Ria Neri, Eylem Ozkaya, and Kevin Heisner, who met in Chicago, started the roastery in summer 2014. They set it up on Burgazada, Ozkaya's home island, and roast there on a Giesen G6.
A second roastery opened in Chicago in 2016, inside The Plant, a building of food businesses, and roasts on a Probat P12. Neri bought the first harvest of Gesha Village in Ethiopia in 2015, which they froze and served three years later. A Chicago café followed in 2018.
