The company began roasting its own beans inside the original shop with a Diedrich IR-7 roaster in 2001 before eventually spinning off the Atomic Coffee Roasters brand and investing in an IR-24.Ĭatering to ever-growing demand, Atomic now boasts two identical 4,000-square-foot rooms inside the new production headquarters - one for production roasting and one for fulfillment. The wide open space at the Peabody location allowed the business to reinvent production flow for the family-run roasting business, which grew out of the original Atomic Cafe brand, opened by two brothers with a single location in 1996. In Boston, the Sun Also Rises with Night Shift RoastingĪero Coffee Roasters Rolls Into Retail Roastery and Bakery Outside Boston “We were always working within the confines of our small Salem footprint, and we really stretched that square footage for all it was worth.”Ģ1 New Coffee Shops This Year: Eastern United States “In 2020 we really maxed out the capacity of both our roaster and the production space, and so we started a plan to buy a new roaster and find a landing spot for it,” Atomic Coffee Roasters VP of Operations Spencer Mahoney recently told Daily Coffee News. In total, the capital outlay for the new roastery cost the Atomic team about $2 million, a substantial investment that was precipitated by consistent growth that maxed out its previous 2,000-square-foot roasting space in nearby Salem. Within that time frame, the Atomic team installed a garage door and opened two walls to make way for the roaster, while replacing the bounce house’s former “cosmic” carpeting with suitable production flooring and other interior renovations. Production at the 10,000-square-foot roastery officially began last summer following a tight turnaround between getting the keys to the former Boston Bounce location in Peabody, Massachusetts, and the arrival of the hulking new machine 26 days later. Inside a former bouncy house complex outside Boston, coffee beans now bounce around the drum of a Diedrich CR-70 roaster recently obtained by Atomic Coffee Roasters. ![]() All images courtesy of Atomic Coffee Roasters. The Diedrich IR-70 inside the new Atomic Coffee Roasters roastery in Peabody, Massachusetts.
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