MinnEcon@work: The Coffee Guru
by Paul Tosto, Minnesota Public Radio,Anna Weggel, Minnesota Public Radio
October 29, 2009
St. Paul, Minn. — Nate Hrobak has gone from "slinging lattes" at an Uptown Minneapolis shop to one of four green coffee buyers for Caribou Coffee. Each day, Hrobak, 32, tastes and judges coffee the company buys and blends. Mornings are filled with roasting and analyzing samples in a kitchen just off Caribou's bean roasting room in Brooklyn Center.
Paul Tosto
• WriterPaul Tosto is an online reporter and blogger for MPR News.
Anna Weggel
• Public Insight AnalystAnna Weggel is a Public Insight Analyst, dividing her time between producing content featuring sources found in the Public Insight Network and training/mentoring APM's partner newsrooms across the country.
