Bridgehead Coffee

Founded in 1981 in Toronto by two United Church ministers and two lay people, Bridgehead is a small fair trade coffeehouse chain which now has twelve outlets in Ottawa, Canada. In addition to coffee and organic teas, it sells snacks as well as soups and salads made in its own kitchen. In November 2006, Bridgehead was again voted Ottawa’s “Best Coffee/Tea House” by readers of Ottawa XPress, a widely-read lifestyle weekly. Bridgehead also sells coffee by mail through its website. Bridgehead’s steady expansion from one outlet in 2000 to nine in 2008 came after the original Bridgehead closed. A profile of Bridgehead’s post-Oxfam management in the Ottawa Citizen claimed that Oxfam Canada's Bridgehead ultimately failed in the mid-1990s due...