About Full Spectrum

Full Spectrum started as a specialty coffee roastery in Coffs Harbour, built on real sourcing relationships and a serious approach to roasting. Founder Todd McCarthy has worked through Campos Coffee, Reuben Hills, and Deluca.

That coffee knowledge is still the core of the business. It's just no longer the only thing it does.

Over time, working closely with roasters, cafes and venues turned up the same questions again and again: can you make this for us, can you help us size equipment properly, can you source this for us directly. Rather than turn those questions away, Full Spectrum built out the capability to answer them.

That's now Full Spectrum Trade — freeze-dried instant manufacturing, equipment and consulting, and green coffee sourcing, all running alongside the core roasting and retail business. Wholesale coffee supply runs through FS Collective.

None of it works as a separate identity. It works because it's the same coffee knowledge, applied to a wider set of problems.

Before anything gets pitched to a client, it goes through two real environments, not a pitch deck. New equipment and setups get worked out first at the espresso bar in our roastery. From there, it's stress-tested at Canteen, our shipping container cafe at Toormina Gardens, doing around 1,500 coffees a week against real service pressure and regular trade patterns.

Canteen isn't a separate brand exercise, it's a real, high-volume operating environment we run ourselves. If something doesn't hold up there, it doesn't go further.

The Full Spectrum family covers a lot of ground, but these distances don’t mean we aren’t close. We take pride in nurturing our relationships with our import and export partners to ensure that fair prices are being paid to coffee producers for their hard work. Knowing that the livelihoods of those who work at ground zero are being protected is our top priority.

We utilise recyclable packaging made from plant based materials so not to contribute to the overwhelming waste generated by the coffee industry. We are forever looking for new ways to utilise our hessian bags! If you've got new uses, please reach out. We encourage cafes and home brewers to recycle their spent grounds by mixing them through compost or donating to local home vege growers.

Todd McCarthy founded and runs Full Spectrum. He's worked through Campos Coffee, Reuben Hills, and Deluca. Everything Full Spectrum does, from roasting to manufacturing to equipment consulting, runs through his direct involvement, not a layer of account managers.