Stefanos Vouvoudakis and Tom Tsiplakos met in third grade in their Whitestone, Queens classroom. In 2011 they went into specialty coffee roasting and wholesale as For Five, sourcing, cupping, roasting, importing and distributing coffee. They built their roasting facility in Maspeth in 2016.
By 2018 they had two Manhattan stores, on West 46th Street and inside One World Trade Center. In 2026 their cafes spanned New York, the Washington DC area, Massachusetts, Illinois and Georgia, with Florida opening soon.
