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Woods Coffee

Industry	Restaurants Retail coffee and tea
Founded	Lynden, Washington (2002 (2002))
Headquarters	Lynden, Washington
Number of locations	19
Area served	Western Washington
Products	Whole Bean Coffee Made-to-order beverages Baked goods Merchandise Frappe beverages Smoothies
Number of employees	200 (as of 2011)

Woods Coffee is a regional coffeehouse chain based in the Pacific Northwest, with 19 coffeehouse locations. It is based in Bellingham, Washington, and primarily serves northwestern Washington. The chain was founded in Lynden, Washington, in 2002.

History

Woods Coffee was established in 2002 by the Herman family of Lynden, Washington. With a dream of starting a chain of coffee shops, the Hermans pooled their talents and resources to create the first Woods Coffee shop in Lynden. "

In early 2005, Woods Coffee updated their earlier customer loyalty program, one involving paper cards that were punched at the time of purchase. The new system used radio-frequency identification (RFID) embedded in plastic cards suitable for carrying in a wallet or on a keychain. The RFID system was named SpeedBean, and by 2007 when Woods Coffee operated six coffee shops, about 7,500 SpeedBean cards were in use, carried by about 40% of customers. The cards were replenished automatically with funds drawn from the customer's bank account or credit card. The system accounted for 26% of all transactions in 2007, and it was determined that customers using the RFID system spent 22% more than customers paying cash.

In October 2008, the Bellingham/Whatcom Chamber of Commerce & Industry chose Woods Coffee as the Green Business of the Year. Two months later, The Bellingham Herald in its annual awards issue announced Woods Coffee as the best local coffee. The next year, the newspaper announced that the company ran the best coffee shop.

In January 2011, Woods Coffee opened their own bakery and introduced a line of in-house baked goods after realizing that outsourcing the baking to other companies did not maintain the quality of non-Fair Trade goods the company regularly sold, including sandwiches and bakery products.

In January 2014, Woods Coffee began serving its own in-house roasted coffee. and in April 2016, Woods Coffee opened Woods Coffee Roastery, a public roasting and tasting room, which includes a brew bar and a 300-gallon twin tank cold brew system.

Locations

Woods Coffee's first coffee shop was opened in February 2002 near Bender Fields in Lynden, Washington. The chain has since opened other locations in the Lynden area.

A Bellevue store opened in 2016 was the chain's first King County location.

The company opened its first Canadian location in Tsawwassen, British Columbia, in July 2016. It remained the sole international location of Woods Coffee until it closed in 2019 and was replaced with a new coffeeshop that retained the same staff.