| Why do you drink coffee and tea? To wake up in the morning? To amp up for a long evening? Do you meet friends for a cup, or drink alone with a good book? For centuries, and in every corner of this lively rock we call earth, coffee and tea plays an intimate role in our most everyday rituals. In the hills of Vietnam in the fall of 2001, while the US watched its world turned upside down, all those things we counted on shaken out of our pockets, Jason Huber and Jocie Dye were thinking about what it means to come home. |
| Ending a 10 year stint in Denver, Colorado, and poised between one life and the next, the high school sweethearts from Philadelphia wondered what they would do when they returned to the city of brotherly love. Perhaps it was a splintering global community, perhaps it was the warm fuzzy feeling they got when they thought about the people and places that awaited them… | 
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| Whatever it was, a coffee shop where neighbors met and engaged with one another and with members of the world coffee community began to take shape in those hills. InFusion was born. |
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| The InFusion you know today is guided by the same values of local and global community that were present at its conception. You see them embodied in our products, our employees, and the very stuff our store is built from. What are these values? Here are a few you can feel good about when you frequent InFusion: |
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| InFusion buys locally. Our pastries travel, usually, less than an hour from the oven to your mouth. So that chocolate croissant really is only 10 tons of butter and enough chocolate to make you miss your sweetie a little less without the added gasoline and global warming. InFusion buys organic. Because unsprayed bananas are pretty on the inside. Because coffee tastes better without all the chemicals. Because pesticides don’t discriminate and no bees means no food. InFusion believes in a Living Wage. While much of Philly is holding it’s breath for the raise in the minimum wage, InFusion employees are going to have to look for something else to get excited about, most of us don’t even remember what the old minimum wage was. This also means we buy fair trade in hopes that one day our employment practices will be the rule and not the exception. Sustainability means NOT standing on the backs of others for your success. | 
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Awards and Recognition
Best New Stay-at-Home Dad Destination 2007, City Paper Editor's Choice Awards. In a neighborhood where Pat's and Geno's rule, it's nice to find a place where you can get a bagel and whitefish, pressed sandwiches and fun liquid fare like Vietnamese coffee. But the funniest is when you can hardly get in to InFusion Coffee & Tea Gallery due to all the beardo pops toting around hoodie-wearing kids in baby slings. As small as it is there, you can feel invisible — for better and worse — when the dads are in full-on Mr. Mom mode.
Best of the Northwest 2007, Mt. Airy Times Express, People's Choice, Best Coffee Shop
Best of Philly 2005, Philadelphia Magazine, Best Coffee Shop. This two-and-a-half-year-old Mount Airy coffee shop is the community's center, popular for both its coffee and it casual vibe. You'll find a mom playing Candy Land with her daughter on the velvet couch, while nearby, a neighbor is curled up in a wingback chair with a cup of Torreo coffee and a book. At a long central table, a quiet group of professionals perpetually hovers over laptops and lattes.
Best of the Northwest 2005, Mt. Airy Times Express, People’s Choice, Best Coffee Shop
Best of Philly 2004, Philadelphia Magazine, Best Kid-Friendly Coffee Shop. This hip Mount Airy hang-out not only tolerates children; it embraces them. The back is a play area, with kid-size tables and chairs and a healthy selection of toys and games. While moms sip their lattes and catch up on neighborhood gossip, babies nap, toddlers roam -- and noise is never an issue.
Best of the Northwest 2004, Mt. Airy Times Express, People’s Choice, Best Coffee Shop
Best of the Northwest 2003, People’s Choice, Best Pastries
