Café Abi Nasr was established in 1956 by Rafic Abi Nasr, the owner of the company. The business was and still a sole proprietorship. It started as a small shop using a 5 kilograms’ capacity roaster to roast green coffee beans, and sell it as roasted coffee beans, under “Café Abi Nasr” brand name. Nowadays, the production capacity of the company reaches 1,5t/hour, distributed between many brands of Turkish coffee, espresso coffee and filter coffee.