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How Find My Roasters Works
No self-service, no affiliate links, no padded numbers. Exactly how every roaster on the map gets checked before it's listed, and what happens when something changes.
"Independently verified" only means something if you can see exactly what that involved. This page is that -- not a vague trust badge, the actual process, so you can decide for yourself whether it holds up.
No self-service, on purpose
This isn't an open directory anyone can add themselves to. There's no submission form that writes straight to the list. Every one of the 97 roasters currently on the map was added by a person, by hand, after a real check — not because a roaster paid for a listing, asked nicely, or filled out a form.
The bar for adding a roaster
Two things have to both be true before a roaster goes on the map:
- A direct look at the roaster's own website — confirming it's real, currently operating, and that the domain actually belongs to them. We check for live signals: a current-year copyright, a working cart or subscription flow, posted hours, a real street address. A roaster with no site of its own, or whose domain has been resold or quietly redirected somewhere else, doesn't get listed — no matter how well-reviewed the business is elsewhere.
- At least one independent source, separate from the roaster's own site — local press, a tourism or business directory, Wikipedia, a state-level certification registry. One source alone is never enough, even if that source is the roaster's own website. A third-party roaster directory can hand us a candidate name to go check; it never counts as the corroborating source on its own.
Every card on the map has a "Source" line stating exactly what was checked and when — not a bare "verified" badge with nothing behind it.
What happens when something changes
Small, independent businesses close, get acquired, or move. Already-listed roasters get spot-checked on a standing schedule, not just left up indefinitely once added. If a roaster is acquired but still real, operating, and recognizably itself, the listing stays with an updated note. If a roaster is genuinely gone — the business closed, or the domain no longer resolves to anything resembling the original roaster — it comes off the map. The bar for staying listed is the same bar as the bar for getting listed in the first place.
No affiliate or referral links
Not one listing on this map carries a referral or affiliate link today. Every "Visit site" button goes straight to the roaster's own website, the same as a plain bookmark would. Whether a roaster is listed, or how prominently, has nothing to do with any commercial relationship — because there isn't one.
Know a roaster who should be here?
Get in touch with the name and a city or website, and it goes through the exact same check as everything already listed — a reader's recommendation is a good reason to go look, not a shortcut around the bar above.
Read the honest case for buying from a local roaster — including the claims we won't make — or go straight back to the map itself.