Always Five O'clock Brands
Born in Detroit in 1911, we've been roasting coffee and serving hospitality businesses for over a century. Today, we deliver exceptional coffee, tea, and wine solutions to hotels, restaurants, cafes, and more — all with the same passion that started it all.
Espresso Equipment for Restaurants, Cafés & Hotels
We supply commercial espresso machines from Cimbali, Schaerer, Faema & Casadio—installed, serviced, and supported by us. Trusted and used by the world's top hospitality teams.

Your Grandfather's Grandfather Trusted Us
Our company's roots date back to 1911, in the city of Detroit at the corners of Gratiot and McDougall. We started as the original Standard Coffee Company and have evolved over time to offer a wide range of products and services.
Why Us?
- Legacy & Trust – A fourth-generation family business with over 100 years of roasting experience.
- Top-Shelf Products – Featuring Crazy Fresh Coffee, Mighty Leaf Tea, LavAzza, and Segafredo.
- Tailored Service – Solutions customized for your business, including equipment and support.
- Wine by Day and Night – Beverage programs that go from day to night — coffee to wine.
Our Products
We offer a wide selection of wines from across the globe; Mighty Leaf, Harney and Sons, and Steep from Bigelow teas; LavAzza and Segafredo branded Italian international coffee brands and our Crazy Fresh Coffee brand; commercial espresso and drip-coffee equipment.
We Cater to All Kinds of Hospitality Businesses!
- Hotels
- Restaurants
- Wine Bars
- Coffee Bars & Cafes
- Country Clubs
- Bakeries
- Banquet & Catering Services
- Casinos
- Cigar Bars
- And more!
Interested in small-batch, locally roasted coffee from Michigan?
From a family-owned and operated coffee company whose roots date back to Detroit in 1911, meet Crazy Fresh Coffee®.
Drop us a line, we'd love to hear from you!
You can reach us by phone: 248-549-0054
or email: crazyfresh@fiveoclockbrands.com
By Mail:
Five O'clock Brands
4210 Edgeland Avenue Royal Oak, MI 48073
Our Story
Throughout our service territory, (east side of the state of MI) we support every UL/NSF-approved commercial-grade espresso brand.
Whether or not you purchased it from us, we can service it.
Who We Are
Roasting Since 1911. Reinventing Fresh Daily.
We've been in the coffee business for over a century, but we've never stopped evolving. Founded in 1911, we're a fourth-generation, family-owned company that understands the value of craftsmanship, consistency, and building relationships. From our very first roast, we've been committed to delivering the freshest, highest-quality coffee with a personal touch that you won't find with larger, corporate suppliers.
At the heart of our operation are real people—experts in their craft—handling every stage of production. We don't rely on automation or generic blends. Every coffee is roasted with care, packaged fresh, and shipped quickly. It's this hands-on approach that's allowed us to stay relevant for over 100 years, and it's why we still deliver exceptional service to our partners every day.
We're not just a supplier—we're your partner. And that means we answer the phone when you call, and we're here to solve problems quickly, every time. There's no red tape, no runaround, just people you can trust who get the job done. When you need something, we get it handled. Simple as that.
We operate under our flagship brands Crazy Fresh Coffee and King Coffee, providing coffee solutions to restaurants, offices, hotels, and cafes across the country. From boutique operations to large national chains, we understand the need for consistency, quality, and service that's always a step ahead.
Beyond coffee, we've expanded our offerings to include Harney & Sons teas, super-premium iced tea, and a curated wine program, designed for those who want the same level of excellence in every drink they serve.
We believe that being in business for over 100 years means something. We've been here through the highs and lows of the market, through shifts in consumer behavior, and through every trend that's come and gone. Our promise to you is simple: we'll deliver the same level of excellence, craftsmanship, and care tomorrow that we have since 1911. When you partner with us, you're working with a company that is grounded in legacy, driven by quality, and built to last.
We're not just a coffee supplier. We're your partner. We're a company of real people who care about what we do and how we do it. And we're here to support you every step of the way.

Your Grandfather's Grandfather Trusted Us
Our company's roots date back to 1911, in the city of Detroit at the corners of Gratiot and McDougall. We started as the original Standard Coffee Company and have evolved over time to offer a wide range of products and services.
Home Brewing | Crazy Fresh Coffee
You're about to level up your daily coffee habits with the craft, small-batch goodness that is Crazy Fresh.
Our Family Tree

Peter A. Spear - Ernest P. Spear
1st Generation - 2nd Generation
James P. Mihalis
Vice President of Sales
4th generation family member

James Ernest Spear
President-CEO fourth generation owner
We Love Coffee and We Really Love Ours!
Since 1911, we have been dedicated to living, eating, sleeping, breathing and preaching the heart and soul of the coffee culture. We have nurtured, developed and still enjoy thousands of culinary and food and beverage relationships throughout our state, country and continent. Providing coffee lovers with the very best coffees the world has to offer is a quest which requires a long and difficult journey to find new countries of origin and families within those countries that grow great coffee.
Most of our relationships are with third, fourth, and fifth generation families that grow coffee. Their names are on the door and their pride is only surpassed in their dedication to what they do. Their labor of love in turn gets married to ours. You, dear friend, benefit by getting the freshest coffees from the parts of the world that have been growing these coffees for hundreds of years. We promise that after you try any of our King or Crazy Fresh blends, you'll never be satisfied with any other brand, and you say ahhhhhhhhhh after every sip. We invite you to try any of our brands, satisfaction guaranteed!
Our Coffees
Click here Crazy Fresh Coffee if you want some for home or office or church.
We also import and distribute LavAzza and Segafredo — branded Italian international brands.
- Crazy Fresh Coffee
- King Coffee
- LavAzza Premium Coffee
- Segafredo Zanetti Cold Brew — ready to drink, no equipment is needed
Our Teas
Tea beverages are properly produced by pouring boiling hot water over cured tea leaves picked from tea plants, then allowed to steep to further extract the proper strength from the leaves.
Tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world, and its most popular categories are black, green, and herbal.
We offer Mighty Leaf Tea, Harney and Sons, and Steep from Bigelow teas.
Our Wine Book
Although we operate from dawn 'til dusk and beyond, when the sun does set, we have gone to great lengths to discover a selection of fantastic wines, and bring them to our customers at an unparalleled value. Our Five PM portfolio is continually expanding, representing some of the finest wine producers in the world. We aim to inspire and support the food service industry, one customer-partner, one cup, one glass, and one venue at a time.
Our Producers
Italy
NVerona · Importer
Nicola Biscardo Selections
Family-owned estates across Italy, self-imported from Verona since 1987. Independent vintners who pooled their forces — not an intermediary, a bridge from the vineyard. Semplicità, Sostenibilità, Sapere.
CAlto Adige
Castelfeder
Mont Mes Pinot Grigio, Cuvée Bianco, Cuvée Rosso and Pinot Nero.
NAbruzzo
Nevio
Montepulciano d'Abruzzo DOC. Estate grown and bottled between Vasto and Crecchio, old vines of at least 30 years. Winemaker Donato Ramunno.
APiemonte
Alessandro Rivetto
Barolo di Serralunga, Barbaresco, Nebbiolo, Dolcetto and Langhe Rosso. Azienda Agricola Alessandro Rivetto — a love story with wine begun by his grandfather Ercole.
FPiemonte
Franco Conterno
Barolo DOCG Pietrin. 91 points, Wine Enthusiast.
CPiemonte
Carlin de Paolo
Casalcomignoli Moscato d'Asti and Casalcomignoli Barbera d'Asti. Four generations at Gorzano, San Damiano d'Asti — 50 hectares on the Colline Alfieri where Monferrato, Roero and the Langhe meet. Founded 1946 and named for Paolo and his son Carlo.
FPiemonte
Fontanassa
Gavi DOCG “Cà Adua” and Gavi del Comune di Gavi. A 16th-century fortified farmhouse at Rovereto di Gavi, Gemme family since 1921.
MSicilia
Marino Abate
Organic Nero d'Avola “Lapa” and Grillo “Ariddu”. Vincenzo, Rossella and Nicola farm 16 hectares across five micro-terroirs between Marsala and Mazara — about 15,000 bottles a year.
LToscana
La Bollina
Erastos and Eklektós — Baby and Super Tuscan Cabernet, made at Corte Medicea. 98 and 99 points, Luca Maroni. The estate itself runs to 120 hectares of vineyard and chestnut wood at Serravalle Scrivia, once home to the Figari family of Genoa.
PToscana
Poggio del Moro
Toscana Rosso. 94 points, James Suckling. Tatiana, owner and winemaker — made by hand and refined with heart.
FToscana
Fattoria Montepescini
Chianti Colli Senesi and Riserva, Donna Maria Rosso, Vermentino and Alice Rosato. The Governi family at Murlo — grandfather arrived in 1950 as a sharecropper, bought the land in 1956 and planted around the ruins of Castelvecchio. Organic, inside the Basso Merse Nature Reserve between the Merse and the Ombrone.
BVeneto
Bottega
Liquid Metals Venetian Gold Prosecco and Platinum Moscato, Rose Brut, Petalo Amore, Il Vino dei Poeti, Oro and Lemon Spritz. Three generations at Villa Rosina, Bibano di Godega, in an 18th-century farmhouse ringed by organic Prosecco DOC vineyards.
CVeneto
Ca’ Vendri
Amarone della Valpolicella, Ripasso and Passione Assoluta. 93 points.
ZVeneto
Zýmë
Harlequin Rosso, Kairos, Oseleta, Amarone Classico and Riserva “La Mattonara”, Amandorlato, From Black to White, Valpolicella Reverie and Classico Superiore, Tranaltri Passito, Veneto Rosso Syrah, 60/20/20 Cabernet. Extremely limited — ask your rep. Celestino Gaspari’s cellar is built inside a 15th-century sandstone quarry at San Pietro in Cariano.
BFriuli-Venezia Giulia
Bastianich
Calabrone Rosso and Vespa Bianco. The Bastianich family planted at Cividale del Friuli in 1997; vineyards on the ponca marl of the Colli Orientali.
CFriuli-Venezia Giulia
Castellargo
Sassi Pinot Grigio. Founded 1978 at Treppo Grande by Argo Atal Castellarin; 250 hectares across Collio, Colli Orientali and Friuli Grave.
MVeneto
Millenio
Prosecco DOC from Treviso, in 750ml and 187ml.
France
CBordeaux
Château Peynaud-Bagnac
Bordeaux red blend. Black cherry and mulberry with chocolate, toffee and walnut; creamy tannins, plush and supple. 91 points, James Suckling.
JLanguedoc-Roussillon
Jean-Claude Mas
Côté Mas from the Languedoc. Jean-Claude Mas built Domaines Paul Mas from his father’s 35 hectares into seventeen estates across Languedoc and Roussillon — 21 appellations, 45 grape varieties, half the production white. He calls it rural luxury.
BLanguedoc-Roussillon
Badet Clément (Fleuraison)
Fleuraison Blanc de Blancs and Brut Rosé. Catherine Delaunay, who also makes Les Jamelles and Oraison. Grape Juice Group.
Germany
CPfalz
Chiara
Pinot Noir from the Pfalz — a region known for Riesling, now a hidden gem for Pinot. 93 Luca Maroni. Grape Juice Group.
TNahe
Weingut Tesch
Riesling Unplugged — bone dry, no additives, named after the MTV sessions as a protest against over-teched, sweetened Riesling. Johannes and Martin Tesch, tenth and eleventh generation at Langenlonsheim since 1723. 92 points, Suckling.
Portugal
PDão
Pedra Cancela
Dão reds and whites from native varieties. The Gouveia family's vineyard on the slopes above the Dão — 75 hectares between Viseu, Nelas and Mangualde, 19 of them over 50 years old. João Paulo Gouveia finished his enology degree in 1999 and the family stopped delivering fruit to the co-op to bottle under their own name. Winemaker Sónia Martins.
BSetúbal
Bacalhôa Aliança
Vinho Verde with citrus and light effervescence. Bacalhôa Vinhos de Portugal — 935 hectares across seven Portuguese wine regions and 33 grape varieties, based at Azeitão.
Spain
BAragón
Bodegas Care
Garnacha Nativa, Nativa Bianca, Solidarity Rosé, Blanco and Tinto Sobre Lías. Winemaker Nacho Lázaro, four estates in Cariñena. Labels by the artist Enrique Torrijos.
PRibera del Duero
Portia
Ribera del Duero from Familia Martínez Zabala. The Foster & Partners winery at Gumiel de Izán — a three-pointed star built into the hillside so gravity moves the fruit. 160 hectares in the Golden Triangle at 850 metres.
New Zealand
BMarlborough
The Better Half
Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir. George Elworthy — winemaker, part-time pilot and Jules Taylor’s husband, who named the label after their friendly rivalry. 90 points, Best Buy.
JMarlborough
Jules Taylor
Sauvignon Blanc. 95 points, Sam Kim. Born in Marlborough the year the first vines went in; founded her own label in 2001 with 200 cases. NZ Winemaker of the Year 2021.
United States
SCalifornia
Silver Creek
Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Best of Class at the Los Angeles International and gold at both the Orange County competition and the California State Fair. Five generations of Cribaris, first planted 1902.
MLodi
Mettler Family Vineyards
Petite Sirah, Epicenter Zinfandel, Cabernet and Copacetic. Farming Lodi since 1899, six generations, estate grown and sustainably farmed.
FCarneros
Fleur de California
Carneros Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Vermentino. Francis and Kathy Mahoney planted here in 1972, before anyone called Carneros a fine wine region, and ran a twelve-year Pinot clonal study with UC Davis. Certified sustainable and fish-friendly.
PNapa Valley
Navigator Wine Collection
Navigator, The Introvert and Technique. Founded in Napa as Precision Wine Company and renamed in 2025; Chiles Valley and North Coast fruit.
NNapa Valley
Navigator
Cabernet Sauvignon 93 points, plus Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot, Chardonnay, Rosé and Sparkling Brut.
BNapa Valley
Bougetz Cellars
Two lines: the Bougetz estate Cabernets — Amaryllis, Eminence, Ardante, Prominence, Jetrois — and Parched, a Napa Valley Bordeaux blend. Founded by Tom and Joan Bougetz, leasing blocks on Spring Mountain, Mount Veeder, Coombsville and Rutherford.
PRussian River
Pellegrini
Russian River Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from Olivet Lane — 60 acres planted in 1975 to heirloom Martini Pinot and Wente Chardonnay, named for the olive trees along the entrance. Four generations. Top 15 under $50, Bloomberg.
BSonoma
Bacchus
Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir “Ginger’s Cuvée”. Created by David Gordon, the sommelier behind the Grand Award wine list at Tribeca Grill — Drew Nieporent and Robert De Niro’s restaurant. Certified sustainable.
CWillamette Valley
Cherry Hill
100% Pommard clone Pinot Noir. Boutique producer in the Eola-Amity Hills, Willamette Valley. 92 points.
OWillamette Valley
Oregon Grove
Willamette Valley Pinot Noir — raspberry and plum, baking spice, cherry and blueberry, with a distinct minerality. Cherry Hill’s second label.
Request Our Portfolio
The complete Five O’Clock Brands wine book — producers, vintages, scores and tech sheets. Sent straight to your inbox.
Relied on by cafés, restaurants, and hotel groups in more than thirty states, supported by our Michigan headquarters and a nationwide service network.
Official partners for Cimbali, Faema, Schaerer, Casadio, Mazzer, and more.
Which machine is right for my café, hotel, or office?
A busy café might choose a push-button Cimbali S30 for speed and consistency, while a boutique hotel bar prefers a Faema E71 for full barista control. Tell us your daily drink count and staff skill level—we'll match the ideal machine, arrange lease-to-own financing, apply trade-in credit on most UL-NSF models, and provide Michigan-based install and service.
Buy Commercial Espresso Machines Built for Performance
Elevate your espresso game with the industry's top brands—installed, serviced, and supported by your Michigan-based experts.

Super-Automatic Machines
Push-button precision and speed. Ideal for hotels, offices, or high-volume operations where consistency and ease of use are essential.
Apply for Financing
Traditional Machines
Barista-operated machines built for performance and control. Perfect for cafés, restaurants, and specialty coffee environments.
Apply for Financing
Certified Pre-Owned & Trade-In
Have an older machine? We accept trade-ins on most UL/NSF-approved commercial espresso equipment—even if you didn't buy it from us.
Certified Pre-Owned & Trade-In SavingsService & Maintenance
We repair and maintain every major commercial espresso brand—whether or not you bought it from us. Factory-trained technicians handle bench repairs, on-site emergencies, preventive-maintenance plans, water-filtration installs, and same-day dispatch across Michigan and neighboring states.
Why Choose Us
- Trade-in Program – Credit toward better equipment on most UL/NSF certified machines.
- Michigan-Based Service & Support – Local technicians, not a national call center.
- Nationwide Shipping & Installation – Michigan headquarters, national reach.
- Staff Training Programs – Included with equipment.
- Flexible Financing and Leasing Options – Lease-to-own on equipment, plus PayPal terms on smaller purchases. Apply online.
- Crazy Fresh Coffee Program Integration – Equipment and coffee from one supplier.
Ready to upgrade your espresso program?
Fully Automatic Machines
Traditional Machines
Try Crazy Fresh Espresso!
If you are looking for an authentic barista coffee experience at home or your business, our Pazzo Fresco (Crazy Fresh in Italian) Espresso blend is modeled after the most successful Italian blends in history.
Our espresso is a Blended Roast, with several shades in one (which are very visible), and the aromas and flavors are a Blend of semi-sweet and Dark, Chocolate, toasted hazelnuts, balanced, natural brown sugar topped with an extra thick hazelnut colored crema…this the hallmark for a well-made espresso!
Drip-Style Coffee Machine Brands We Represent:
- BUNN — Commercial Equipment, Service & Digital Solutions
- FETCO®
- Wilbur Curtis
- Service Ideas, Inc. — Beverage and Foodservice Equipment Supplier
Brewers qualify for lease-to-own financing. Apply for Financing
Contact Us
Drop us a line, we'd love to hear from you!
If you are interested in becoming a customer, please contact us so that we can arrange a meeting with a Five O'clock Brands sales representative.
You can reach us by phone: (248) 549-0054 or by filling out the form below.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Inquiry Received
Press
Corner Coffee Store
10 Best Honduran Coffees — Crazy Fresh Honduran Santa Rosa SHG ranked
Read the articleDBusiness Magazine
MGM Grand Detroit Replaces Starbucks with Local Coffee, Baked Goods Café
Read the article
Work With Us
We'd love to have you join our team! Please use the form below to apply. Feel free to send in your resume even if you don't see the position you're looking for listed.

























