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Michael Phillips is a
barista A barista ( , ; ) is a person, usually a coffeehouse employee, who prepares and serves espresso-based coffee drinks and other beverages. Etymology and inflection The word comes from Italian, where it means a "bartender" who typically works be ...
who won the United States Barista Championship in Portland, Oregon, in March 2009, while working at
Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea Intelligentsia Coffee is an American coffee roasting company and retailer based in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1995 by Doug Zell and Emily Mange, Intelligentsia is considered a major representative of third-wave coffee in the United States. I ...
in Chicago, IL. He also won the 2010 United States Barista Championship, becoming the second repeat U.S. champion. He has since become the first US Barista to win the
World Barista Championship The World Barista Championship (WBC) is an annual barista competition operated by World Coffee Events for the title of World Barista Champion. The competition is composed of the winners of the national barista championships, which are operated by ...
in London, England, in 2010. At the March 2011 TED conferences (standing for Technology, Entertainment, Design) in California, Phillips was present at Coffee Common, a new organization with what was called "the unapologetically idealistic purpose to create a community with shared values." In April 2011, Phillips resigned from his position as director of coffee education at Intelligentsia to help found the Handsome Coffee Roasters in Los Angeles, California, with Tyler Wells and Chris Owens. In 2014,
Blue Bottle Coffee Company Blue Bottle Coffee, Inc., is a coffee roaster and retailer once headquartered in Oakland, California, United States. In 2017, a majority stake in the company was acquired by Nestlé (68%). It is a major player in Third wave of coffee, third wave ...
purchased Handsome Coffee Roasters. Philips was born in the United States and spent his early life in
Royal Oak, Michigan Royal Oak is a city in Oakland County, Michigan, Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. An inner-ring suburb of Metro Detroit, Detroit, Royal Oak is located roughly north of downtown Detroit. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 cens ...
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