Quite a lot, say the owners of Carpe Diem Coffee.
Coffee is a labor of love, with the emphasis on labor.
Carpe Diem Coffee provides one of the last steps in coffee production before it hits a cup. Jane McLaughlin and Gussie von Wellsheim, in their seventh year as co-owners of Carpe Diem, are coffee roasters. Jane McLaughlin and Gussie von Wellsheim of Carpe Diem coffee roasters. Carpe Diem is special because they roast to order. It is not efficient, McLaughlin said, but it produces fresher coffee.