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Hungry Ghost Coffee

Coffee · 12+ locations · NYC

Hungry Ghost Coffee reads like a typical scrappy Brooklyn coffee shop, and it actually is one. Founder Murat Uyaroglu has grown it to 12 NYC cafés since 2012, every one company-run, with no outside investor on record.

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Murat Uyaroglu opened Hungry Ghost Coffee in Brooklyn in 2012 and has grown it to 12 company-run cafés in Brooklyn and Manhattan. It buys all its coffee from Stumptown but publishes no pay or environmental figures, and no labor or environmental cases have been reported against it. With no outside investor on record, it answers to its founder, who still runs it.

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Company data last updated September 2026

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