COFFEE prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds of According to legend, ancestors of today's Oromo people in a region of Kaffa berries from certain Coffee in Ethiopia were believed to have been the first to recognize the energizing species. The genus Coffee is effect of the coffee plant. However, there is no direct evidence that has native to tropical Africa been found earlier than the 15th century indicating where in Africa coffee (specifically having its origin first grew or who among the native populations might have used it as a in Ethiopia and Sudan) and stimulant. The story of Kaldi, the 9th-century Ethiopian goatherd who Madagascar, the Comoros, discovered coffee when he noticed how excited his goats became after Mauritius, and Réunion in eating the beans from a coffee plant, did not appear in writing until 1671 the Indian Ocean. Coffee and is probably apocryphal. plants are now cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily Part 1: About Us in the equatorial regions of Little something to our lattes-art! Himalayan Coffee House has been open the Americas, Southeast for just over two years. We wanted to be different than most coffee shops, Asia, Indian subcontinent, so we decided to add. and Africa. The two most commonly grown are C. Part 2: Schedules arabica and C. robusta. Once ripe, coffee berries are Himalayan Coffee house has three groups of five-hour shifts for all picked, processed, and employees. These are: dried. Dried coffee seeds Early Morning: 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. (referred to as "beans") are Early Afternoon: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. roasted to varying degrees, Late Afternoon: 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. depending on the desired flavor. Roasted beans are *Each shift comes with a 30-minute paid ground and then brewed with near-boiling water to break.Paid breakPaid break produce the beverage known as coffee.