Case Study: Death Wish Coffee achieves paperless operations and SQF mastery with SafetyChain Software

How Death Wish Coffee Went Paperless & Mastered SQF

Death Wish Coffee, a rapidly growing Upstate New York roaster known for high‑caffeine blends, operates three facilities with just over 30 employees and a small FSQA team. Facing paper‑based recordkeeping, limited visibility across sites, and no prior SQF experience, the company needed a way to centralize data, reduce paperwork for audits, and build operator accountability while scaling into larger retailers.

Death Wish implemented SafetyChain’s food safety and quality platform—standardizing forms, training staff, and rolling out tablets and Wi‑Fi—to go paperless and capture real‑time data. The change delivered faster corrective actions and accountability, reclaimed hours of staff time, cut waste (bag prints dropped from ~500 to ~120/day), achieved 99% compliance, and supported growth into major retailers like Walmart.

Death Wish Coffee

CJ De Luca

Quality Assurance Manager