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The Ultimate Assist

Bill Purton knows coffee.

A leader of the second wave movement in Melbourne back in the 90s, Bill was a co-founder of Fitzroy’s Atomica Café, a café and roastery that was influential in Melbourne’s move away from large, industrial scale, second crack roasting towards the more subtle styles and single origins that have helped define Melbourne as one of the world’s pre-eminent coffee cities.

A tinkerer by nature, Bill has always worked on ways to improve what we serve and how we serve it. So when he got stuck in a take away coffee queue for 25

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