Eileen Rinaldi managed a Torrefazione Italia in the Financial District before opening Ritual’s first café, where roasting began on a 5 kilo Probat in 2006. A production roastery in SoMa followed in 2009, and a retrofitted 1950s Probat UG-22 in 2010. Coffees come from producers in Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Mexico, Colombia, and Guatemala, bought through a relationship-based sourcing model begun in 2007.
Staff origin trips went to Honduras in 2014 and El Salvador in 2016. A new café is scheduled to open on October 22, 2026 at California and Battery in the Financial District, in the building that housed the Torrefazione Italia Rinaldi once managed.