Provis Coffee Roasters

Provis Coffee Roasters is a North Kansas City specialty roaster, founded 2025, selling roasted-to-order bags from proviscoffee.com while it finishes a two-story café and roastery at 2914 N. Buchanan St. in the Blume NKC development. First-party copy on 18 September 2026 still read Grand Opening Sept. 26 — the public café had not yet opened. Partners Ronni and Kristen Kurtz, Josh and Meagan Brown, and Jesse and Laura Worcester; lead roaster Randall Buchanan, hired from St. Louis. The name is Abel Magwitch’s alias in Dickens’s Great Expectations.

Description

Provis is already a mail-order and wholesale roaster. The About page and homepage, read 18 September 2026, sell single origins and house blends “roasted the week you order them,” a Reserve series, and merch, with a repeating banner: café + roastery, Grand Opening Sept. 26, 2914 Buchanan St.¹ Contact hours for the business (not the café) were Monday–Friday 8 a.m.–5 p.m. CT, weekend closed, “orders still processing.”²

The literary theme is first-party, not a critic’s gloss. The name is Magwitch’s “Provis” alias in Great Expectations; the seal is a pointer named Turk (after Dickens’s mastiff) carrying a crown-flag the company reads as Kansas City — Royals, Monarchs, Hallmark — ringed with coffee cherries.¹ Four stated values: Craftsmanship, Hospitality, Beauty, Stories.¹

The Star (3 April 2026) had the partners aiming at a summer café opening in Blume NKC, with pour-overs, espresso, “really high-end specialty coffee” and “really fun, normal milk-based drinks,” every chair near an outlet, and an ambition to put Kansas City back into national competitions such as Brewers Cup.³ Sprudge’s May 2026 build-out (told by Buchanan) hoped for 1 August 2026 and described a ~6,000-square-foot two-story shop with a cupping lab, La Marzocco Strada, Poursteady, and an upstairs Slayer for slow-bar Saturdays.⁴ First-party in September had slipped to 26 September. Print the slip; do not pick a winner.

First-party retail examples on the About page the day of this draft (café drinks were not yet on a menu): Brazil Ipe Amarelo $10.50 / $19.00 bag sizes; “Beauty in the Ordinary” shirt $30.00.¹ Those are bag/merch prices, not a café board.

Ownership and history

Six named partners in The Star: Ronni and Kristen Kurtz, Josh and Meagan Brown, Jesse and Laura Worcester.³ Ronni Kurtz is Josh Brown’s uncle, four years apart; Kurtz called them “more like brothers.”³ Jesse Worcester and Josh Brown “work in finance and are affiliated with Kansas City-based chain Hawaiian Bros, as well as a few other ventures.”³ That is an affiliation of two partners, not a statement that Hawaiian Bros owns Provis. No source this pass says otherwise. **** if a later filing shows a parent.

Brand launch: Ronni Kurtz’s Instagram, 16 February 2026, announced that he, Josh Brown and Jesse Worcester were starting the roaster and shop.⁵ The Star in April added the three spouses to the owner list.³ Mail-order: Kurtz posted 13 April 2026 that “you can finally order @proviscoffee.”⁶

Randall Buchanan is the first full-time employee and lead roaster, hired from the St. Louis scene, moving to Kansas City with a 1 March 2026 start per the company’s February Instagram; The Star in April found him already buying green, roasting and cupping.⁷³

Links

• Official site: https://proviscoffee.com/
• About: https://proviscoffee.com/pages/about
• Contact: https://proviscoffee.com/policies/contact-information

Sources

Footnotes

1. “About Provis Coffee — Kansas City Roastery,” proviscoffee.com, accessed 2026-09-18. URL (Asserts: EST. 2025 · Kansas City; Magwitch/Provis name and “stories” reading; four values; Turk / crown / cherries logo copy; “Grand Opening Sept. 26”; 2914 Buchanan St.; bag and merch prices as quoted; “The Provis Founders / Kansas City.”) ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

2. “Contact information,” Provis Coffee Roasters, accessed 2026-09-18. URL (Asserts: hello@proviscoffee.com; mailing address 2914 N Buchanan St, North Kansas City, MO 64116; @proviscoffee; Mon–Fri 8:00 AM–5:00 PM CT, Sat–Sun closed.) ↩

3. Jenna Thompson, “A new coffee shop is opening soon in Kansas City’s Northland,” The Kansas City Star, updated 3 April 2026, 2:57 PM. URL (Asserts: six owners named; third-space / Northland-gap rationale; Worcester and Brown in finance, affiliated with Hawaiian Bros; Kurtz uncle of Josh Brown, four years apart; Blume NKC, 2914 Buchanan St.; summer aim; Brewers Cup ambition; Randall Buchanan hired from St. Louis; pour-overs and espresso; outlets at every chair; Dickens / Great Expectations name; Facebook listing URL in the body link.) ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

4. Sprudge Staff, “Build-Outs Of Coffee: Provis Coffee Roasters In Kansas City, MO,” Sprudge, 28 May 2026 (as told by Randall Buchanan). URL (Asserts: roastery + café; SCA-certified lab already roasting; ~6,000 sq ft two-story; cupping lab / Slayer upstairs; La Marzocco Strada, Poursteady; hoped opening August 1st 2026; 2914 N. Buchanan St., North Kansas City.) ↩

5. Ronni Kurtz on Instagram (@ronnikurtz), 16 February 2026. URL (Asserts, as indexed: Kurtz and Josh Brown had dreamed of a shop for years; Jesse as third partner; @proviscoffee brand launch.) ↩

6. Ronni Kurtz on Instagram (@ronnikurtz), 13 April 2026. URL (Asserts, as indexed: mail-order live at proviscoffee.com; bag-color key for decaf/blends, single origin, Reserve.) ↩

7. Provis Coffee Roasters on Instagram (@proviscoffee), 23 February 2026, introducing Randall Buchanan. URL (Asserts, as indexed: Buchanan a decade in specialty coffee in St. Louis; first full-time employee; moves to KC that Friday; full-time 1 March.) ↩