Wholesale coffee supply in Northcote
High Street venues tend to be small and owner-operated — one machine, one grinder, and regulars who would notice a blend change within a day. Northcote accounts usually want a house espresso they can keep for years plus a 250g filter bag for the retail shelf, delivered before 8am on Fridays.
What does wholesale coffee supply involve?
Yes. We supply roasted coffee to cafes, restaurants and offices across Melbourne's inner north, with a 6kg minimum order and deliveries twice a week. Onboarding includes a free dial-in on your own grinder, two hours of staff training, and an account contact who still works a shift behind the machine.
The essentials
- Minimum order
- 6kg per delivery, any mix of blend and single origin
- Delivery days
- Tuesday (inner north by cargo bike), Friday (north by van)
- Order cut-off
- 2pm the day before a run
- Included support
- On-site dial-in, two hours of staff training, quarterly recheck
- Loan grinder
- Provided and serviced for accounts over 20kg a week
- Terms
- 14-day invoicing, no minimum term, no exclusivity
How it works
How an account starts
An enquiry gets you a tasting at the roastery, on your water if you bring a bottle of it, across the house blend and whatever single origins are open. From there we send a 6kg trial and dial it in on site — on your grinder, your machine, your milk — because a recipe that works on our bench is close to meaningless on a different burr set.
The trial runs a fortnight. If it holds up, the account opens on 14-day invoicing with a standing order you can change up to 24 hours before a delivery run. Nothing is locked in: there is no minimum term and no exclusivity clause, because an account that stays out of habit rather than because the coffee is good is not worth having.
Delivery
Two runs a week. Tuesday covers Fitzroy, Collingwood and Carlton by cargo bike, which is faster than a van on Smith Street and means small emergency top-ups are genuinely possible. Friday goes north up the 86 line to Northcote, Thornbury and Preston by van. Orders placed before 2pm the day before make the next run; anything further out goes overnight courier, roasted the same week.
What comes with the coffee
Two hours of barista training for your staff at open, repeated free whenever you have significant turnover. A grinder on loan for accounts over 20kg a week, serviced by us. A referral to the technician we use for machine work, because we do not pretend to be a service department. Recipe cards printed for your bench, and a quarterly visit to re-check extraction as the humidity changes and your burrs wear.
Blend changes
Harvest changes are announced three weeks ahead with a sample of the incoming lot, so you can taste it and adjust before it turns up in a delivery. If it does not work on your setup we will keep you on the outgoing component while stock lasts and help you find the next recipe. Surprises on a Monday morning are how accounts get lost.