ROASTED FRESH, DELIVERED DAILY.

Welcome to the Home of Coffee Perfection

Brisk Coffee Roasters is a family-owned and operated business located in historic Ybor City, a National Historic Landmark in the United States.

Brisk Coffee Roasters was founded in 1968, with a 100-pound batch roaster, a small warehouse, one delivery truck and a passion for fine coffees. Today, Brisk has grown to become one of the largest independent roasters in the Southeastern United States. Through our network of distributors and transportation affiliates, we can serve customers throughout the US and worldwide.

We continue to practice the same philosophy that laid the foundation for our success more than 40 years ago: To consistently deliver the freshest, richest coffees available anywhere. Our goal is to always exceed expectations regarding service and quality and to provide 100 percent satisfaction to our customers.

Ownership Statistics

  • Hispanic Owned: 100%

  • Woman Owned: 100%

  • Percentage of minority workforce: 72%

  • Percentage of female workforce: 32%

Team Members

Denise P Reddick

President
Caffeinated Since 1980

Randy Gonzalez

Vice President
Roast Master
Caffeinated Since 1984

Vicky Jones

Director of Contracts
Caffeinated Since 1985

Lucas Reddick

Director of Production
Roast Master
Caffeinated Since 2016

Marcelo Castro

Certifications and Compliance Manager
Caffeinated Since 2023

Bruce Johannesen

Director of Sales and Support
Caffeinated since 1980

Julie Beck

Customer Service Manager
Caffeinated since 1989

Keila Camarena

Accounting Manager
Caffeinated since 2011

Mike Newkirk

New Business Development Manager
Caffeinated since 2021

Jose Almonte

Roast Master
Caffeinated Since 2008

Madeline Jordan Rivera

Quality Control Manager
Caffeinated Since 2023

Jesus Espinosa

Packing Line Manager
Caffeinated since 1985

State-of-the-Art

Building & Equipment

In 2010, we moved to a new location, redesigned our plant, increased production capacity significantly, and greatly improved manufacturing processes. Our dual building design flow allows for efficient raw material and finished good inventory management. Our multiple loading docks and bays ensure we can accommodate our incoming raw bean shipments with our outgoing customer shipments to keep our product moving. We have also designed our production facility to run on a Just-In-Time business model to ensure our customers receive the freshest, highest quality coffee available on the market today.

Manufacturing Equipment List

  • Burns Thermalo ACO 500 pound 4-Bag Capacity Roasters with custom retrofitted control panels for better control of roast temperature and time

  • NEW IN 2024! Millenium US 360 Kilo Solid Drum Roaster

  • Burns Catalytic Afterburners that meet Federal EPA standards
  • Burns 2000-pound capacity coffee blenders
  • High-performance bag house-style dust collectors, coolers, and stoners, operated by sequential computerized control, all operate to maximize green bean preparation for roasting
  • Gump Model 777 Coffee Granulizers
  • Gump Coffee Granulizers fitted exclusively for espresso coffee
  • Masipak Continuous Motion High Speed Packing Machines

  • Key-Pack Form/Fill/Seal Vertical Packing Machines and fitted with printers for custom package print services

  • Key-Pack Form/Fill/Seal Bag-in-Bagger specialty machines for filter pack, in-room, and airline coffee

  • Vertical Form/Fill/Seal Whole Bean Packers capable of producing 1 lb.-5 lb. polypropylene bags
  • On-site nitrogen production for integrated bag flush system
  • On-site Coffee Laboratory used for quality control, research and development, proprietary blend development, testing and analysis
  • Key-Pack EL-800 Vertical Form Fill Seal Machine for retail stand up pouch bags with top and bottom gussets for bag sizes 2 lb. – 12oz. and Smart Date printer with software and gas valve applicator

Quality Control

Unmatched Quality & Innovation in Coffee Roasting

Our quality control team is truly one of the best in the country. Not only is our on-site laboratory used for quality control and research, but also development, proprietary blend development, testing and analysis.

Our commitment to quality includes our new, state of the art production facilities, which meet and exceed the latest required Federal, State and Local standards including:

  • State of Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Food Permit
  • National Registry of Food Safety Professional: Certified Food Safety Manager
  • NSF Cook and Thurber Certificate of Completion
  • Department of Agriculture Food Safety Inspection Report Certificate

  • Flame K Kosher Certified

  • Environmental Protection Agency Standard Afterburner System Approval

What Our Customers Are Saying…

“Brisk Coffee has allowed us to grow our business by giving us new avenues to pursue. We’ve expanded our customer base with their premium coffee blends and their flavored coffees. Our customers love the flavors!”

Dave Fine • Head of Purchasing • Sutherland’s Foodservice

“Brisk Coffee is an amazing partner and provides a great product for our communities with consistent delivery service. Our residents and staff are very happy.”

Tina D. Thomas • Senior VP of Operations • Mission Health

“Brisk Coffee has brought us amazing coffee and ease of product delivery. We have great hospitality programming around our beverage service.”

Tina D. Thomas • Senior VP of Operations • Mission Health

“Brisk’s customer service has exceeded our expectations and then some. If we run short, we get the extra coffee the next day. If we have issues they get back to us immediately.”

Alison Thomas • Peach’s Restaurants

“Brisk’s exceptional service, the quality of coffee for the price, and the different blend origins that are available have exceeded our expectations.”

Callie Mahaffey, MSRDN • Senior Living Food Service Procurement

“I love the Brisk Coffee team and my customers love the coffee; I never want to switch coffee suppliers.”

Chuck Presby • Lesters Diner

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