Barefoot Coffee Roasters and Blue Rock Shoot Coffee Give Back to the Community

Barefoot Coffee Roasters increases availability of Cause and Effect" coffees to the Saratoga Los Gatos area to deliver sustainable support to local charities and causes

SAN JOSE, CA (PRWEB) September 21, 2004 --- Coffee lovers and cause minded individuals can now support several great Bay Area causes by drinking coffee at Saratogas famed Blue Rock Shoot coffee house. Through its Cause and Effect" program, Barefoot Coffee Roasters is raising awareness and providing sustainable support for local causes and charities such as Emergency Housing Consortium (EHC) and Ballet San Jose. And now Saratoga and Los Gatos residents can enjoy world class coffee and espresso drinks and support their community causes at the same time.

For every pound of Casa Segura or Tanzania Ballerinaberry coffee sold at retail at Blue Rock Shoot, Barefoot Coffee Roasters and Blue Rock Shoot will combine to donate $1 to the respective cause. In addition to retail sales, Barefoot Coffee Roasters will donate $0.50 for each pound of these Cause and Effect coffees that Blue Rock Shoot brews up in the café for customers.

Casa Segura and Tanzania Ballerinaberry are available for purchase in whole bean by the pound as well as served on the bar as filter coffee at Blue Rock Shoot at Big Basin Way in downtown Saratoga, CA. It is also available at Barefoot Coffee Roasters located at 5237 Stevens Creek Blvd. in Santa Clara.

Saratogans are always looking for ways to give back to the community and support the arts and other great causes." Said Guillermo Alvarez, owner of Blue Rock Shoot. Barefoot Coffee Roasters awesome Cause anf Effect program allows us to serve truly world class coffee to our demanding customers and satisfy their desire to be involved with and support great community causes and arts."

While Barefoot Coffee Roasters provides sustainable support to the global community by purchasing coffee directly from farmers and buying Fair Trade coffees, the creation of these special blends highlights the companys commitment to bring that support to the local community.

All of us have great intentions to support local causes and help our communities." says Andy Newbom, CEO of Barefoot Coffee Roasters. The Cause and Effect program raises awareness about some great programs in our local community and allows all of us to vote with our dollars and actually make positive change. Coffee and community are intertwined. Community leaders and visionaries like Guillermo Alvarez at Blue Rock Shoot are the future of sustainable support for the community."

Catherine Hughes, a long time Blue Rock Shoot coffee fanatic and customer was excited to be able to support great local causes and arts groups. "Barefoot Coffee Roasters coffees are really amazingly tasty and are the best I have ever had. And to be able to support great homeless initiatives and the ballet at the same time at no extra cost is fantastic and I think world changing!"

Restaurants, cafés or other businesses interested in providing sustainable support for the homeless, the arts or any of the other Cause and Effect charitable support programs can contact Barefoot Coffee Roasters at 408-687-3692 or info@barefootcoffeeroasters.com for more information.

Blue Rock Shoot Coffee house has been a fixture in the heart of downtown Saratoga for almost eight years. It is one of the most beautiful and accommodating coffee houses in the entire Bay Area. Situated in an old Craftsman bungalow built by early Saratoga socialites it has an amazing assortment of rooms and balconies that spill down the wooded hillside in back over four stories and balconies. Blue Rock Shoot serves Barefoot Coffee Roasters artisan coffees, fresh teas, smoothies and serves a complete line of hot and cold sandwiches, pizzas and several beers and local wines. Blue Rock Shoot is open seven days a week.

Barefoot Coffee Roasters is a full-service coffee and espresso bar and artisan organic wholesale coffee roaster located at 5237 Stevens Creek Blvd. in Santa Clara (at the corner of Lawrence Expressway near Bed, Bath and Beyond). All coffees are roasted fresh in the café by skilled artisan roasters using old-world, small batch roasting techniques to coax the best flavor out of every coffee. Barefoot Coffee Roasters actively practices and promotes sustainability in both products and practices. Over 85% of Barefoot Coffee Roasters coffees are organic, shade grown and fair traded, resulting in not only better coffee but better living and working conditions for the farmers and their children for successive generations. The café features computers for Internet access, as well as Wi-Fi Internet access, and serves high-quality coffees, teas, pastries, desserts and chocolates. Barefoot Coffees are served and enjoyed in many fine cafés and restaurants throughout the Bay Area. Barefoot Coffee Roasters is proud to be a participating member of the Specialty Coffee Association of America, the Roasters Guild and a founding member of the Barista Guild of America. For more information, please call (408) 248-4500, visit www.barefootcoffeeroasters.com or simply drop by.

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