{
  "$comment": "Café In — canonical supplier profile. SINGLE SOURCE OF TRUTH. Every page, feed and portal profile derives from this file. Fields marked \"VERIFY\" are Philipp's to confirm before publication.",
  "version": "0.2-draft",
  "generated": "2026-09-22",
  "company": {
    "legal_name": "9213-6282 Québec Inc.",
    "trade_name": "Café In",
    "type": "B2B coffee, beverage and foodservice supplier",
    "model": "Distributor and private-label programme operator. Does NOT roast — sources from partner roasters and packs under the Café In label or the client's own.",
    "founded": "VERIFY",
    "languages": [
      "fr-CA",
      "en-CA"
    ],
    "base": "Greater Montréal, Québec",
    "website": "https://breuvagescafein.com",
    "email": "info@breuvagescafein.com",
    "phone": "+1 450-550-5203",
    "address": "5286 rue Jonergin, Longueuil, QC J3Y 2S2",
    "legal_name_note": "RESOLVED 22 Sept 2026 by three corroborating documents, all naming 9213-6282 Québec Inc. at 105 rue Chestnut, Baie-D'Urfé: the CFIA Safe Food for Canadians licence, the Beneva insurance policy, and the Registraire des entreprises head-office address. Reading: 9213-6282 Québec Inc. is the company; \"LES BREUVAGES CAFÉ 'IN'\" is its registered operating name (name in force since 2025-05-15); Café In is the brand. On a tender write: 9213-6282 Québec Inc., faisant affaire sous LES BREUVAGES CAFÉ \"IN\", NEQ 1178837168. Still worth one Consulter click in the REQ to confirm the company and the name sit on the same NEQ.",
    "neq": "1178837168",
    "neq_note": "Status Immatriculée, name En vigueur from 2025-05-15. A prior registration, NEQ 1166096587, was radiée d'office on 2023-07-11 — do not use it.",
    "registered_address": "105 rue Chestnut, Baie-D'Urfé, QC H9X 2M1 — the REGISTERED head office. Use on tenders and legal documents.",
    "address_note": "Published place of business. Philipp, 22 Sept: most of the business is around Longueuil, so this is the address the site shows. Matches the verified Google Business Profile exactly.",
    "website_note": "DECIDED. The .ca zone hosts app.breuvagescafein.ca — the CRM — and must never be opened. See [C] Cafe In Business Knowledge.md §24 and web/DNS-RUNBOOK.md.",
    "email_note": "Philipp, 22 Sept: use the existing info@ address for tender and quote enquiries. No new mailbox needed. If a second person ever handles quotes, or the volume justifies filtering, add rfq@ as an alias onto the same inbox then.",
    "existing_site": "breuvagescafein.com — currently returns 403 over plain HTTP and has for ~2 years; Google de-indexed it. Replacing it is the point.",
    "operating_name": "LES BREUVAGES CAFÉ \"IN\""
  },
  "scale_published": {
    "$comment": "Only figures safe to publish. Revenue, margin and client names deliberately EXCLUDED.",
    "delivery_points": 171,
    "municipalities_served": 82,
    "active_skus": 343,
    "territory_statement": "Québec-wide, from Montréal to Abitibi-Témiscamingue and the Saguenay"
  },
  "territory": {
    "core": [
      "Montréal",
      "Laval",
      "Montérégie",
      "Laurentides",
      "Lanaudière"
    ],
    "regular": [
      "Estrie",
      "Centre-du-Québec",
      "Mauricie",
      "Capitale-Nationale",
      "Chaudière-Appalaches"
    ],
    "served_via_pallet_freight": [
      "Abitibi-Témiscamingue",
      "Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean"
    ],
    "evidence": "Active delivery points in 82 Québec municipalities, including Rouyn-Noranda and Val-d'Or.",
    "note": "Pallet-scale drops make long runs economic. Small-case orders outside the core region are not."
  },
  "customer_types": [
    {
      "id": "ocs",
      "label_en": "Office coffee service & vending operators",
      "label_fr": "Opérateurs de pause-café et de distributrices",
      "note": "Best-fitting segment. Multi-category, pallet-scale, repeat."
    },
    {
      "id": "distribution",
      "label_en": "Foodservice distributors & wholesalers",
      "label_fr": "Distributeurs et grossistes alimentaires"
    },
    {
      "id": "seniors",
      "label_en": "Seniors residences, CHSLDs and retirement housing",
      "label_fr": "Résidences pour aînés, CHSLD et habitations"
    },
    {
      "id": "hospitality",
      "label_en": "Restaurants, hotels and hospitality",
      "label_fr": "Restauration et hôtellerie"
    },
    {
      "id": "institutional",
      "label_en": "Institutions, municipalities and public bodies",
      "label_fr": "Institutions, municipalités et organismes publics",
      "note": "Reached through SEAO public tender."
    },
    {
      "id": "workplace",
      "label_en": "Offices, plants and workplaces",
      "label_fr": "Bureaux, usines et milieux de travail"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    {
      "id": "coffee-filter",
      "en": "Filter packs & fractional coffee",
      "fr": "Sachets-filtres et café fractionné",
      "detail_en": "Portioned filter packs from 1.5 oz to 8 oz for institutional brewers and urns.",
      "skus": 22
    },
    {
      "id": "coffee-bulk",
      "en": "Whole bean & ground coffee",
      "fr": "Café en grains et moulu",
      "detail_en": "Bulk formats, typically 2 lb and 5 lb.",
      "skus": 5
    },
    {
      "id": "coffee-single",
      "en": "Single-serve pods & K-Cup",
      "fr": "Dosettes et capsules K-Cup",
      "detail_en": "Single-serve across the major national brands.",
      "skus": 11
    },
    {
      "id": "powders",
      "en": "Hot chocolate & specialty powders",
      "fr": "Chocolat chaud et poudres spécialisées",
      "detail_en": "Hot chocolate, cappuccino and specialty beverage powders.",
      "skus": 19
    },
    {
      "id": "disposables",
      "en": "Cups, lids & accessories",
      "fr": "Verres, couvercles et accessoires",
      "detail_en": "Paper cups in 4, 8, 10, 12, 16 and 20 oz plus insulated ripple cups, dome lids, sleeves and trays. Café In imports these directly and offers private label.",
      "skus": 24
    },
    {
      "id": "tea",
      "en": "Tea & herbal",
      "fr": "Thés et tisanes",
      "skus": 7,
      "detail_en": "Black, green and herbal, in institutional formats."
    },
    {
      "id": "condiments",
      "en": "Dairy, sugar & condiments",
      "fr": "Lait, sucre et condiments",
      "skus": 7,
      "detail_en": "Whitener, sugar, sweetener and stir sticks to complete a break-room order."
    },
    {
      "id": "supplies",
      "en": "Filters & service supplies",
      "fr": "Filtres et fournitures d'entretien",
      "skus": 9,
      "detail_en": "Brewer filters, cleaning products and consumables for serviced equipment."
    }
  ],
  "private_label": {
    "offered": true,
    "headline_en": "We build house coffee lines for distributors and operators under their brand or ours.",
    "headline_fr": "Nous développons des gammes de café maison pour distributeurs et opérateurs, sous leur marque ou la nôtre.",
    "formats": [
      "Filter packs, 1.5 oz to 8 oz",
      "1.75 oz filter pack",
      "2 lb bulk",
      "custom on request"
    ],
    "typical_minimum": "NOT PUBLISHED — deliberate. Philipp, 21 Sept: \"private label possible without details, needs a conversation.\"",
    "lead_time": "NOT PUBLISHED — same decision.",
    "evidence_en": "Café In already produces named house lines for national and regional distribution partners.",
    "$comment": "This is the genuine differentiator and the strongest opening with a new distributor. Publish it. Do NOT name the partners without written permission.",
    "published_stance": "State that it is real and already running, state the formats and the division of responsibility, and invite the volume conversation. Never publish a minimum run or a lead time.",
    "rationale": "A published minimum tells competitors the floor and disqualifies prospects who would have been flexible on a call. But \"private label possible\" alone reads as a marketing claim — so the page carries evidence and process instead of a number."
  },
  "equipment_and_service": {
    "$comment": "Answered by Philipp 22 Sept 2026. The response time is a real commitment — do not inflate it.",
    "brewers_supplied": "Commercial brewers, mostly Bunn and Curtis.",
    "placement_models": [
      "bundled into a supply agreement (preferred)",
      "loan with a supply agreement",
      "outright purchase (available, but not how Café In prefers to work)"
    ],
    "installation": "Yes — Café In places and installs the equipment it supplies.",
    "preventive_maintenance": "Yes — in-house.",
    "repair_sla_hours": "Technician on site within 2 business days.",
    "multi_site_billing": "VERIFY",
    "placement_preference": "Bundled into supply. Café In would rather not sell equipment — the machine follows the coffee.",
    "service_model": "In-house maintenance and repair. Not subcontracted.",
    "repair_sla_scope": "SCOPE NOT YET CONFIRMED. Café In delivers as far as Abitibi-Témiscamingue (~600 km). Two business days in Longueuil is not the same promise as two business days in Rouyn-Noranda. Published scoped to the core region until Philipp says otherwise."
  },
  "commercial": {
    "multi_location": true,
    "consolidated_invoicing": "Yes — one invoice across a group of sites where the client wants it.",
    "payment_terms": "Net terms available on account.",
    "delivery": "Own delivery in the core region; pallet freight beyond it",
    "minimum_order": "None. Café In does not impose a minimum order.",
    "rfq_channel": "info@breuvagescafein.com",
    "minimum_order_note": "A differentiator worth stating plainly — Café Barista, the strongest performer in the search baseline, publishes a 10 kg / 5 kg minimum and a fee below it."
  },
  "credentials": {
    "insurance": "Commercial general liability $5,000,000 general aggregate / $2,000,000 per occurrence. Beneva policy 1C60506E, in force to 30 June 2027. Certificate on request.",
    "food_safety": "CFIA Safe Food for Canadians licence no. 8VLXGDJL, issued/renewed 2024-02-14, valid to 2028-02-14, held by 9213-6282 Québec Inc. Federal licence under the SFCA — stronger than a provincial permit for a distributor.",
    "quebec_content": "NOT a Café In credential. Aliments du Québec certifies a PRODUCT made or processed in Québec; Café In is a distributor and does not roast, so the designation belongs to the roaster. Philipp, 22 Sept: FARO may hold one, so some lines carried may qualify. DO NOT claim it until confirmed with FARO in writing.",
    "seao_registered": "Registered, account in good standing. Philipp, 22 Sept — held for the OMHM contract.",
    "food_safety_diary": "Renewal due 14 Feb 2028."
  },
  "deliberately_excluded": {
    "$comment": "Decisions taken 19 Sept 2026. Each has a reason. Do not add these without Philipp's explicit say-so.",
    "pricing": "Publishing price structure hands it to suppliers and competitors. RFQ-only.",
    "by_product_lines": "Dolim and Tender Blend are by-product lines whose economics depend on not attracting attention. NEVER list them.",
    "client_names": "🔴 STANDING RULE (Philipp, 22 Sept 2026): do NOT name clients. A named client is a target list for competitors. THE ONE EXCEPTION is the Office municipal d'habitation de Montréal (OMHM) — won on an open public tender, so the relationship is already a matter of public record and naming it adds nothing a competitor could not find in SEAO. Named on the seniors-residences page only.",
    "revenue_and_margin": "Competitive information. Published scale figures are operational only.",
    "supplier_names": "Naming the roasters invites buyers to go around Café In."
  },
  "known_problems": {
    "domain_collision": "cafe-in.ca is a different company (Café In Brûlerie / Bar à vin, Québec City). A buyer guessing the domain lands on a wine bar.",
    "miscategorised": "TripAdvisor and RestaurantGuru list Les Breuvages Cafe In Inc as a RESTAURANT in Longueuil, with reviews. A buyer doing diligence finds a restaurant review page. Request removal/recategorisation.",
    "baseline": "Appeared in 0 of 24 realistic buyer searches, 19 Sept 2026."
  },
  "vacant_queries": {
    "$comment": "Searches with NO qualified Quebec B2B supplier in the results. These are the cheapest to win and they map onto Café In's real segments.",
    "tier1_no_supplier_at_all": [
      "approvisionnement café résidences pour aînés Québec",
      "qui fournit le café aux résidences privées pour aînés au Québec",
      "fournisseur café CHSLD appel d'offres Québec",
      "fournisseur chocolat chaud institutionnel Québec"
    ],
    "tier2_wrong_country_or_channel": [
      "fournisseur gobelets et couvercles carton Québec grossiste — EVERY result was from France",
      "distributeur café sachets filtres 1.5 oz Québec — returned Home Depot and Best Buy",
      "bulk hot chocolate supplier Canada institutional — retail and US only"
    ],
    "pattern_that_wins": "Café Barista publishes delivery minimums, fees, support hours and no-contract terms — but NOT per-kg price. Publish the terms, withhold the price. Exactly the decision already taken here."
  }
}