Melissa Leinart (Missy), is November’s Employee of the Month. Missy has been with Vienna longer than any employee other than John the founder. She started in November 2003 when the roasting and packaging was all still done in John’s garage in Maryville. At first she did all the packaging while John roasted. Since then, she has taken over all of the production roasting on the workhorse 35 Kilo US Roaster.
Born and raised in Madisonville, Missy has two grown boys. She and her Husband Joe still live in Madisonville with lots of family close by. Even with two very young kids when she decided to come to work with us, she was and still is as reliable as anyone you’ve met. She stays till the work is done and if we finish early, she is happy to take off early. She knows her job, keeps her work space immaculately clean and does it with a minimum of direction. John has often described Missy as the “Perfect Employee”.
NEW RELEASE: KENYA KABARE KONYU
The Kabare Farmer’s Cooperative Society represents approximately 800 farmers in the Kirinyaga District, on the southern slope of Mt. Kenya’s western side….Keep Reading
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8th Annual Arts of Vienna Fine Arts Competition Winners!
Congratulations to all of our 8th Annual Arts of Vienna Fine Arts Competition winners!
Read MoreVienna Coffee House turns 10!
18 years ago, in July, I walked away from the Corporate world for good. That is when Vienna Coffee Company, LLC became a serious idea. Still, what we did in the wholesale (roasting) side of the business was well within my comfort zone because it was a manufacturing job. It was using a big piece of thermal processing equipment like I had worked on for 27 years. The roaster was just a small version of the kilns and furnaces that I had worked on for my whole career in chemical incineration. Manufacturing coffee, even specialty coffee, requires skills that I already a good head-start on.
Retail coffee service, operating an actual Coffee House is a whole other thing…
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