Sunday, August 7, 2011

Alfred Peet

Country of origin: Netherlands

Alfred H. Peet (March 10, 1920 – August 29, 2007) was a Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea in Berkeley, California, in 1966. He is most famous for introducing custom coffee roasting to the United States.


To read more about Alfred Peet, visit his page on Wikipedia.

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