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So, as you may have imagined, I’ve been pretty busy these last couple of weeks. Joe Bush of CSP Magazine chronicles the recent Hot Beverage trends symposium that I moderated following the SCAA conference in Minneapolis. It was a productive, fun-filled and yet exhausting weekend. Joe has all of the details:
MINNEAPOLIS – [...]

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CSP Magazine published a summary of their annual Convenience Retailing University session, this year held in San Antonio, Texas on February 12-13. I am honored to see my session “C-Store Coffee Success” get coverage in the wrap-up beside Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer and Stephen Covey, motivational speaker and co-founder of FranklinCovey. [...]

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MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The nation’s top espresso-makers battled it out Monday to be called best-of-the-best, but it was Kyle Glanville of Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea who took home top honors. Glanville won the Specialty Coffee Association of America’s (SCAA) highly competitive 2008 United States Barista Championship (USBC), hosted by Krups. The heated competition took place at SCAA’s [...]

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Couldn’t make it to Minneapolis this year? Check out the live SCAA 2008 conference blog.

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Black Coffee Screening at SCAA Conference on Saturday, May 3, 2008
Join other SCAA conference attendees for a special screening of the film series Black Coffee, which traces the unique and volatile history of coffee. The Perfect Cup, the episode being screened, heralds what some coffee experts have called “the romantic age of coffee.” North Americans [...]

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