Coffee Importers

What Coffee Importers does

The Coffee Importers is a family-owned single-location restaurant and café operating in Dana Point Harbor, California since 1975. From one physical storefront at 24200 Dana Point Harbor Dr., the business serves walk-in local residents, families, and harbor tourists with a diversified food and beverage menu spanning freshly brewed coffee, espresso and specialty drinks, smoothies, a wide variety of bagels (20+ types) and bagel specialties, breakfast items, paninis, sandwiches, salads, gourmet wraps, soups, and pastries. There is no proprietary technology underpinning the operation; standard commercial kitchen equipment is paired with a Heartland POS system that supports online ordering during business hours. Marketing is limited to organic social presence on Facebook and Instagram, with no paid digital campaigns, no third-party delivery partnerships, and no wholesale distribution.

Revenue is generated exclusively through transaction-based, pay-as-you-go unit pricing on individual menu items, with average checks ranging roughly from $3.50 for a coffee or smoothie up to $18.85 for a higher-end sandwich. The customer base is segmented horizontally between a primary local community segment (residents, families, neighbors seeking a gathering space) and a secondary tourist segment (visitors to Dana Point Harbor). The team is small — approximately six people covering CEO/Founder, Co-Founder, Designer, Barista, and additional roles — reflecting the scale of a single-unit independent operator. The business has accumulated a strong regional reputation, evidenced by nine consecutive years of "Best Coffee" and "Best Bagel" awards from 2012 to 2020, California Small Business of the Year in 2015, and ongoing local civic recognition for owner Jim Miller.

Name

Coffee Importers

Legal name

The Coffee Importers

Website

https://coffeeimporters.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1975

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Coffee Importers is a family-owned single-location café and bagel shop in Dana Point Harbor, California, established in 1975, serving walk-in local residents, families, and harbor tourists with coffee, bagels, breakfast, and lunch fare.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

NAICS

Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverage Bars (722515)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Cafe-Bakeries (Coffee + Pastry Focus) (THAFADAG)

Keywords

• Bagel shop
• Coffee cafe
• Breakfast restaurant
• Sandwich deli
• Specialty beverages

Headquarters

HQ city

Dana Point

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Food and Beverage Sales: One-time transaction-based revenue from selling coffee, bagels, breakfast items, sandwiches, salads, smoothies, and other food and beverage products to walk-in customers and online orders.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Coffee Importers is a family-owned bagel shop and café in Dana Point Harbor, California, operating since 1975. It serves freshly brewed coffee, bagels (plain and specialty creations), breakfast items, sandwiches, paninis, salads, wraps, soups, smoothies, and espresso-based beverages to walk-in and online-order customers. The business also functions as an ice cream store, deli, and juice bar under one integrated restaurant operation.

Product overview

Coffee Importers operates as a single-location family-owned bagel shop and café in Dana Point, California. The business offers a unified food service operation featuring freshly brewed coffee, bagels (plain and specialty creations), breakfast items, sandwiches, paninis, salads, wraps, soups, smoothies, and various espresso and specialty drinks. There are no modular product lines, add-ons, or platform architecture—the offerings are all part of one integrated restaurant service. The company also maintains an online ordering system via Heartland POS.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Bagel Specialties

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Emerging players

• Philz Coffee: Bay Area-born specialty coffee chain with expanding Southern California locations — competes for the premium, single-cup coffee occasion with a similar neighborhood gathering-space positioning.
• Blue Bottle Coffee: Specialty third-wave coffee company with retail cafés across California — competes for the same premium coffee drinker with a similar attention-to-brew quality positioning.
• Stumptown Coffee Roasters: Specialty coffee roaster and café operator with West Coast retail presence — adjacent competitor for specialty coffee drinkers in the same broad California market.

Broad incumbents

• Starbucks: Global coffee chain serving espresso, brewed coffee, breakfast, and lunch items at retail locations — broader incumbent competing for the same morning coffee-and-food occasion in the same Southern California trade area.
• Peet's Coffee: Established specialty coffee roaster and café operator with a strong California retail footprint — competes for specialty coffee and breakfast traffic in the same regional market.
• The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf: Specialty coffee and tea chain with broad California presence — directly comparable beverage menu and café format to Coffee Importers' coffee and tea offerings.

Direct peers

• Panera Bread: Café-bakery chain combining soups, salads, sandwiches, breakfast, and specialty coffee beverages — a comparable cafe-bakery format to Coffee Importers' integrated coffee + food service model.
• Einstein Bros Bagels: National bagel chain offering bagels, breakfast sandwiches, coffee, and lunch items — directly comparable product mix and customer use cases to Coffee Importers' bagel shop + café concept.
• Bruegger's Bagels: Bagel-focused café chain serving bagels, cream cheeses, breakfast sandwiches, and coffee — a directly comparable category to Coffee Importers' bagel-and-coffee menu, though operating at national chain scale rather than a single independent location.
• Noah's New York Bagels: West Coast bagel chain specializing in bagels, spreads, breakfast, and coffee — closely comparable category and customer base to Coffee Importers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/coffeeimporters
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/coffee-importers

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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