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In a city full of self-starters and go-getters, New York is an ongoing contributor to the growing sentiment that \u201ceveryone\u2019s a roaster now.\u201d This caffeine-fueled entrepreneurial jungle is continuously teeming with aspiring business owners, new cafes, and roasting companies despite the city\u2019s continual crunch for real estate. It\u2019s no wonder WeWork and other shared-facility co-working communities thrive in a landscape with a lack of affordable space. Paolo and Chisato Maliksi\u2019s Regalia Roasting Collective<\/a>\u00a0is the next logical step in the coffee chain\u2014it\u2019s a shared roasting space and wholesale venture for both brand new coffee professionals and those venturing over from the restaurant world.<\/p>\n The Maliksis launched Regalia in a Long Island City in 2018, located below the owners\u2019 own apartment.\u00a0Their intention is to provide a welcoming space for aspiring roasters, but particularly those in the rest of the food and beverage world. Additionally, Maliksi wanted to give more creative and financial freedom to businesses outside of what coffee wholesale programs have to offer them.<\/p>\n Paolo and Chisato Maliksi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cI pretty much think that every specialty coffee roaster provides an \u00e0 la carte menu and makes you buy from that \u00e0 la carte menu, and if we just think about it like that, there\u2019s nothing really specialized about that,\u201d Paolo Maliksi says. \u201cIt\u2019s just like, \u2018Here are my offerings. Please buy [them]. And we\u2019ll do the best we can to ensure that you continue to make it taste good.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Regalia gives clients the power to take full reign of their own supply. They not only teach interested parties how to roast, but also how to source their own green coffee. The first taste is free: Regalia offers a complimentary introductory two-hour roasting session to get themselves familiarized with Regalia\u2019s 15kg Mill City<\/a> roaster, along with their QC accessories\u2014a Decent DE1Pro<\/a>, Mahlk\u00f6nig EK43<\/a>, FETCO CBS 1131 V+<\/a>, refractometry equipment, moisture analyzer, cupping equipment, and various minerals for building water. They also offer climate-controlled green storage and green coffee pickup from New Jersey\u2019s Continental Terminals\u2014acting as \u201cthe Uber of Coffee,\u201d as Maliksi says.<\/p>\n \u201cThe mission is to lower the barrier into entry into roasting,\u201d Maliksi says. \u201cIt used to be this secret, invite-only, you\u2019re not ready for roasting kind of thing. But people can come in, they can go through the session. If they say it\u2019s not for them, now they know about it.\u00a0We are not just about renting the roaster to other people who want to start companies. We are out there to rent the roaster to cafes and bakeries.\u201d<\/p>\n To hone his focus, Maliksi first studied current roasting collective operations worldwide, including\u00a0Pulley Collective<\/a> (with locations in Brooklyn and Oakland). Combining the cost of a dedicated roasting space, green coffee and storage, and workers\u2019 hourly wages, Maliksi sees the shared Regalia space as a way for business owners to offer true specialty roasting experience at a fraction of the cost of starting a brand new facility.\u00a0However, if the idea of roasting remains daunting despite the savings, Regalia offers \u201cghost roasting\u201d toll services and private labeling, along with a subscription service of their own roasts. There\u2019s also a traditional wholesale coffee program with outsourced tech support and weekend open houses for clients to showcase their offerings to the public.<\/p>\n On a regular weekday, a visit to Regalia shows one person roasting, and perhaps another one in the corner packaging their own offerings, while another is busy cupping their latest batches and trying to get feedback from you. With upcoming plans to bring in other complementary businesses to the space (e.g. graphic and interior designers), the Maliksis see Regalia becoming a bigger community moving forward\u2014in step, it would seem, with coffee itself.<\/p>\n Katrina Yentch<\/a>\u00a0is a Sprudge contributor based in New York City and the online editor for Barista Magazine. Read more\u00a0Katrina Yentch on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Inside Regalia Roasting Collective, A Shared Roasting Space In Long Island City<\/a> appeared first on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source: Coffee News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a city full of self-starters and go-getters, New York is an ongoing contributor to the growing sentiment that \u201ceveryone\u2019s a roaster now.\u201d This caffeine-fueled entrepreneurial jungle is continuously teeming…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[63,45,65,47,61,49,59,55,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n![\"regalia](\"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/file\/2019\/01\/Regalia_Company_Paolo_Chisato_Katrina_Yentch_14-1170x775.jpg\")
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<\/p>\nRegalia Roasting Collective is located at\u00a039-02 Crescent St, Long Island City<\/a>. Visit their official website<\/a> and follow them on Instagram<\/a>.<\/div>\n