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Jeff Kennedy, coffee roaster

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Jeff Kennedy, a legendary pioneer of New Zealand's café culture, talks about his Wellington café and coffee-roasting business, both called Caffe L'affare, in 1991. The nationwide network of small coffee-roasting companies is a recent type of workship industry that shows no signs of decline.

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Ian Hunter, Workshop industries – The first New Zealand workshops, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/26032/jeff-kennedy-coffee-roaster (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Ian Hunter, published 26 February 2010.