Second Floor, Coffee Shop Serving Fruit Flavored Coffee Blends

Coffee shops are currently the main choice for all groups to hang out with relatives, friends, partners and family while enjoying coffee. However, usually coffee shops not only provide a menu of various types of coffee, but also non-coffee items such as tea, chocolate, matcha, and others.

One of the coffee shops in Denpasar called Second Floor offers a choice of various coffees mixed with various kinds of fruit. This concept is aimed at visitors who don’t really like coffee.

The owner of Second Floor, Adi Suhendra, said that from the results of his research over five years, most visitors to group coffee shops did not all order coffee, but instead ordered non-coffee menus. In fact, said Adi, the caffeine levels in non-coffee drinks are higher than coffee itself.

Tuni and Adam’s menu at the Second Floor coffee shop which serves fruit-flavored coffee in Denpasar. (Rizky Setyo)

“This means that caffeine tolerance in the blood of my friends or people in my research doesn’t really matter if they consume coffee,” said Adi when met at Second Floor, Kesiman, Denpasar, Saturday (25/1/2025).

However, Adi said that people’s perception of coffee is that it has high levels of caffeine and sugar. Therefore, he tried to do research so that coffee could be mixed with fruit to replace the sweet taste of granulated sugar.

“There was a research development where I mixed coffee with fruit as a sweet substitute for chemical sugar, granulated sugar and so on,” explained Adi.

In his research, Adi created several coffee menus with various fruits, on the cold brew coffee menu there was a menu called Adam, a mixture of Arabica coffee with roses, Bolsa, a mixture of coffee with strawberries. Then, Kintamani’ mixes coffee with oranges, then Tupi mixes coffee with pineapple and several other menus.

Meanwhile, in his signature coffee, there is a mixture of coffee with guava fruit which he calls Black Guava. Then, Mankay is mixed with mango, Red Queen is mixed with lychee and strawberries. There is also a mixture of avocado, lemon called Juniper and various other fruits such as kiwi and seaweed. In total there are six cold brew coffee menus and eight signature menus.

Adi ensures that all of his menus do not contain chemical sugar. So, the sweet taste remains from the fruit. He explained the reason he chose fruit because Indonesian people have been accustomed to consuming fruit since childhood.

Second Floor owner, Adi Suhendra. (Rizky Setyo)

As a result, all visitors who want to try the experience of drinking coffee but with the sweet taste of fruit can try it on the Second Floor. The retired telecom industry man has been fond of drinking coffee since 2000.

When he was transferred to several areas, he often tried local coffee from that area. His desire to build a coffee shop arose.

“I only saw that at that time they only focused on classic coffee. So when people came to the coffee shop the concept was to hang out,” he said.

During the research, Adi admitted that he was detailed enough to find the data. As a result, he decided to build Second Floor with a market share of non-coffee lovers.

“The target is not coffee enthusiasts or coffee lovers but the enthusiast’s friends. So if six of them come, four of them will definitely not (order) coffee. So how can these four people taste coffee,” he explained.

Everything he has built so far is based on in-depth research. He didn’t want to open a coffee shop just to go with the flow. Adi wants to have his own characteristics in his business.

Adi explained that the fruit is fermented first, so that it can create the taste of the fruit and its natural sweet taste.

Apart from his coffee, Adi also pays attention to the ice he uses. He admitted that he used ice that he made himself. Because, when the ice melts in the coffee it can reduce the quality of the coffee blend itself.

“We don’t use expensive tools, simple tools are made in a simple box. Second floor style ice crystals are born and they last for an hour,” he said.

He applied all the technological knowledge he gained from his old job and school until he became an engineer in the technology of his coffee business. He gets all his fruit and coffee from all over the archipelago, without taking it from abroad.

Currently, Second Floor has had six branches since it was founded in 2018. One branch is in Bali and five other branches are in Jakarta.

“Currently we have six branches in Jakarta. Later in April we will open a second pour coffee in Grand Indonesia,” said Adi.

In the future, he wants to add branches in several cities such as Surabaya, Bandung, Medan, Palembang, Semarang, Makassar and Manado. Adi wants to provide an experience for people who are not coffee connoisseurs who can taste coffee with a different and unique taste.

detikBali had the opportunity to try out Tupi and Adam coffee. When trying the Tupi menu, the combination of coffee and sour taste from pineapple is very soft and smooth. Meanwhile, Adam’s menu has a sweet and fragrant rose flavor when you try it, plus a comfortable and calm coffee shop atmosphere. Second Floor is suitable for working and relaxing with relatives or partners.

Adi also gave testimony about the menu he will launch, namely a combination of chocolate, coffee, ginger and strawberries. The plan is that the new menu will be launched at the grand opening of its seventh branch in Grand Indonesia, Jakarta.

For information, the Second Floor is located at Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai Number 86, Kesiman Kertalangu, East Denpasar, Denpasar City. Open every day from 08.00-17.00 WIT. To buy one coffee, you only need to spend IDR 55 thousand-IDR 75 thousand.

(nor/nor)