coffee business strategies

Two good news articles were published recently on the topic of independent coffee houses thriving in competition with Starbucks. The first, an article from the San Antonio Express news Java Junkies: Independents Challenge Starbucks containing a quote by me and the second from NPR’s Morning Edition Independent Coffee Houses Thrive in Starbucks’ Shadow. Both do a very nice job of correctly summarizing the state of the American indepedent specialty coffee shop competition with larger chains and dispel some popular but entirely untrue myths.