Welcome to Tinto
August 18th, 2008
For those of you who already know us, and for all those that we have never met welcome to Tinto’s new website! After some years of consideration, we have decided to create this site in order to better the links we have with our current clients and, introduce our offerings to all those who never tasted our Tinto’s.
Here you’ll be able to dig deeper into what makes Tinto and how it came about. You can browse through our expanded menu, meet the founders and the staff. You can also take a look at how Tinto is making a difference for many children throughout Latin America.
So get your cappucino, your Tintoccino or your mint tea and enjoy browsing our website!
10 Facts about Coffee
May 14th, 2008
Did you know…
- More than 400 billion cups of coffee are consumed every year, making it the world’s most popular beverage besides water.
- Green coffee is a commodity and ranks second only to petroleum in terms of dollars traded on the world market.
- Coffee is grown in over 50 countries around the world.
- Most of the world’s coffee is grown in a rather small part of the world between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.
- The average coffee tree can live 20-30 years and is harvested once a year to bear enough cherries to produce 1-1 1/2 lbs of roasted coffee.
- A pound of coffee contains roughly 4,000 beans (from 2,000 cherries).
- A good coffee picker will take 1 1/2 days to fill a coffee bag, a yield of approximately 150 pounds.
- Coffee was first drunk in the mid-fifteenth century.
- The leading coffee producing countries of the world are Brazil and Colombia.
- The United States imports and consumes more coffee than any other country.
Independent from the ubiquitous American chain, the key to Tinto’s success is its “local” atmosphere, home-cooked fare, and Tinto’s signature coffee sourced from its own plantation in Colombia. Every morning customers are treated to hot freshly baked pastries on the counter, and the rich aroma of Colombian coffee. By making our own food fresh everyday (we guarantee 1 Day shelf-life), Tinto has total control over its ingredients, recipes and food preparation. We devise imaginative recipes and source the best quality fresh and wholesome ingredients, using local produce where we can.
