H and H Coffee

Dedicated to the history of the Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co. founded 1899 in San Antonio, Texas.

Chris Jasso

Hoffmann-Hayman Superintendent, Packing Department as profiled in the 26 August 1923 San Antonio Light employee series (page 62), the same page as the “Unusual Ways of Making Coffee” recipes spread.

The article reads: “‘Chris’ renders an unparalleled service in the packing and preparing of H and H products for shipment to local and territorial grocers.”

The “local and territorial grocers” phrasing confirms H&H’s distribution reached beyond San Antonio to a broader South Texas territory, with the packing department serving both city and out-of-town accounts by 1923.

Open questions

  • Full vitals, San Antonio directory citations
  • Tenure dates (only 1923 attestation is in hand)
  • Did Jasso continue into the 1932 Delaware Street plant era? The 1923 packing-dept role would map to a similar role in the new facility.

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