Ninety-year-old Steve Kaloyanides, Sr., has already had a couple of cups of coffee by the time he arrives at work each day around 10:30 a.m. at New England Coffee in Malden, but there’s always room for more. For 70 years—since he got out of the Navy in 1946—Kaloyanides has been devoted to New England Coffee, the company his father, Menelaos, his Uncle George, and their cousin, Megaklis, founded in Boston in 1916. He tries to get in to work five days a week to taste and sample the product to help ensure that the quality will remain as good as it has been for 100 years.
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