Vittoria Coffee is a brand of
coffee
Coffee is a drink prepared from roasted coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content. It is the most popular hot drink in the world.
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products manufactured by Vittoria Food and Beverage of Australia. Founded in
Sydney in 1947 by brothers Orazio and Carmelo Cantarella,
[ the business was established as an importer of Continental European foods.
In 1958 the brothers began roasting small amounts of premium Arabica coffee at their food importing premises in the Sydney's suburb of ]Haymarket Haymarket may refer to:
Places
Australia
* Haymarket, New South Wales, area of Sydney, Australia
Germany
* Heumarkt (KVB), transport interchange in Cologne on the site of the Heumarkt (literally: hay market)
Russia
* Sennaya Square (''Hay Squ ...
, initially supplying Sydney's first ‘Italian cafés’.
Today the company is owned by the Schirato family with CEO Les Schirato
Leslie J. Schirato (born 1955), nicknamed “Australia’s Coffee King”, is an Australian entrepreneur and the chief executive officer of Vittoria Food & Beverage (Cantarella Bros), an Australian supplier and distributor of European food.
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AM [ joined by his son Rolando Schirato as Managing Director.
Vittoria Coffee began an expansion into the United States market in 2014, headed by Rolando][ and remains Australia's number one pure coffee brand, served in restaurants and cafés around the world.
As well as producing ]Nespresso
Nestlé Nespresso S.A., trading as Nespresso, is an operating unit of the Nestlé Group, based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Nespresso machines brew espresso and coffee from coffee capsules (or ''pods'' in machines for home or professional use) ...
-compatible pods, Vittoria has its own pods and brewing machines under the ''Espressotoria'' brand.
See also
* List of restaurant chains in Australia
This is a list of notable restaurant chains in Australia. A restaurant chain is a set of related restaurants with the same name in many different locations that are either under shared corporate ownership (e.g., McDonald's in the U.S.) or franchi ...
References
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{{Food chains in Australia
Coffee brands
Food and drink companies established in 1958
Coffee companies of Australia
Australian companies established in 1958
Silverwater, New South Wales