My path to coffee started with racquetball. During a regional tournament, I played against the owner of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. We became friends and he brought me on as an unpaid intern. I became his first full-time employee and through his urging, a coffee evangelist. Now, I am a leading authority on the Specialty Coffee Industry with more than 39 years of practical experience in management, roasting, cupping, product development, sales, and marketing. As the founder of Dan Cox & Associates, I have been hired on more than 58 hot spill burn lawsuits as an expert witness and consultant in hot beverage litigation.My company Coffee Enterprises has provided world-class consulting, technical services, and business intelligence to the coffee & tea industries since 1992.I am the author of Handling Hot Coffee: Preventing Spills, Burns, and Lawsuits, and Coffee: Too Hot to Handle or Mishandled: A Guide to Hot Beverage Spills and Burn Lawsuits.I co-founded the non-profit Grounds for Health, which works to reduce cervical cancer among women in coffee-producing countries, in 1996.
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