All your base are belong to us. Anyone who spent the late-‘90s on the internet will recognize the proto-meme. It was a meme before we even had a word for it, existing somewhere on the timeline between The Dancing Baby and I Can Has Cheezburger. It is etched into the brain of any chronically online Millennial who spent their formative years in the unsupervised corridors of the pre-social media internet.
I forgot where I was going with all that so we’ll just get to the point. FairWave Specialty Coffee Collective just bought Joe Van Gogh.
Made public on Monday, February 2nd, the Kansas City venture capital-backed specialty coffee conglomerate announced the acquisition of Joe Van Gogh, the three-decade old North Carolina coffee company. It comes exactly one month after the news of FairWave’s purchase of Milwaukee’s Fiddlehead’s Coffee Roasters, making Joe Van Gogh the second North Carolina-based roaster acquired by the conglomerate, after last year’s buy-out of Black & White Coffee Roasters…