Most – if not all – of our competitors offer training as an afterthought, but they don’t have a dedicated training director like us. We believe great coffee starts with the right training. That’s why we created the first barista training program in Rhode Island in 2008, and we’ve always been at the forefront of coffee education locally. (We started and ran the world-renowned MANE Coffee Conference from 2008 to 2016)! 

We encourage our wholesale partners to take advantage of our classes as often as possible, and whenever they have hired new staff. Wholesale customers who source exclusively from NHC get all the training they want for free. 

In addition to the scheduled classes we offer at the Providence Coffee Lab, we train onsite at our wholesale customers’ locations. 

We roast our coffee to order. Orders received Monday through Friday by 7am can be shipped or delivered the day it is roasted. We offer free next-day delivery Monday through Friday in the metro Providence area and free next-day shipment throughout RI, MA, and CT. We take pride in being an active member of our local food economy, hiring creative and energetic Rhode Islanders, and creating partnerships with other artisan food producers.