Makwa Coffee

Sign on door to our business with shop hours and “no fascists allowed”

New door sign.

Makwa Coffee: A safe place to gather Creating local community around coffee, books, and shared values

Former MN House Rep. Jamie Becker Finn may have stepped back from serving in elected office, but politics still have a place at her independent coffee shop Makwa Coffee in Roseville.

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Stopped at Miigwitches Brew on my way to Duluth!

Graphic of green trees with a deer standing nearby and a fairy in the branches. “Meet by the park sign on C2”

One of our awesome regulars is organizing adoption of the park by the shop! Everyone is invited to show up & help out.🌿

Invasive Clean Up at Cottontail Park
Tues 4/29 6-7pm
Bring gloves, hand weeder tools, pruners or clippers if you have them.
(This is just the initial meet up, we will have more)

Dining Out For Life Minnesota Dining Out For Life is an annual fundraising event where the community comes together to eat out at restaurants that have committed to donating a percentage

We do this every year to boost sales for Dining Out for Life. 25% of our sales will be donated to support people with HIV

SOOOO many good restaurants participating: diningoutforlifemn.org

Whole uncut round pie with dark chocolate topping in a silver pie pan

Peanut butter pie is back! Stop by any time after 12pm on Thursday 4/24 (we have to wait for the chocolate ganache to set) 🤤

Turquoise graphic with Makwa Coffee logo and END HIV in yellow font

Visit us any time on Thursday, April 24, 2025, and 25 percent of your bill will be donated to the Aliveness Project to promote health and wellness for communities most impacted by HIV/AIDS.

PLUS we will have peanut butter pie available starting after noon!

So yeah, Tax Day sucked. Speak truth and keep taking care of each other in every way you can. 🩵

Please don't misunderstand me. I’m proud to pay my fair share to support public schools, plowed roads, healthcare for those who need, etc. But it's bullshit that any of those $$ should go towards further benefiting the ultra wealthy or disappearing people to concentration camps in other countries.

Tax Day is hard for small businesses - we work SO hard and politicians talk about us all the time and yet...WE are the ones subsidizing Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. And that's not hyperbole. That is how our tax system is currently designed. Those bros paid nothing and we had to pay thousands.

My dad passed away almost seven years ago and I don't think he contemplated that my tax dollars would be subsidizing asshole oligarchs sending people to space for media attention.

Small Business Corner: Tax Day Edition

My dad always told me that if I got to the point where I needed to pay taxes, that was a good sign that I was doing well for myself and able to contribute to supporting others.

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A handmade purple & white clay mug resting on a black patio table with green plants and blue sky in the background

Patio is lovely today! ☀️

Photo of the cover of paperback copy of Fight Like Hell by Kim Kelly

Photo of sign showing hours of operation. Sign also says NO FASCISTS ALLOWED

New hours posted! Open until 6pm on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

Miigwech for testifying!

Turquoise graphic with Makwa Coffee logo and event info. Word Nerd, April 9th, 5-8pm Chill vibes for readers and writers

Word Nerd tonight! Going forward, Word Nerd will be the second Wednesday of every month. Yay!

Chill vibes for readers and writers, 5-8pm.

We truly hope you will keep visiting our shop and supporting us how you can as we weather whatever comes next. It is a very stressful time to be a small business but we are heartened by our community every single day. Thanks in advance for your patience and caring. 💙

Honesty is one of our values. We won't raise our prices until forced to. We are doing our best to stock up on our core ingredients before costs increase but there is just so much uncertainty. Some ingredients may no longer be available at all as we move forward; we just don't know.

The pending tariffs and economic instability caused by the Trump-Musk regime will very likely force us to raise prices. Wholesale costs of coffee, tea and many other items already increased at the beginning of 2025, and the Trump Tariffs will impact nearly everything even further.

Taking allllll of this into account, we set our prices as low as we possibly can without sacrificing financial stability (a LOT of small businesses do not even survive the first year).

We review what other businesses near us are charging. However, we often cannot match their prices because (1) we use better quality ingredients, (2) we source locally when we can, (3) composting is more expensive, (4) we pay decent wages, and (5) landlords raise the rent every year.

But that's not all that goes into getting a delicious vanilla latte in your hands. We also pay wages, rent, utilities, insurance, benefits, licenses - plus maintaining a clean, functional and comfortable space (furniture, decorations, equipment, repairs, etc.).

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Small Business Corner (in this economy?!?!)

The prices we charge are based on what we pay. Example: the price of a vanilla latte is determined by adding up costs of: espresso beans, water, milk, flavor syrup, cup, lid, sleeve, & label. The total cost of these items is the Cost of Goods (or COGS).
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At 1pm today, our sales were way down from our usual busy Saturday and I was like “bummer but glad y’all are at the protest”…and then everyone just showed up at 3:30 instead. Y’all are the best. 🫶

Display of five different square shaped pastries with brightly colored frosting and sprinkles

Pop tart roll call!

🍋Blueberry lemon curd
🍫Chocolate raspberry
🍐Pear ginger blueberry
🍓Triple berry
🫐Blueberry & cream

You’re probably going to want some caffeine before you head to St Paul for any afternoon activities

Graphic of a calendar with all the dates listed, also includes a cute drawing of a lil frog

Shop calendar for April!

3rd: Craft Night 5-9p
9th: Word Nerd 5-8p
13th: Artist pop-up 12-3p
20th: Artist pop-up 12-3p
24: Dining Out for Life! 25% of gross sales all day will be donated to The Aliveness Project!
27: Sunday Coffee Run with ReNew Earth Running 8am
27: Artist pop-up 12-3

Alt text: graphic is just a list of the hours with our logo on a turquoise background

To our transgender neighbors: as hateful laws and rhetoric spread across the country, we will keep showing up for you.

We love you and will keep fighting to keep you safe in Minnesota.