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May 23, 2008 7:53 pm US/Pacific

Bay Area Man Brings Coffee To Combat Zones

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Lisa Chan
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(CBS 5) A Bay Area man is working to make sure troops overseas get their caffeine fix. He has taken several risks to set up cafes in war zones.

A Saudi Arabian princess asked Jason Araghi set up the country's first coffee shop, and that's how Green Beans Coffee was born. Now he has 70 cafes in 9 countries including Iraq and Afghanistan.

Many of his cafes are serving troops on overseas military bases. Araghi came up with the idea of taking a shipping container and converting it into a café which is litarally dropped onto a base.

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