Business
SunLife Organics
An LA-and-California organic juice, smoothie, and açaí-bowl chain founded by Khalil Rafati — multiple locations across LA, Malibu, Santa Barbara, and the broader Southern California coast. Distinctive for the founder's recovery-story-into-business arc and the Malibu wellness-culture lineage the brand emerged from.
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What they do
SunLife Organics makes organic cold-press juices, smoothies, açaí bowls, and superfood drinks across ~15+ storefronts in greater LA, Malibu, and the [[berkeley|California]] coast. The brand was founded by Khalil Rafati after his recovery from addiction — the story of getting clean, getting into wellness work, and building the juice business is part of how SunLife presents itself, and it has shaped the company culture (the brand is overtly [[mission-district-sf|mission]]-driven about its role in recovery and wellness communities).
Why it’s listed
The juice-bar category is dominated by founders without much to say beyond “we sell juice.” SunLife is the rare case where the founder’s story is part of the alignment — recovery, second chances, and the idea that what you put in your body matters because the alternative is back where you came from. [[directory|The directory]] cares about that lineage. The organic supply chain and the multi-location operational discipline are the operational case; the recovery arc is the cultural one.
Bioregional fit
SunLife is Malibu-headquartered with locations across the [[los-angeles-basin]] and up the [[berkeley|California]] coast.
See also
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- Instance of: [[juice-bar]]
- Shares approach with: [[kreation-organic-juicery]]
- Member of: [[business]]
- Contained by: [[los-angeles-basin]]
Sources
Related concepts: [[juice-bar]] · [[organic-agriculture]].
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Practical
shares approach with
- Kreation Organic Juicery the LA juice scene's two-brand independent core — Kreation on never-HPP organic-only, SunLife with the wider superfood-smoothie catalog
- Los Angeles Basin auto-linked from body mention
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