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Student
Entrepreneurs Launch Clemson Coffee Roasting Company
Clemson
- With the launch of MicroJoe, the Department of Food Science and
Human Nutrition at
Clemson
University
is playing a pivotal role in helping “incubate entrepreneurial
personalities” of students majoring in Food Science.
The food industry is the largest manufacturing industry in
the
U.S.
and the average starting salary for students graduating with a B.S.
degree in Food Science is $45,000.
MicroJoe
(The Clemson University Coffee Roasting Company), is a new division
of the already successful student run Clemson University
MicroCreamery.
“I’m a visual learner so this is a fantastic way for me to apply
what I have been taught in class.
We have great professional development opportunities also
because experience is just as important as good grades.” said Beth
Roberson, a junior majoring in Food Science and the student manager
of operations.
Dr.
Johnny McGregor
, Dept. chair of Food Science and Human Nutrition, adds “This
project has a real strong academic focus where our students learn to
work together to solve real problems and get training in the food
science area, and that leads to outstanding employment
opportunities. One of
the most exciting things to watch is that these students are taking
ownership and creating something really special.”
Clemson
students will be blending and roasting coffee products for the new
University Union operated Loggia Latté Coffee Shop, located in the
heart of the Clemson campus near Tillman Hall.
Students have already developed a new coffee beverage called the
MicroJoe Freeze. The Joe
Freeze is a blended concoction of “Big Daddy Joe” (their
specialty espresso blend) and Clemson’s world famous ice cream.
Campus
clientele and visitors will also be able to purchase bags of their
“Stumphouse Mountain Blend” coffee for home brew.
The coffee is a blend of specially selected Columbian and
Brazilian coffees that was created to honor
Clemson
University
’s longstanding blue cheese tradition.
Clemson’s blue cheese was originally aged in the Stumphouse
Mountain
tunnel located
in the South Carolina Foothills.
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