coffee business strategies

There’s no denying that Billy Bob Thornton is one talented dude. He has a successful acting career, is an arguably passable musician, won an Oscar for writing the film Sling Blade in 1997 (in which he starred and also directed) and last, but not least, married and subsequently walked away from Angelina Jolie.

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

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Neat article on MSN (in their City Guides section) looks at Seattle’s coffee culture and discusses barista competitions.
Thanks to Starbucks, coffee is big business in America, where specialty espresso drinks—lattes, cappuccinos, macchiatos—have replaced the diner “cup of joe.”
But long before Starbucks was a household name, the coffee revolution was underway in mid-1970s Seattle, [...]

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I was surprised when a client mentioned to me last week that she had recently seen an article that quoted me in a hospitality and lodging magazine; assumed that it must have been one from last year. Nope — it’s a new one. I had almost forgotten about this interview for Lodging Magazine [...]

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Uganda’s New Vision newspaper reports that Urth Caffe (popular Los Angeles establishment, but underrated by the specialty coffee industry in my opinion) has pledged a $500,000 investment in the country’s coffee industry; a bold move.
Hopefully, the paper’s choice of title was just a bad choice of words rather than doubt that the investment will pay [...]

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