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Friends, family, and loyal guests:

Java Central has been honored to serve the Westerville and Central Ohio community for over 18 years. Over that time, we have had many different chapters of our story as we adapted and grew to meet new challenges. Despite major financial losses in 2020, we not only managed to survive as a business, but through your support we have grown to become a small business success story! To sustain this growth, the Java Central partners have used every resource and tool available in the pursuit of the mission we care so much about. To continue this great work, we needed to look for a new way to sustain Java Central.

We are excited to announce in early 2025 we will be merging with Boston Stoker Coffee Co!

Java Central has worked hand-in-hand with our friends at Boston Stoker for over 10 years now, including traveling together to work with coffee farmers in Latin America and hosting joint barista competitions for our local industry colleagues to connect and grow. We could not be more proud to announce this union. As part of the Boston Stoker family, we will now be enabled to continue our service to Westerville – remaining as 𝐽𝑎𝑣𝑎 𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙 – with the same radical hospitality, quality products and exceptional staff that have worked so hard to get us here. Partners Andy and Ralph will also be going forward with Java Central/ Boston Stoker. Ralph will continue leading the music and art program and Andy will become Boston Stoker’s director of sustainability.

Boston Stoker partner Henry Dean:

Boston Stoker was started by my parents, Don and Sally Dean, back in 1973 as a small pipe and tobacco shop in Englewood, OH. They began giving away free cups of coffee as a complimentary service to their loyal customers. Boston Stoker started roasting coffee in the back of one of our shops in the early 80s and became a charter member of the Specialty Coffee Association of America in the mid 80s and then started our first direct trade relationship shortly after. We now have five café locations in Dayton and Central Ohio, a thriving wholesale business, a growing ecommerce business, and a roastery operation in Dayton. I am very excited for our teams to join up and grow together. We have had a vast depth of experience in the 50 years we have been in business but we continue to learn and grow every day. Our vision is to become the premier roaster in the Midwest that exceeds the expectations of our farmers, families, and coffee loving friends. We look at all our team members as family and have always operated our business as such. I am looking forward to our families joining together to help us achieve this vision.

From the Java partners Ralph, Megan and Andy:

We want to deeply and humbly thank everyone who has made our coffee company soar to the heights we have reached in our Westerville community, Central Ohio and even beyond. In 18 years we have built something truly remarkable and rare in the world. We look forward to making greater impact in our community and our region as leaders in the coffee industry for many more years to come.
JC Owners Andy Megan and Ralph
JC Owners Megan Andy and Ralph with Theresa
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