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Dazbog delivers to customers no later than the next day. One recent morning the air filled with the oily nose-tingling smell drifting up from a batch of beans from a Costa Rican Doka plantation, "one of the best coffee farms," Leo says. To blend different beans and roast them at as many as 10 different levels to capture the right mix is "always a work in progress," Leo says. The company also sells and services coffee makers and espresso machines, and it has an office coffee division. Today, Dazbog has 18 employees and 1,000 customers throughout Colorado. Among them: Wild Oats, Vitamin Cottage, Hotel Teatro and the Oxford Hotel. There's not a Starbucks at the South Pole yet, but there is Dazbog coffee. Englewood- based Raytheon Polar Services, which operates three research stations in the Antarctic, "has been a customer for years," Tony says. Coffee is shipped to the stations twice a year along with other supplies. And the company trains somebody to maintain and repair the coffee equipment. "We can't exactly make service calls." Dazbog's first customer, Zaidy's Deli, has never strayed. "Their product is very good. Their support service is great," says Gerard Rudofsky, owner of the longtime Cherry Creek restaurant. "We get a lot of compliments from our customers. It's not fancy. It's just a good, hearty coffee." Like Dazbog, Zaidy's is a family-owned independent business. "It makes a difference," Rudofsky says. "We're both doing the same thing."