Author Archives: Sarina

Watch this Intro to Cafe Buunni

Many thanks to Angela Bao Bei Bei and Adam Golub for this! Our first video, a nice introduction to Cafe Buunni and to us!   Cafe Buunni Profile from Adam Golub on Vimeo.

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Ups and Downs

2013 didn’t start off with a bang. In fact, January was our slowest month, both for BuunniCoffee.com and Cafe Buunni.  As we started talking to others, we realized that almost all retailers (of anything) and most service providers too, were in a similar boat.  Turns out, the height of winter is not when most people buy [...]

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Cafe Buunni coming to 213 Pinehurst Ave, NY, NY 10033

It’s been ridiculously long since we’ve posted an update.  There’s been a whirlwind of activity at Buunni Coffee, including a long search for space that brought us right back where we started and where we wanted to be all along!  In an unexpected but fortunate turn of events, we recently finalized negotiations on 213 Pinehurst [...]

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We were at Coffee Fest NYC

So we didn’t get the space I wrote about last time.  Don’t want to dwell on it. Wasn’t meant to be, and we’re looking at spaces in Washington Heights, Dyckman, Inwood area and believe me, as soon as we find the right one, I’ll be blog-bragging all about it! In a stroke of extremely good [...]

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Buunni Coffee space in NYC?

We’re drinking our Ethiopian Yirgacheffe light micro roast this Sunday morning and it tastes good!  One of the first rules in a small business start-up book I recently read is: don’t fall in love with your product! But, I can’t help it.  I love Buunni Coffee. We arrived back from Ethiopia two and a half [...]

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