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Jazzmans Café & Bakery (Sodexo)
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Jazzmans Café & Bakery (Sodexo)

Creating a world of calculated improvisation

There are lots of sexy places where we expect to find innovation, but a hospital coffee shop isn’t one of them. Sodexo, the global food services company, brought us on to help inject a shot of espresso into their Jazzmans brand. It was time to evolve it from a bit of a jazz cliche into a legit competitor in today’s cult-like coffee culture.

The Strategy

As we dug in, we saw that coffee shops aren’t all, or even mostly, about coffee. Today, people aren’t necessarily spending more on coffee, they’re spending more on high-quality coffee experiences. We looked at the whole Jazzmans brand experience and reimagined it—from furniture and music to artwork and lighting. The Jazzmans wordmark needed a bit of caffeine, too. In keeping with the idiosyncratic vision for the cafés, we used vintage woodcuts to create the new mark. No letter is from the same font family.

Jazzmans By Sodexo coffee packaging
Jazzmans By Sodexo coffee cups

The Success

Sodexo tests all brand concepts and naming with an iCommunity of over 200 people. The Jazzmans reimagine earned the highest rating ever scored by Sodexo. The new café designs are being rolled out nationwide.

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highest rating ever scored in the iCommunity
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state rollout across the country

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