Wacker's Kaffee

Wacker's Kaffee traces back to 1914, when Luise Wacker opened a delicatessen at Frankfurt's Kornmarkt at the age of 26; the business has stayed in family hands since. Its roasting is built around what the company calls a Langzeitröstverfahren, a long-time roasting process developed over generations, with beans roasted daily from early morning through late afternoon at the Kornmarkt site. The single-origin list includes Guatemala Lampocoy, Nicaragua Hochland, Peru Cajamarca, and Bolivia de la Frontera, alongside bio and Fairtrade-certified options — the company states directly that it wants coffee farmers to receive a fair price for what it calls a labor-intensive product. Beyond the beans, Wacker's makes Espressoböhnchen, chocolate-coated espresso beans sold as a specialty item. The original Kornmarkt shop has since been joined by cafes on Schweizer Straße, Berger Straße, and Grüneburgweg, spreading the roastery's presence across several Frankfurt neighborhoods. More than a century after Luise Wacker's delicatessen opened, the company still frames its identity around that founding, using the line 'Mit Liebe zur Tradition seit 1914' — with love for tradition since 1914 — as its own summary of what the business is.