I was born and grew up in Costa Rica, which is a large, high quality coffee producing country.
When I was a teenager, I worked on coffee plantations, picking coffee during the summer holidays.
I remember getting up early in the morning, having breakfast, and then having coffee with family and friends. There was a very pleasant atmosphere on the plantation, everyone was having a good mood, we mostly talked to other people who were working either behind me or on the other side of the shrub, in the other "street" (that's the name of the space between the
Since I've finished university, I've always had a job where I can see the results, but I can't get them into my hand.
That we change now.
Café Tiko is finally a project whose final product is tangible, and which I do with a partner with whom we have mutual trust, we have known each other for several years and know that the other puts himself out there during work, and so from the first phone call we knew about each other that we can and will do this.
What really drew my attention to the coffee culture was that every time Jose visited his
two coffee shrubs on the plantation).
Years later, after finishing high school and the first year of the information technology university in Heredia, Costa Rica, I came to Hungary as an exchange student in 2009.
After completing the exchange student program, I stayed here because of my love for Hungarian culture.
A few years later, I met Ricsi in our professional worklife, with whom we later dreamed up Café Tiko.
home and family in Costa Rica, he brought back coffee as a gift to his Hungarian friends, including me. I wondered what could be so good and special about this coffee if you come home with the same gift every time?
Since then I know... 🙂
I was born and grew up in Costa Rica, which is a large, high quality coffee producing country.
When I was a teenager, I worked on coffee plantations, picking coffee during the summer holidays.
I remember getting up early in the morning, having breakfast, and then having coffee with family and friends. There was a very pleasant atmosphere on the plantation, everyone was having a good mood, we mostly talked to other people who were working either behind me or on the other side of the shrub, in the other "street" (that's the name of the space between the two coffee shrubs on the plantation).
Years later, after finishing high school and the first year of the information technology university in Heredia, Costa Rica, I came to Hungary as an exchange student in 2009.
After completing the exchange student program, I stayed here because of my love for Hungarian culture.
A few years later, I met Ricsi in our professional worklife, with whom we later dreamed up Café Tiko.
Since I've finished university, I've always had a job where I can see the results, but I can't get them into my hand.
That we change now.
Café Tiko is finally a project whose final product is tangible, and which I do with a partner with whom we have mutual trust, we have known each other for several years and know that the other puts himself out there during work, and so from the first phone call we knew about each other that we can and will do this.
What really drew my attention to the coffee culture was that every time Jose visited his home and family in Costa Rica, he brought back coffee as a gift to his Hungarian friends, including me. I wondered what could be so good and special about this coffee if you come home with the same gift every time?
Since then I know... 🙂
I was born and grew up in Costa Rica, which is a large, high quality coffee producing country.
When I was a teenager, I worked on coffee plantations, picking coffee during the summer holidays.
I remember getting up early in the morning, having breakfast, and then having coffee with family and friends. There was a very pleasant atmosphere on the plantation, everyone was having a good mood, we mostly talked to other people who were working either behind me or on the other side of the shrub, in the other "street" (that's the name of the space between the
two coffee shrubs on the plantation).
Years later, after finishing high school and the first year of the information technology university in Heredia, Costa Rica, I came to Hungary as an exchange student in 2009.
After completing the exchange student program, I stayed here because of my love for Hungarian culture.
A few years later, I met Ricsi in our professional worklife, with whom we later dreamed up Café Tiko.
Since I've finished university, I've always had a job where I can see the results, but I can't get them into my hand.
That we change now.
Café Tiko is finally a project whose final product is tangible, and which I do with a partner with whom we have mutual trust, we have known each other for several years and know that the other puts himself out there during work, and so from the first phone call we knew about each other that we can and will do this.
What really drew my attention to the coffee culture was that every time Jose visited his home and family in Costa Rica, he brought back coffee as a gift to his Hungarian friends, including me. I wondered what could be so good and special about this coffee if you come home with the same gift every time?
Since then I know... 🙂