Our People

Mighty Good Coffee is about more than just the great fresh roasted coffee. It’s also about our great staff that brews your cup at the cafe or delivers it to your home or business. Want to join us, drop us a line of drop off a resume.

Michael Burbo, Operations Manager: Michael is our jack of all trades and despite the old saying, he’s actually pretty good at most of them. Desperate for a job in coffee after spending the last four years raising his daughter, Michael wandered in, offered his organizational expertise and has been with us every weekday morning since. When not driving around SE Michigan in our little red truck, Michael works in his Downriver recording studio, hoping to hit it big with music sale for a movie or TV commercial that airs during the half time of the Super Bowl.

Hannah Wood, Assistant Manager / Barista: Drink creationist extraordinaire, Hannah is behind our recent line of Signature Lattes. She just can’t help it. Try one TODAY! She also just took a trip to Costa Rica to visit the famed La Minita Estate where she not only learned a lot about coffee, she won the hour long picking contest earning 600 colones along the way.

Katherine Arrowsmith: Despite just graduating from University of Michigan with a degree in International Studies, the lure of life as a barista was just too much to pass up. Knowing that tasting great coffees from around the world is the next best thing to visiting all these great countries, Katherine applied to work at MGC. She’s quickly learning the international language of coffee which includes words and phrases like Finca, Hacienda, Aceh Province, Direct Trade and so on. Although she appears quiet and unassuming, her mind is surely racing to figure out how to score a trip to origin (coffee speak for visiting a coffee growing region).

Laura Adams: Full-time student who manages to work in coffee 25+ hours a week in addition to working at the A2 YMCA, I think we all wish we had the energy of 19 year old. A local Ann Arborite, Laura has been working in coffee for the past year and came to us looking to learn and do more than sling cups of black liquid with no known provenance roasted who knows how long ago. So here she is, giving all that energy back to our customers.

Corbin (TinTin) Recke: Resident comic with no previous coffee experience, Corbin has jumped in with both feet running. Fred Flinstone-esque? Not. Corbin is as committed to serving great coffee as he is to telling off color jokes, hopefully not to our customers. But if you’re in the mood for a laugh with your morning Joe, Corbin is your go to guy.

Rob Martens: Rob is our renaissance man. A true artisan’s passion for learning, exploring and perfecting coffee, not to mention retirement, is what drew Rob to Mighty Good. He’s also well versed in studio music recording, bee keeping, maple syrup making, spiritual meditation, snowboarding, skiing, right defense on the ice rink and probably more that we haven’t even learned yet. Rob’s excitement for coffee is infectious, even to those of us who’ve been here for a while. And man is that great!

David Myers, Roaster/Owner: From art school to coffee roasting, David has described the art of roasting coffee in terms that Ansel Adams or Edward Weston would appreciate. Time, temperature, acute senses, passion and precision. Along with the careful selection of the beans, the roasted coffee is transformed into espresso drinks, fine single origins, complex blends that fill your senses with the stimulating pleasure of the best coffee he can make. David is deeply committed to the local movement and serves on the board of Think Local First, a Washtenaw County advocacy group.

We’re Always Looking! Every week or so, pallets of coffee from all over the world come in our back door. We spend a lot of time  perfecting each one, sampling roasts as a staff in preparation for bringing them to our customers. Each will be cupped and brewed using a variety of methods. Each staff member will have a chance to be a part of the process from green to cup. Notes from everyone on our staff will be compiled so our customers have a broad sense of what we think and what we value. This process is repeated frequently. We are what we roast, we ride our own coat tails and stand behind what we do and how we do it. Want to be a part of it? Have the buds and ability to verbally express what you can taste?

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