Valor Coffee has landed!
In 2016, BittyBean started as a small drive-through coffee kiosk in Bismarck with a simple goal:
“Service with a smile, and here to make your day better”
At the time, specialty coffee in North Dakota was still incredibly new. There were only a handful of shops pursuing quality-focused coffee, and honestly, we were just figuring it out as we went. What started as a growing interest in coffee slowly became something much deeper.
Over the last decade, BittyBean has evolved from a small family-run coffee stand into a team of around 25 people serving thousands of customers every month. Along the way, we expanded into housemade baked goods & lunch items (like the locally famous house salad & smoked pulled pork), with a clearer commitment to intentional hospitality and a level of operational detail we never could have imagined when we first opened.
More than anything, we’ve spent the last 10 years refining our vision and have become increasingly convinced that coffee is never just coffee. It’s hospitality, creativity, consistency, quality, community. It’s the opportunity to make someone’s day genuinely better. That belief has shaped nearly every decision we’ve made.
Over the last few years, we’ve also become more connected to the wider specialty coffee world. What once felt distant or unreachable slowly became inspiring and deeply influential. Personalities like James Hoffmann, Dritan Alsela, or Chris Deferio, and roasters like Onyx Coffee Lab, Cat & Cloud, and Valor Coffee helped expand our understanding of what service, hospitality, and intentional branding could really look like.
Last year, we began introducing coffees from Onyx and Cat & Cloud into BittyBean for the first time after years of exclusively serving our longtime local partner, Mighty Missouri Coffee Company. That season stretched us creatively and operationally in all the best ways, and was a direct result of our increased commitment to sourcing excellent coffees from around the globe.
Now, we’re excited to announce the next chapter:
Starting now, BittyBean will officially be partnering with Valor Coffee as a new addition to our wholesale partner lineup. This decision wasn’t simply about coffee quality, although we genuinely love what Valor is producing.
What stood out to us was their culture.
Their focus on hospitality, commitment to systems and training, intentional design, all wrapped up in their desire to pursue excellence while remaining approachable are all things that made Valor the next clear choice for a brand aligned with our values.
Valor’s mission, “To Uplift People Through Coffee” resonates deeply with us because it reflects so much of what we’ve been trying to build over the last decade. With this partnership comes a renewed commitment to becoming better at every level. Not for the sake of trendiness or industry approval, but because we believe everyday things like your daily coffee shop experience deserve extraordinary care.
That’s what “Expect More From the Everyday” has always meant to us, and this partnership with Valor builds on that slogan. To everyone who has supported us over the last (almost) 10 years: thank you for growing with us!
The next chapter is just getting started. (Stay tuned for more exciting updates as we approach our 10 year birthday in November)
— Durant, Daryle, and the BittyBean Team
Find more about Valor online @valor.coffee