Coffee roastery upgrades from a truck to a brick and mortar

After closing on a location earlier this year, Banyan Coffee Co. finally has its own place. New challenges are percolating.

  • By Amanda Postma
  • | 3:40 a.m. October 29, 2022
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Josh Schmitt credits a lot of the design work to his wife and co-owner Abbey Schmitt. (Photo by Lori Sax)
Josh Schmitt credits a lot of the design work to his wife and co-owner Abbey Schmitt. (Photo by Lori Sax)
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A cute little coffee shop adorned with strategically placed pumpkins and hanging greenery recently popped up across the street from the Palmetto Police Department in north Manatee County (there’s bound to be a joke in there somewhere), and although the shop is a coffee roastery in nature doughnuts are on the menu (there it is). 

 

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