Peet’s Coffee to close longtime SF shop amid $18B – Business News
A more than three-decade-old outpost of California java chain Peet’s Coffee is anticipated to close because the company acquired an $18 billion takeover of the beloved model.
The shop in San Francisco’s Polk Gulch neighborhood will close completely by the tip of the month, together with more areas of the Berkeley-born model to observe, a Peet’s spokesperson advised SFGATE.
“These closures reflect a broader effort to align our business with long-term growth priorities and current market conditions,” spokesperson Stephanie O’Brien mentioned of the situation, which opened on Polk Street in 1993.
The closure is an element of the $18 billion takeover of the model by soda giant Keurig Dr. Pepper. Getty Images
“We are deeply grateful to our incredible employees and loyal customers for their continued commitment to the brand. As we move forward, we remain dedicated to the quality, craftsmanship, and heritage that have defined Peet’s for the past 60 years, while embracing new opportunities to innovate and grow.”
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The Peet’s outposts at 919 Cole St. and 2257 Market St. are additionally on the chopping block, in accordance to Hoodline.
Soda giant Keurig Dr Pepper is within the course of of buying Peet’s Coffee’s guardian company, JDE Peet’s, in an all-cash deal anticipated to close someday this 12 months, Reuters reported.
“They sold out? That’s sad,” a buyer commented on Instagram. “I’ve been patronizing them for years thinking they are a local, small company — but not anymore.”
The first Peet’s Coffee opened in Berkley in 1966. Its founder, Alfred Peet, moved to the United States from Indonesia, the place he was working as a tea tester and fell in love with the dark-roast espresso they drank. He was shocked to uncover the distinction between the espresso there and in America.
“I came to the richest country in the world, so why are they drinking the lousiest coffee?” Peet mentioned.
In 1971 Peet mentored three entrepreneurs who needed to launch their own espresso company. That company turned out to be Starbucks, and for a time Peet equipped them with beans.
Coffee lovers have endured rising costs for years, in accordance to a Toast report that tracks prices nationwide.
Los Angeles and San Francisco had some of the best median espresso costs throughout the nation — $4.99 in LA and $4.92 in SF — in accordance to an August 2025 report.
