Hello! We have affinity!

Before everything, there is Sun Ray Cafe.

Established 17th December 2010, we have started as a noob in this industry and struggled through a decade and past COVID to become the shape and size we are today. We did specialty coffee when nobody knew about cafe hopping. We roasted our own coffee in 2013 on a small electric roasting machine that is still with us awaiting the day when we shift it into our company 'museum'. We were one of the first pet-friendly cafes and we understand that we are in fact the oldest pet-friendly cafe in Singapore today. Your fur-kids can dine with you in air-con because we are a Singapore Food Agency licenced pet-friendly cafe. We even started baking breads and cakes. Sun Ray Cafe is indeed, our hardship, entrepreneurship, craftmanship and mothership. 

The roastery and bakery became Parchmen & Co in 2016, to focus on our passion for coffee, tea and pastries. Training services are also subsumed under Parchmen & Co, after we had major wins in both coffee and tea international competitions in 2017. Sun Ray Cafe remains the only hot kitchen for our group, with full time chefs. Although now an outlet of Parchmen & Co, but before everything, there is Sun Ray Cafe. 

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​Picture from: https://ordinarypatrons.com/2016/08/31/sun-ray-cafe-pet-friendly-cafe/

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​Sun Ray Cafe is very old and un-renovated. It reflects our past, our humble beginnings and underscores the fact that we remain debt-free in growing our business. We have even changed our logo a few times, and old design files were lost. The initial logo and font are the ones painted on the door of the cafe, spray-painted by the initial group of staff. The logo we are using today is a screenshot of an image that was also lost.

We started rough. We plough in today's profits for tomorrow's growth.

Super tough, but somehow we did it.

As of October 2024, we have 6 locations: 
Parchmen & Co @ Tampines 
Sun Ray Cafe @ Serangoon Gardens
Parched by Parchmen @ Ubi (Aspial One)
Parched by Parchmen @ Woodlands MRT Station (Thomson-East Coast Line Exit 6/7)
Pacto by Parchmen @ Jalan Besar Community Club (Lavender MRT Station)
Pacto by Parchmen @ Chinatown (next to Maxwell MRT Station) - Slated to open Nov 2024

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We have our fair share of mistakes in our decade in operations, against the backdrop of economic headwinds, local and imported competition, and evolving manpower. As we continue to toil the land, we will continue to put in our best.

We hope you are there to witness our growth,

footprint by footprint,

step by step.


 

Always sincerely,

Dave

​Sun Ray is my ship

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