Today’s guest is synonymous with the world’s highest quality coffee: Pedro Gavina is the CEO of F. Gavina & Sons. Celebrating its 50-year anniversary in Los Angeles, F. Gavina & Sons is the largest privately held minority-owned coffee roaster in the US. Most recently, led by its fourth generation of Gavinas, the company is immersing deeper into the specialty coffee trend by - for the first time - delivering coffee to its end-consumer directly with their first Don Francisco's Coffee Casa Cubana (coffee house), which recently opened in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles.  In this episode, we covered lots of ground, including, the joy of Pedro’s family life as a young boy back in the Cuban coffee fields, the challenges of the family’s journey amidst political unrest, overcoming challenges during the company’s early years, as well as coffee production, coffee economics and much more.