Balzac's Coffee Roasters is a Canadian coffee company with sixteen retail locations in the GTA,

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, Niagara, Kitchener, Stratford,

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, and Kingston. The first Balzac’s café was opened in Stratford, Ontario, in 1996, by entrepreneur Diane Olson. The company's headquarters and roastery are now located in

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. Named after the famous French novelist and famed coffee drinker

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, the cafes serve traditional and fair trade blends, as well as espressos, hot chocolate and a variety of cold beverages. Each of Balzac's Coffee Roasters locations has a café poster unique to its district. Balzac's was featured in the sixth season of ''

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''; two of the venture capitalists on the show bought into the company. In 2016, the company started a new business, selling coffee beans in grocery stores across Canada, including Loblaws, Sobeys and Whole Foods.

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* {{official, http://www.balzacs.com/ Coffeehouses and cafés in Canada Companies based in Hamilton, Ontario