Apr 24, 2020
On the first episode of Seed To Cup, Jordan Michelman interviews Erica Escalante, the founder and entrepreneur behind Cafe Reina and Kitchenhood Commissary in Portland, Oregon. Formerly The Arrow Coffeehouse, Cafe Reina [official website] is a specialty coffee shop, bakery, and busy shared-space commercial kitchen in North Portland, located at the intersection of NE Alberta and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Escalante’s story through coffee leads us up to this moment today, where she has emerged as a small business leader and innovator in the time of COVID-19, adapting her business model in a series of fascinating ways and garnering a gaggle of local news coverage along the way.
Full transcript available here.