I had someone ask about how we came up with the name Fidalgo Bay Coffee…

Fidalgo Bay Coffee started out in 1992 as Fidalgo Bay Roasting Company. Our founders Gary and Sandy Sawyer purchased a small town candy shop called “Sweet and Sassy” converting it into a coffee and dessert venue that also roasted and sold fresh coffee. To highlight the localness of the business, Fidalgo Bay was chosen due to a local bay called, what else “Fidalgo Bay”. Anacortes, the location of our first store is on Fidalgo Island. Roasting Company was an obvious choice until people who had never heard of us began to ask, “Now what do you roast? Chicken?” We even had someone setup a website in an attempt to get our design business advertising our superb fresh roasted chicken. That combined with the mouthful of saying “roasting company” convinced us to clarify what our core business was about, Coffee. Of course, we want people to know that we do roast the coffee ourselves, but it is even more important for them to know first what we roast.

That’s our story, I just wish I saved a copy of the chicken website. It was taken down quickly.