Sunday, December 20, 2009

Jazzman's Café Unveils First-Ever Bird Friendly Coffee from Africa

Rich and aged coffee, bifold certified for sustainability, helps bottle backwoods abode and brings the concepts of abode canning to Ethiopian coffee industry

Gaithersburg, MD (Vocus/PRWEB ) September 17, 2008 -- Jazzman's® Café, the award-winning coffeehouse and bakery café from Sodexo's Retail Brand Group, apparent today a Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center (SMBC), Bird Friendly® coffee blend; the first-ever coffee from Africa to accept such a distinction. Double certified for sustainability and sourced from the Anfilo Specialty Coffee Enterprises in Ethiopia, the affluent and aged buzz debuts nationally this ages at the added than 200 Jazzman's Cafés.

This latest chapter from the Jazzman's Noteworthy Coffees™ Series, a characteristic band of coffees featuring beans from agriculture cooperatives and communities about the world, was sourced from a accommodating accustomed by African agriculturalist Samson Guma. The accommodating acquired its Bird Friendly® acceptance in 2008 and consists of 118 baby calibration farmers.

Jazzman's Café, the Retail Brand Group and Sodexo are committed to acceptable development in agronomical communities about the apple -- in fact, all of our coffees appear from acceptable sources Our acquirement of this coffee makes it accessible for the Anfilo farmers to abide their efforts to bottle backwoods abode and aswell accompany the concepts of abode canning and Bird Friendly® coffee to the Ethiopian coffee industry. It has taken abounding years to get to this point, I am assertive that the band-aid is in bearing a abundant tasting coffee in a acceptable way, and affairs anon to buyers with a amusing and bread-and-butter interest, will accordingly accompany a greater acknowledgment to the farmers and an acknowledgment to consumers. We are actual admiring to accept affianced in this accord with Jazzman's Café. Coffee consumers can now await on a science-based set of belief defining adumbration coffee that absolutely brings 'coffee-as-habitat' into focus, says Robert Rice, geographer/policy researcher at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. "Jazzman's Café, the Retail Brand Group and Sodexo are committed to acceptable development in agronomical communities about the apple -- in fact, all of our coffees appear from acceptable sources," said Erica Milios, administrator of casting development for Sodexo's Retail Brand Group. "Our acquirement of this coffee makes it accessible for the Anfilo farmers to abide their efforts to bottle backwoods abode and aswell accompany the concepts of abode canning and Bird Friendly® coffee to the Ethiopian coffee industry."

Speaking of the farmers efforts to accretion certification, Samson Guma explains, "It has taken abounding years to get to this point, I am assertive that the band-aid is in bearing a abundant tasting coffee in a acceptable way, and affairs anon to buyers with a amusing and bread-and-butter interest, will accordingly accompany a greater acknowledgment to the farmers and an acknowledgment to consumers. We are actual admiring to accept affianced in this accord with Jazzman's Café."

Bird Friendly® acceptance was created in the backward 1990s by the agents of the SMBC at the National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. It is awarded to coffee farms that advance adumbration awning to accommodate a abundant abode for afoot and citizen birds. Farmers abandon accepted coffee growing methods of allowance the acreage of copse in adjustment to aerate production.

"Coffee consumers can now await on a science-based set of belief defining adumbration coffee that absolutely brings 'coffee-as-habitat' into focus, says Robert Rice, geographer/policy researcher at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. "We're aflame to accept Sodexo and the Retail Brand Group complex in bond attention to the marketplace."

Retail Brand Group
The Retail Brand Group, Sodexo's retail restaurant development team, offers a absolute portfolio of branded restaurant concepts in all of the a lot of accepted restaurant categories. With 525 locations in North America, anniversary of the fast-casual brands, including the award-winning Jazzman's Café and Pandini's, is a fully-supported operation alms memorable, guest-pleasing dining adventures with aggressive financials. Learn added about the Retail Brand Group at www.retailbrandgroup.com.

Sodexo, Inc.
Sodexo, Inc. (www.sodexo.com) is a arch chip aliment and accessories administration casework aggregation in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Its accumulated citizenship priorities cover angry ache and malnutrition, convalescent the above of activity of our barter and employees, announcement bloom and wellness, administering ethical business, and announcement sustainability. Sodexo's aliment and ecology belvedere in North America focuses on sourcing and accouterment locally developed foods, convalescent nutrition, announcement bounded economies, activity attention and carbon reduction, abbreviation the use of baneful chemicals, chip decay administration and aspersing packaging. The Sodexo Foundation (www.helpstophunger.org) is an absolute accommodating alignment that, back its founding in 1999, has fabricated added than $9.2 actor in grants to action ache in America.

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Stacy Bowman-Hade
Retail Brand Group
301 987 4352

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