If you buy coffee in King County, whether from a grocery store or a boutique cafe, there’s a good chance the beans have passed through The Green Room in Auburn, Washington. The Green Room is a major stop in the coffee supply chain and one of the top green coffee warehouses in the Pacific Northwest for storing commercial and specialty coffee. The warehouse receives coffee beans from afar and stores them for buyers.
To thrive as a coffee distributor in a region rich with coffee, their operation is large. The Green Room opened in 2000 and in the early days shared its warehouse space with outdoor adventure gear and apparel. Over the years, the operation grew, and now the entire building is devoted to coffee.
Inside the 200,000 square foot facility, 222,000 bags of coffee beans from 32 different countries tower over forklift drivers, who busily load up empty semitrucks for their scheduled trek across the vast network of roads in Washington state.
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