About Common Friends
Common Friends Coffee is an independent Chicago coffee roaster owned by founder Evan DeVries. We roast in small batches for home brewers and hospitality businesses, with coffee shipping across the Midwest and throughout the United States.
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Common Friends Coffee was built around a simple belief:
Good coffee matters. But how you treat people matters more.
We are passionate about hospitality, craft, and being true partners in business.
Coffee is what we roast, but service is at the heart of what we do. We work with cafés, restaurants, bakeries, offices, and hospitality teams to build thoughtful, dependable coffee programs around the way their businesses actually operate.
We listen first. We learn your space, your team, and the experience you are trying to create. Then we help make it better.
We care deeply about sourcing, roasting, equipment, training, and all the small details that make great coffee possible. But we do not believe coffee needs to feel complicated or intimidating.
Our goal is simple: delicious, consistent coffee and genuinely helpful support.
We answer questions. We train teams. We help with openings. We troubleshoot problems. We show up when you need us.
We do not want to simply drop off coffee and send an invoice.
We want to be a true partner in your business.
Common Friends is about great coffee, thoughtful hospitality, and relationships built to last.
Coffee × Hospitality × Food
Common Friends was founded by Evan DeVries after a career spanning professional kitchens, bars, restaurant hospitality, café operations, coffee training, and 15 years in specialty coffee. That experience shapes how we think about coffee: not as an isolated product, but as part of a larger hospitality experience.
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