Illimité Coffee Roasters is a Slovakian speciality coffee roastery founded in 2014 by Lukáš Kubiny. The quality of its product and the design of this small roasters puts it at the tip of the Slovak speciality coffee scene. Coffee from Illimité Coffee Roasters even decorates the world wall of Facebook’s Belgian offices and represents the Slovak Republic with its minimalist designs. Read more about their story from Lukáš himself.
Coffee and me?
“It happened unexpectedly, even though I’ve always had an affiliation for coffee. I was studying medical school and was on my way to become a pharmacy technician, which involved hours and hours of analytical chemistry, pharmacognosy and phototherapy. And because at its core, coffee roasting is just another chemical reaction, I started experimenting. My enthusiasm was transformed into a business in 2014. The first year was very uncertain because I very quickly realised that simply liking coffee isn’t enough to start a business :-) It was probably the hardest year because I started without any capital, my time was limited as I was working full-time and I was a complete newbie in the business world.
In 2015, I started to receive larger orders and also more feedback, which was not always positive, but I was all the more motivated to get better. My biggest fan and supporter has always been my wife Zojka, who always stood by me and helped me in every way, even until today. As were my brother and parents, of course, who had to drink and evaluate litres of coffee (sometimes I feel like they drank it even instead of water :-)). Every spare € went into the company in one way or another- coffee, packaging, technology, literature… and all these little details started to form the whole picture.
2016 was the breaking point, where I finally started to see the direction I wanted to go in. The human body is a truly spectacular thing. When you make it do more than it can handle, it’ll make you pay. And so there it was my first burnout and two surgeries. It was the “breaking point” for me when I had to decide between my company and my day-job. Of course, I opted for my business and coffee. Definitely not the easy option, but in the long run and in my opinion, the right choice.” Luk