Community Coffee Company Celebrating 90 Years

QSR magazine:

Founded: 1919
Number of stores: 30
Headquarters: Baton Rouge, Louisiana

It all started in a general store in Dixie, Louisiana, where Henry Norman “Cap” Saurage began making and selling coffee, creating, in effect, the area’s first coffee house. He named the coffee “Community” in honor of his hometown and friends. A coffee mill, installed in the backyard barn, followed in 1924, and the family built a roasting plant in 1946.

While Community Coffee Company is best known for its retail product, sold in grocery stores, and service to restaurants, convenience stores, and offices, the company in 1995 perked up with a coffee house chain in New Orleans. Originally called CC’s Coffee House, the name was changed to CC’s Community Coffee House in 2007 to leverage the brand.