Welcome
The first Good Earth Coffeehouse and Bakery opened in Calgary on a hot summer day in 1991. We began with a desire to serve excellent coffee and wholesome, healthful food. In the years since, many other coffee shops have opened, but few have matched the authentic appeal of Good Earth. Now Calgary is home to several Good Earth Coffeehouses. While our local company has grown, we have stayed true to our original mission… to be a coffeehouse with good food.
The good food at Good Earth is made-from-scratch from wholesome ingredients. Freshly baked scones and muffins, hearty soups, uncommon sandwiches, delightful salads, and Good Earth’s popular Mac-n-Cheese (the Queen of Comfort Food), are all made fresh in Good Earth’s kitchens every day. Fresh fruit juices, Good Earth’s Granola, refreshing smoothies and frappes round out the menu.
The full espresso menu uses locally roasted coffee beans, for the freshest coffee possible. (Fresher coffee is simply better tasting coffee.) We offer 100% Organic and Shade Grown coffee, grown using techniques that protect biodiversity. We also include Fair Trade beans in all of our coffee. At Good Earth, a friendly, well-trained Barista makes your latte or cappuccino to order, not some automated machine. You’re sure to get a coffee just the way you like it at Good Earth.
Good Earth’s diverse locations express our commitment to communities. Good Earth’s original location is in a friendly urban neighborhood, where many customers walk to the café. Cafes can also be found in shopping centres, on the bike pathways, inside hospitals and libraries, in office towers and at the University of Calgary.
Our Passion
We create the highest quality coffees, and great-tasting, wholesome foods for our customers’ health and enjoyment.
We create warm, friendly and thought-provoking coffeehouse environments for customers and staff alike.
We create a happy and healthy work environment, in which people treat each other with honesty and respect.
We actively create and support an environment in which customers are delighted by the products we sell, by the people who serve them, and by the atmosphere that we provide.
We conduct ourselves in a socially and environmentally responsible manner, and support others who work to create a better world in which to live.
Our Philosophy
We conduct our business to build relationships with our customers, our suppliers, and our communities. We believe that a business must be an active participant in its community in every way possible, from buying locally to support other businesses, and working with local non-profit organizations' to support their efforts to improve our community, to responding to our customers' needs on an individual basis. This philosophy guides our day-to-day decisions and interactions.
We take great pride in the relationships we have established with our customers. We have seen romances blossom, engagements announced, families grow, business deals solidified, and social circles expanded in our cafes. Good Earth customers express a sense of ownership to us, telling us that Good Earth is as much their place as it is ours.
We seek out and create strong working relationships with local suppliers. These relationships have meant growth for other entrepreneurs as our company has grown. We believe a strong community of businesses can help build a stronger community in general.
We are active in creating a better community for all. In our company's mission statement we express our intention of acting in a socially and environmentally responsible manner. At Good Earth, this is not the icing on the cake. This is the cake. Our company is founded on values. Profits are important to us, but they are the result of doing a host of things properly, rather than being the basis of all our decision-making.
