THE COMPANY• Name: Revelator Coffee Company• Owner: Josh Owen (majority investor), Emma Chevalier, Elizabeth Pogue• Locations: 60 N. Market St., 45 E. Main St.• Service: Coffee shop• How it got started: Venture capitalist Josh Owen• Initial investment: $2 million• Five-year goal: To open more Revelator stores across the Southeast and grow into a regional brand• Why Chattanooga: Owen said having visited Chattanooga, he liked the city’s walkability and happened to find two usable locations for stores• What is unique?: Owen said Revelator will not be like “fancy” and “snobby” craft coffee shops. Rather than fashioning European architecture and looks inside, Revelator stores will feel American, with a diner atmosphere.• Website: www.revelatorcoffee.com• Contact: Revelator Coffee Company, 822 St. Peter St., New Orleans, La., 70116
Planned locations for Revelator Coffee Company in Chattanooga.There is a ripe harvest in the Southeast.
Not of coffee.
But of coffee drinkers, says Josh Owen, primary investor in Revelator Coffee Company.
Owen is a Berkely, Calif., resident but is setting up a coffee company in New Orleans, and Chattanooga is on his list of first cities to get a Revelator location.