Thump Coffee is featured in the January 2009 issue of Fresh Cup Magazine, a monthly national publication for specialty coffee and tea professionals. The two-page “Café Crossroads – Retailer Spotlight” article includes a Q&A-style interview with Thump owners, Kent and Hazel Chapple. Photos of the shop’s interior and exterior taken by Thump barista Steven Chaprnka and Bend photographer Ross Chandler accompany the article.

“Café Crossroad is Fresh Cup’s most popular monthly column,” says Julie Beals, Fresh Cup editor. “All of our surveys/research and anecdotal evidence clearly show that our readers love it.”

Click here to read a PDF of the Fresh Cup Magazine, “Cafe Crossroads,” January 2009.

Here’s the introduction to the Café Crossroads article:  “Thump may not be an obvious name for a coffeehouse — it could have any number of meanings without signaling a particular identity,” writes Chris Ryan, associate editor at Fresh Cup Magazine. “But ambiguity is exactly what led Thump owners Kent and Hazel Chapple to choose it. ‘We all had different interpretations of what it means,’ Kent says. ‘We realized that the word ‘thump’ resonates with a lot of people on a lot of different levels.’ So, too, is the coffeehouse resonating with customers — located in downtown Bend, Thump has been serving specialty coffee to the city’s growing population for the last two years.”

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