Coffee Retailers Influencing the Wireless Charging Industry
Starbucks, which years ago helped lead the charge to make Wi-Fi an ubiquitous coffee shop amenity, may now be leading the way in wireless charging. [...]
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Florida’s Kahwa Coffee to Exponentially Grow Roasting and Retail Ops
St. Petersburg, Fla.-based roastery Kahwa Coffee is moving into a new roasting space with plans to double production, expand distribution regionally and nationally, and triple [...]
GMCR Makes Restaurant Pod Push with Foodservice Certification
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters is pushing for more commercial applications for its single-serve Keurig brewing platform. The company last week announced that its Keurig® K150 Series Commercial Brewing [...]
Bay Area’s Philz Coffee Inks Eight Figure Investment Deal
San Francisco Bay-area roastery and retail company Philz Coffee has entered into an investment deal with with the global firm Summit Partners. The exact terms of [...]
Cybercrime Company Sees Coffee Shops as Fertile Ground for Criminals
Cybercrime prevention company ThreatMetrix has set its sights on coffee shops, with a new infographic designed to raise awareness among laptop-toting coffee consumers. For coffee [...]
Younger Consumers Choosing Taste Over Convenience, Study Shows
Convenience or quality? This is a tug of war that exists at every specialty coffee retail location, and it appears younger consumers may be pulling [...]
Stunning Beachside Coffee Kiosk Composed of Reclaimed Flood Barriers
A beachside coffee shop in Torquay, Australia, is making use of reclaimed flood barriers as exterior walls. In name, the Third Wave Kiosk not only [...]
Quit Asking Questions and Read this Free Book on Espresso
After hearing countless questions from patrons and others about how to craft quality espresso, the crew at Has Bean Coffee in Stafford, England, has decided [...]
Quality Baristas by Far the Biggest Driver of Customer Satisfaction
While it may seem painfully obvious to many coffee shop operators, friendly and knowledgeable staff is the biggest driver of customer satisfaction in specialty coffee [...]
Caffe Sospeso (Suspended Coffee) Movement Afoot in Struggling Bulgaria
The Italian tradition of caffe sospeso, translated as suspended coffee, has reportedly taken hold in some 150 coffee shops in Bulgaria, considered the European Union’s [...]
