Eileen Rinaldi managed a Torrefazione Italia in the Financial District before opening Ritual’s first café, where roasting began on a 5 kilo Probat in 2006. A production roastery in SoMa followed in 2009, and a retrofitted 1950s Probat UG-22 in 2010. Coffees come from producers in Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Mexico, Colombia, and Guatemala, bought through a relationship-based sourcing model begun in 2007.
Staff origin trips went to Honduras in 2014 and El Salvador in 2016. A new café is scheduled to open on October 22, 2026 at California and Battery in the Financial District, in the building that housed the Torrefazione Italia Rinaldi once managed.
Roasting
Roasts in-house · Sourced from Colombia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico