Leon Foo, whose pre-coffee career was in private equities, has told his story before. As the founder of Papa Palheta – now PPP Coffee – he’s ridden coffee’s third wave to become one of the leading figures in Singapore’s speciality scene.
While Papa Palheta began as a lone cafe in 2009, PPP Coffee has grown into a string of cafes; the most well-known being Chye Seng Huat Hardware. It also does wholesale coffee as well as equipment and has a speciality coffee machine distributor arm called Stellar M. And Foo went from being CEO to the chairman of PPP Coffee in 2019 to focus on new horizons.
Today, the 38-year-old has a different story to tell. For the past two years, he’s been working on Morning, a coffee capsule ecosystem with business partner Andre Chanco, who was head roaster at Papa Palheta before co-founding Yardstick Coffee in Makati City, Manila.
This story is from the December 2020 edition of The PEAK Singapore.
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