Roasting Plant franchisee suing for $9.5 million, citing fraudulent profit forecast

February 2nd, 20180 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Mike Shehadi, owner of two local Roasting Plant coffee shops, is suing Roasting Plant founder and CEO Mike Caswell, Thomas Hartocollis, the company's chief sales and marketing officer, and the New York-based parent company itself for fraud. Shehadi claims that the amount of profits he was promised were...

Roasting Plant coffee shop offers high-end java for a low-end price

November 3rd, 20170 DEARBORN HEIGHTS—“It picks up something from the ocean around it, from the humidity, from the surrounding trees,” said Mohamad Zeitoun, manager of the Roasting Plant coffee shops in Dearborn Heights and Ann Arbor, about the flavor profile of the Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee bean. The Dearborn Heights location opened in June;...