DUTCH BROS. SERVES UP A NEW STAND

The Dutch Bros. Coffee stand on Southeast 223rd Avenue and Burnside Street in Gresham has been around to serve customers since 2009. 

Fast forward to 2019: There’s now a new and improved coffee stand building. It looks small on the outside, but it for sure it is bigger, safer, and better for the Dutch Bros. workers to make the drinks inside their building.

The place needed a remodel for a long time, due to many repairs that couldn’t get fixed. “Broistas” is how employees refer to their Baristas (expert coffee servers) work, because their coffee brand is called Dutch Bros., after all.

I remember when I went to Gresham High School, which was right by the stand. When I had the chance to go there, I thought about the building and just how small it was. I wondered how the Broistas were able to always be successful with the drinks they made in that small tight space.

 Their flooring inside was falling apart, so it was hard to walk on. The small patio at their stand was unstable and unsafe, the freezer door didn’t open, and the stand’s air conditioning/heating did not work at all.

 Also, their blender pitcher rinser station did not work so they had to wash their dishes most of the time by hand. Most of their equipment did not work at all and the Broistas were in a very tight and small space as they always had to bump into one another while making the drinks.

The Broistas are much happier in their new stand, and doing a better and faster job of serving the Gresham community. Everything inside works correctly because they have a bigger space inside of their drive-thru with more and better equipment, they have more space to stock all their products, and it is easier for them to move much faster and more efficiently.