Populace Coffee was founded in 2010 by Andrew Heppner after working in Los Angeles for the previous 2 years at Intelligentsia Coffee in Venice Beach, CA.

Andrew is a Bay City child and grew up visiting downtown Bay City, graduating from Bay City Central, he spent lots of time watching the city grow.

Fast forward a few years and everything was playing out the way it was imagined. There was a thriving roasting business, an online business, and at their peak, 3 operating cafes from Detroit to Bay City to Petoskey.

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