The Breaks Gets Cracking at Larger Sioux Falls Roastery

Howard Bryman | September 8, 2025

The new Mill City Roasters machine inside The Breaks’ new roastery in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. All images courtesy of The Breaks.

Ready for a bigger break into South Dakota and beyond, Sioux Falls-based The Breaks Coffee Roasting is more than doubling its roasting capacity while spreading out production tasks in a larger roasting facility less than a mile from its original space.

In the new high-ceilinged 2,000-square-foot facility, a 15-kilo-capacity Mill City Roasters machine will anchor the company’s continued growth, with approximately two-thirds of the space devoted to production and storage. Work continues on a commercial kitchen and offices that will occupy the remaining space.

“We’ve had to renovate the space, updating gas, electric, plumbing, cosmetics, etc. but are at the tail end of the project now,” The Breaks Coffee Roasting Owner Corey Gerlach told Daily Coffee News.

Roasted coffees will start flowing from the new machine in the coming weeks, while the 6-kilo-capacity Mill City machine in the original 1,000-square-foot roastery cafe will remain in regular use.

“We love the interactivity of roasting alongside customers, and the opportunities for conversation, connection and engagement that it provides,” said Gerlach. “We wanted to preserve that.”

The Breaks was founded by co-owners Gerlach and Mary Campbell in 2015 as a direct-to-consumer coffee roaster. The company offered wholesale roasting services beginning in 2016.

The original The Breaks cafe.

Roasting moved into the company’s first cafe, which opened five years ago. The cafe space will remain active as operations ramp up in the new centrally located warehouse.

“We’re looking to be able to take advantage of additional catering and production opportunities,” said Gerlach. “The biggest thing that has changed or evolved since 2020 is that we feel more established — dare we say, experienced? — and more set in our identity in the community and neighborhood. We’ve got a wonderful built-in base of regular customers who have been with us from the gate to help create that, we’re so grateful.”