Verve Coffee Roasters
Verve Coffee Roasters is a coffee roaster based in Santa Cruz, California, founded by Colby Barr and Ryan O'Donovan. Verve opened in November, 2007 in Pleasure Point, California. The company currently operates in ten California-based locations, four in Santa Cruz, two in Los Angeles, one in San Francisco, one in Hollywood. They also have three locations in Japan: one at the Shinjuku, Tokyo train station, one in Kamakura, and one in the Kanagawa Prefecture. Verve earned the highest score in the coffee category at the Good Food Awards in 2013 and was also named one of the top coffee roasters in the United States by Thrillist, Complex Magazine, and Food Republic
