Verve Coffee Roasters is a

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based in

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, founded by Colby Barr and Ryan O'Donovan. Verve opened in November, 2007 in

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. The company currently operates in twelve California-based locations, four in Santa Cruz, four in

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, one in

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, one in Manhattan Beach, one in

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, and one on

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's Menlo Park campus. They also have four locations in Japan: one at the

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, Tokyo train station, one in the

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district of Tokyo, one in

Kamakura is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Kamakura has an estimated population of 172,929 (1 September 2020) and a population density of 4,359 persons per km² over the total area of . Kamakura was designated as a city on 3 November 1939. Kamak ...

, and a cafe/roastery in the

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. Verve earned the highest score in the

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category at the

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in 2013 and was also named one of the top coffee roasters in the United States by

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, Complex Magazine, and Food Republic In 2018, they won th
Best Espresso at the Coffee Spot Awards
and in 2021 be nominated for the cafe in Japan at th
World Latitude Caffe Prize.

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