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About Quay Coffee

QUAY ( pronounced ˈkē ) We are a locally owned shop that focuses on serving a delicious cup of coffee with excellent customer service. This comes from a staff that wants you to have the best experience possible. Our goal is to create an environment that is comfortable for all guests. Our name pays homage to the former name of the River Market, called River Quay, pronounced “key”. It was an energetic and thriving area during the time full of musicians, artisans and the like. It was also during this time that trouble broke out. A few buildings were blown up as some Kansas City rivalries began. The city stepped away from revitalizing the area until it calmed down. A few years later the city came back in and renamed this area the River Market. OUR COFFEE The Quay Coffee promise is to deliver amazing coffee and customer service to you every single time you walk through the door. Our menu is simple, and it is simple for one reason: our coffee is good. The quality of our coffee is due to our guest roaster program. We taste coffees from all of the United States and Canada and only order the best. All of our roasters work with direct trade coffee. They do this to make sure that the growers are getting paid fair wages, even above market cost. Nurturing personal relationships with many of their growers. With a large service bar and multiple tables of varying sizing at both locations, you will find that there is plenty of space to study, read, work, meet and socialize. Our goal is to be an extension of your living-room that happens to serve great coffee. OUR CITY We love to be part of the DNA found only in Kansas City. Whether this is your home too or you are visiting Kansas City for the first time we hope you will explore this city with a great cup of Quay Coffee in your hand. Falling more in love with the amazing sights, food and entertainment that makes Kansas City the place that we are proud to call home.

Quay Coffee opened on June 22 2012 by Cory Stipp and a partner at 412 Delaware St. They went on to run two coffee shops, all located in Kansas City.

They were acquired by another small coffee chain, Thou Mayest Coffee Roasters in April 2019 who now operate the shops successfully.

But the QuayCoffee.com website lives on to provide great content about coffee and coffee shops.

Their website is now thoumayest.com and they can be found at the following locations:

Thou Mayest – River Quay

412 Delaware St B
Kansas City
MO 64105

Tel: (816) 897 0505

Sunday 7 AM–9 PM
Monday 7 AM–4 PM
Tuesday 7 AM–9 PM
Wednesday 7 AM–9 PM
Thursday 7 AM–9 PM
Friday 7 AM–11 PM
Saturday 7 AM–11 PM

Thou Mayest – Nelson-Atkins

4525 Oak St
Kansas City
MO 64111

Tel: (816) 897 0505

Sunday: 10 AM–5 PM
Monday: 10 AM–5 PM
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: 10 AM–5 PM
Friday: 10 AM–5 PM
Saturday: 10 AM–5 PM

Café Equinox

8424 Farley St
Overland Park
KS 66212

Tel: (816) 897 0505

Sunday: 10:30 AM–4 PM
Monday: 9 AM–4 PM
Tuesday: 9 AM–4 PM
Wednesday: 9 AM–4 PM
Thursday: 9 AM–4 PM
Friday: 9 AM–4 PM
Saturday: 9 AM–4 PM

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