Ama's Blog — entrepreneurship

By Claudia Quezada  The west coast of Puerto Rico is home to many wonderful restaurants, including Vittata Gastropub in Aguadilla. Here you can find a delicious menu featuring a merge of Puerto Rican and international cuisine, accompanied by a wide variety of house cocktails. In addition to its tropical feel and ocean view, the restaurant makes a mesmerizing brunch destination. On May 30, Vittata Gastroprub invited Café Ama Love to their restaurant where we served our product for the day. Knowing that our beans are locally grown in Puerto Rico really suited the restaurant's theme. The freshly brewed taste and its powerful aroma quickly made customers try our coffee and take the product home. This became a great event...

By Claudia Quezada Chicago got a taste of coffee with purpose! On May 8, our Café Ama coffee arrived at the Mercado del Pueblo in Humboldt Park, where we joined a Puerto Rican community in their weekly event hosted by the Puerto Rican Cultural Center. Upon arrival, we could instantly feel the amazing and welcoming energy everyone had. As we started brewing our coffee, people would visit our booth -- excited to learn that our beans were directly from Puerto Rico! It was like bringing the community a little piece of our island to them. We were lucky enough to receive a...

By Amapola Everything I didn't know about this great day This day has been celebrated since October 15th, 2008, when it was declared so by the United Nations. Its purpose is to recognize the hard work of these great women and their contribution to global development, food safety and the eradication of poverty. Rural women also help global climate by sowing, taking care of soil and collecting water for small populations. Did you know rural women represent ¼ of the world's population and just under 20% of landowners in the world are female? I didn't know that either.  It turns out,...

 By: Desiree Mieses, Managing Partner at Lumiere Bay   Being born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and since I can remember, coffee has been a part of my mornings. I studied my Bachelor’s and Master’s in Business Administration at Bentley University in Massachusetts and worked over 29 years in the financial industry.  Working in this industry allowed me to understand the importance of building relationships. As Puerto Ricans we are known to meet for “Cafecito” and when you work in finance, it becomes a necessary activity. When I was first introduced to Café Ama in December of 2019, I was...