Most people who order coffee online think about what’s in the bag. Origin, roast, blend. The product decisions that determine what ends up in the cup.
Bean Online is a coffee company in South Africa that supplies Mugg & Bean, Wimpy, Vovo Telo, and other leading restaurant chains with freshly roasted coffee.
Bean Online is the online face of Famous Brands Coffee Company, the roasting arm of the Famous Brands group. Famous Brands is JSE-listed, Africa’s largest food franchise group, and the parent company of Mugg & Bean, Wimpy, Vovo Telo, Fego Caffe, Lupa Osteria, Turn ‘n Tender, and others. The coffee company started in 2007 in a double garage with a 15kg gas roaster and has grown into one of South Africa’s largest roasteries. FSSC 22000 certified — the food manufacturing safety standard.
The direct-to-consumer offering through beanonline.co.za makes the same coffee available to homes and offices across South Africa. Same roastery, same blends, same quality standard. The bags look different from what arrives at the restaurant. The coffee inside is the same.
Mugg & Bean. Five blends of beans and ground coffee, plus Nespresso-compatible capsules. The coffee served in every Mugg & Bean restaurant in the country, available for home and office. Mocca Java is the signature: Ethiopian and Indonesian origins, medium-dark, the blend that defines what Mugg & Bean smells like before the order arrives.
Loba. Five single-origin-inspired blends, each named for the region that inspired it: Giant of the Great Rift Valley, Depths of Maziwa Makuu, Awakening the Nazca Plate, Dawn of the Americas, Mystery of Gondwana. For the coffee drinker ready to explore what growing region does to flavour.
Barney’s Blend. Developed with John Smit, supporting the John Smit Foundation which works with abused women and children and injured rugby players. Extra smooth, bold body. Good coffee with a direct social impact connection.
Black Crow. Small-batch specialty Arabica, hand-selected, hand-roasted, and cupped exclusively for beanonline.co.za. Available monthly while stock lasts. The finest expression of what the roastery produces.
Wimpy. The signature Wimpy roast, available for home brewing. The mild-but-full-bodied profile that’s been part of the Wimpy breakfast experience for decades, now available to brew at home.
The supply chain between a roastery and a supermarket shelf adds time that coffee doesn’t benefit from. By the time you open a bag from the supermarket, the smell and taste of the coffee have been fading for weeks or even months.
Bean Online sends coffee from the roastery packed with special air to keep it fresh. For cities in South Africa the time between roasting and getting it to your door is just a few days. That’s a difference, from the months it often takes through regular stores.
Significantly. Orders are dispatched from the roastery with modified atmosphere packaging. For most South African urban deliveries, the gap between roast and delivery is days rather than the weeks or months that characterise retail supply chains.
Yes. A wholesale offering is available for businesses, offices, and hospitality operators who need regular supply at volume. The same range available to retail consumers is available to commercial accounts.
Yes. Bean Online sources from farms where farmers are well compensated and coffee is sustainably cultivated. The Loba range was specifically developed to showcase the best of the regions it sources from, with origin transparency built into the range design.
A coffee company in South Africa that covers the full coffee experience brings together the beans, blends, origins and roasting behind every cup. Bean Online has been building this capability since 2007.
Bean Online is South Africa’s direct-from-roaster coffee company. Mugg & Bean, Loba, Barney’s Blend, Black Crow, and Wimpy coffee are available for coffee drinkers looking for freshly roasted coffee with a choice of distinctive blends and origins. Shop at beanonline.co.za.
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