or farm for its house blend, and Glassdoor reviewers rate Buck Mason's pay and benefits 2.3 out of 5, lower than a year earlier. It answers to Buck Mason, whose only disclosed outside funding is a small 2014 seed round.

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Company data last updated September 2026

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