FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE /PHOTO: (of interest to editors covering: Food/Beverage, Grocery, Retail, Louisiana Business) New Orleans Roast Now Available at Rouses NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 2, 2009 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- New Orleans Roast is pleased to announce that its entire line of gourmet coffees are now available for the first time in grocery stores. New Orleans Roast is proudly roasted by PJ's Coffee of New Orleans and is available exclusively at Rouses for a limited time. New Orleans Roast has been expanding its operations over the past 18 months with goals such as grocery store, office coffee and convenience store distribution. A recently forged distribution partnership with Champagne Beverage has assisted greatly with broadening the accessibility of the New Orleans Roast products. "We have wanted to have our coffee available in grocery stores for quite some time, and after carefully reworking the business model, New Orleans Roast has developed a line of quality, gourmet coffees that are both delicious and competitively priced," commented company president Scott Ballard. "Rouses, with its local and regional roots, has turned out to be the perfect partner to launch this new product." New Orleans Roast is now available at all 36 Rouses locations. Each location will carry the entire line of New Orleans Roast coffees, including: Medium Roast, Dark Roast, Coffee & Chicory, and Decaf. 16 oz. (1 lb.) bags of New Orleans Roast are currently available for only $4.99. PJ's Coffee proudly roasts coffee for hotels, restaurants, hospitals and offices under the name New Orleans Roast. For more information, visit www.neworleansroast.com. PJ's Coffee of New Orleans uses hand-selected, premium Arabica beans which are slow-roasted in small batches at its New Orleans roasting facility. PJ's Coffee was established in 1978 and began franchising in 1995. Today there are 55 PJ's locations in seven states. For more information, visit www.pjscoffee.com. All referenced product names, and other marks, are trademarks of their respective owners. Send2Press(R) is the originating wire service for this story, Copr. 2009. NEWS SOURCE: New Orleans Roast # # # // RELEASE END // MEDIA ONLY CONTACT(S): [ contact info below not for publication online or in print ] Joy Patin of Joy A Patin & Associates, Inc. for New Orleans Roast +1-504-289-4377 joy @ joypatin.com //Note to editors: * Print-ready image download (4x5, 300dpi, RGB): http://send2press.com/MediaDesk/09-0902-NOsroast_300dpi.jpg Caption/Cutline: New Orleans Roast is available in 16 oz. bags as Medium Roast, Dark Roast, Coffee & Chicory, and Decaf. ......... Plain Text Copy, and Story Permalink: http://www.Send2Press.com/mediadrome/2009-09-0902-002S.txt Release PDF: http://pdf.Send2Press.com/2009/news_2009-09-0902-002S.pdf Text provided by news source (and/or the source's authorized agency), who is solely responsible for accuracy and legality of content transmitted. Information is believed accurate but is not guaranteed. ......... This news story from Send2Press Newswire may be redistributed and re-posted in part or in whole by members of the media. Copr. (c) Send2Press, a unit of Neotrope(R). For news aggregation sites, blogs, and bureaus, you must retain Send2Press as the original wire service source. You may capture and self-host images linked to in above release, but do NOT stream from our server. ......... The original version of this release was issued on behalf of the above organization (the "news source"), by Send2Press(R) Newswire, a service of Neotrope(R). http://www.Send2Press.com/ ......... SEPTEMBER 2009 Press Release / S-ST US=(LA) / pre = / ytv = / agency = (Joy A Patin & Associates, Inc.) / prt = N / / keywords = coffee, gourmet coffee, new grocery items, New Orleans /END/