MAPS Coffee & Chocolate

MAPS Coffee & Chocolate is a specialty coffee roaster and bean-to-bar chocolate maker in Old Town Lenexa, Kansas, founded by Vincent Rodriguez — a former Starbucks employee who turned a handmade-bicycle shop into a café that roasts its own coffee and makes chocolate from scratch with no additives.

Description

MAPS Coffee & Chocolate roasts specialty coffee in-house and makes chocolate from scratch with clean ingredients at its café in Old Town Lenexa.¹ Owner Vincent Rodriguez starts each chocolate bar with cacao, cocoa butter, and turbinado sugar, with no additives, preservatives, or soy lecithin.² The café occupies the former bike-shop space — reconfigured with seating for roughly 19 — pairing chocolate production with an eco-conscious coffee-roasting operation.² The shop also offers private sessions teaching how the team roasts coffee and makes chocolate.¹

Ownership and history

Owner Vincent Rodriguez left nearly two decades in a corporate job at Starbucks and in 2013 opened a shop where he built handmade bicycles in a back workshop.³ About a year later he bought a coffee roaster and began roasting; word spread through the local cycling community.³ He began making chocolate in 2016 — initially with help from his grandmother’s molcajete, a traditional Mexican grinding tool — and launched Maps Chocolate in 2017.³² By 2018 the coffee and chocolate side had grown enough that Rodriguez sold the bike shop and converted the space into the café.³² A longtime map lover and avid cyclist, Rodriguez chose the name “Maps” to reflect the business’s origins as a Lenexa bike shop.³

Links

• Website: https://mapscoffee.com/
• Location/hours: https://mapscoffee.com/pages/maps-coffee-chocolate-location-lenexa
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mapscoffeekc/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mapscoffeekc/

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Footnotes

1. Maps Coffee & Chocolate — Location page. https://mapscoffee.com/pages/maps-coffee-chocolate-location-lenexa — asserts: address 13440 Santa Fe Trail Dr, Lenexa, KS 66215; phone (913) 444-5252; hours Mon–Fri 7am–3pm, Sat 8am–3pm, Sun 9am–2pm; in-house roasting and from-scratch chocolate. ↩ ↩²

2. The Chocolate Professor profile (same article) — asserts: chocolate made from cacao, cocoa butter, turbinado sugar with no additives, preservatives, or soy lecithin; bike shop closed 2018 and was converted to a café with seating for ~19 plus coffee roasting. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

3. “Chocolate Shops We Love: Maps Coffee and Chocolate” — The Chocolate Professor. https://www.thechocolateprofessor.com/blog/chocolate-shops-we-love-maps-coffee-and-chocolate — asserts: owner Vincent Rodriguez; left Starbucks corporate job; opened handmade-bicycle shop in 2013; bought roaster ~a year later; began chocolate in 2016 with grandmother’s molcajete; launched Maps Chocolate 2017; sold bike shop 2018; name reflects map/cycling passion and bike-shop origins. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵