Good coffee.Long shifts.No excuses.
We know what a 12-hour shift feels like. We know what passes for coffee in most break rooms.
We figured it was time to do something about it.
Welcome to Loading Dose Coffee Co.
I'm a nurse and a veteran: cardiac ICU, interventional radiology, neuro-trauma. The coffee in those buildings never changed. A scorched pot from 0500, powdered creamer, cups gone by noon. We were keeping everyone else alive on the worst coffee in the county.
Right after graduating nursing school, I went on a month-long charity bike ride and cardiac arrested on it. Three weeks later I started in the cardiac ICU, taking care of the kind of room I'd been the patient in. When the burnout caught up, that sent me to business school.
A loading dose is the first, bigger dose that gets a drug to therapeutic level fast. That's the first cup of a shift. Mine never changed: one cup on the drive in, finished somewhere in report. Then nothing until two or three, when the last hit carried the final push. Later I started roasting in my kitchen, and eventually chose Barriques in Wisconsin to roast the lineup. That's how a kitchen roaster became a real company.
A little better goes a long way.
We've worked the long shifts, missed the breaks, and survived on whatever coffee was left in the break room.
Loading Dose Coffee Co. was built on a simple idea: the people taking care of everyone else deserve great coffee.
We can't fix short staffing or make the call lights stop ringing.
But we can make the coffee better.
The break room deserves better.
One lesson from the military and the hard units: when things get difficult, you take care of the person next to you. That's the whole company.
Getting good coffee to people who don't get a break.
Tyler, RNRN · Veteran · MBA candidate
Standing orders
Effective every shift
- 01
Coffee first. It has to be excellent before any of the rest works.
- 02
Language from inside. No jokes about healthcare from the outside.
- 03
Take care of the person next to you. Non-negotiable.
The Drip Line Fund
Ten percent of profits is reserved for coffee deliveries to nominated break rooms. Deliveries depend on facility approval, and completed distributions will be published here.
You buy a bag
Ten percent of profits is reserved for the fund.
A unit gets nominated
Healthcare staff can put a break room forward for review.
We coordinate delivery
With facility approval, we stock the room and publish the completed distribution.
Nominate a break room
Know a unit that could use better coffee? Tell us.