About Us
Our Story
The Early Years
We opened Main Street Coffee House in 2003 in the former B&B restaurant, right in the heart of downtown Nappanee. Our vision was simple — create a welcoming space where community could happen and friendships could grow. The community quickly embraced the shop, and we loved watching connections form over coffee. Within two years, we began planning an expansion into the building next door, adding more seating, a larger baking facility, and extra storage to better serve our guests.
The highlight of our expansion was adding an in-house roasting facility, giving us greater quality control and a better product. Marcus quickly fell in love with the craft, and by 2008 was roasting full-time and managing the shop. This opened the door to roasting not only for our own guests, but also for other local businesses.
We opened up coffee shops both in Elkhart and South Bend, but eventually decided that running multiple locations was making us too scattered, both as a business and as a family.As a result, we made the difficult decision to close doors and focus our attention solely on our hometown Nappanee location, as well as growing our roasting brand. Although we miss our customers from the other cities, we are grateful for the loyalty of many of you who still come to see us occasionally in Nappanee.
Growth & Expansion
In 2017, we entered the next phase of expansion when we moved our roasting facilities into a separate building just a few doors down from the coffee house.
At the same time, we upgraded to a larger coffee roaster. This added space in the roastery has given us the ability to be able to operate more efficiently with increased space for coffee storage and order processing. After the coffee roasting facilities moved out of the coffee house, we began the final phase of our expansion project. This involved opening up the old roasting space for more retail and seating space.
This expansion has given us the ability to host our guests in a large, comfortable atmosphere that includes small and large dining tables, lounge areas, a library, conference rooms, and more. During this phase, we restructured and rebranded our company under the name “Main Street Roasters” so that our coffee brand would be consistent both locally and online.
Thank You
Since 2018, we have experienced growth in our brick and mortar and online businesses. Adding additional space was not without challenges, as we all had to adapt to the change in volume and learn to grow through all of the ups and downs of the past few years.
We credit God for his faithfulness- and also an amazing team helping manage our business every day.
We couldn't end this story without thanking you, our customer, for entrusting us over the years. Thank you to all of you who have supported us - both locally and online. We are truly grateful.
Marcus & Debra Miller, Grace, Hailey, Carson, Brooky, Alli
We opened Main Street Coffee House in 2003 in the former B&B restaurant, right in the heart of downtown Nappanee. Our vision was simple—create a welcoming space where community could happen and friendships could grow. The community quickly embraced the shop, and we loved watching connections form over coffee. Within two years, we began planning an expansion into the building next door, adding more seating, a larger baking facility, and extra storage to better serve our guests.
The highlight of our expansion was adding an in-house roasting facility, giving us greater quality control and a better product. Marcus quickly fell in love with the craft, and by 2008 was roasting full-time and managing the shop. This opened the door to roasting not only for our own guests, but also for other local businesses.
We opened up coffee shops both in Elkhart and South Bend, but eventually decided that running multiple locations was making us too scattered, both as a business and as a family.As a result, we made the difficult decision to close doors and focus our attention solely on our hometown Nappanee location, as well as growing our roasting brand. Although we miss our customers from the other cities, we are grateful for the loyalty of many of you who still come to see us occasionally in Nappanee.
In 2017, we entered the next phase of expansion when we moved our roasting facilities into a separate building just a few doors down from the coffee house.
At the same time, we upgraded to a larger coffee roaster. This added space in the roastery has given us the ability to be able to operate more efficiently with increased space for coffee storage and order processing. After the coffee roasting facilities moved out of the coffee house, we began the final phase of our expansion project. This involved opening up the old roasting space for more retail and seating space.
This expansion has given us the ability to host our guests in a large, comfortable atmosphere that includes small and large dining tables, lounge areas, a library, conference rooms, and more. During this phase, we restructured and rebranded our company under the name “Main Street Roasters” so that our coffee brand would be consistent both locally and online.
Since 2018, we have experienced growth in our brick and mortar and online businesses. Adding additional space was not without challenges, as we all had to adapt to the change in volume and learn to grow through all of the ups and downs of the past few years.
We credit God for his faithfulness- and also an amazing team helping manage our business every day.
We couldn't end this story without thanking you, our customer, for entrusting us over the years. Thank you to all of you who have supported us - both locally and online. We are truly grateful.
Marcus & Debra Miller, Grace, Hailey, Carson, Brooky, Alli
We opened up coffee shops both in Elkhart and South Bend, but eventually decided that running multiple locations was making us too scattered, both as a business and as a family. As a result, we made the difficult decision to close doors and focus our attention solely on our hometown Nappanee location, as well as growing our roasting brand. Although we miss our customers from the other cities, we are grateful for the loyalty of many of you who still come to see us occasionally in Nappanee.
