coffee business strategies

Associated Press Business Writer Lauren Shepherd interviews Andrew Hetzel of Cafemakers and others regarding the recent consumer trend favoring lighter roasted coffee: NEW YORK — Coffee lovers, burned out from the dark roasts popularized by some gourmet specialty coffee chains, are increasingly turning to lighter-roasted beans for their daily pick-me-ups. Coffee industry watchers say as [...]

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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 that we [...]

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I had a good interview with the New Paper from Singapore earlier this week, which resulted in the following article surrounding the Asia Barista Championship. Although missing the technical points of our discussion completely (sour coffee and chalky milk comments were blended), he does a nice job of capturing the spirit of competition. WE live [...]

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The article below appeared in the New Times (Kigali) on Feb. 10, 2008 and very timely, as I urge Hawaii to adopt standards for coffee tasting and grading: Eugene Kwibuka Kigali Over thirty coffee tasters from different corners of the country have completed a three day training course on advanced coffee valuing techniques. The training [...]

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…and how appropriate, considering the volume of espresso that I had this morning! In what I can honestly say is the single most impressive piece of writing and editing of a news story involving me, Erika Engle of the Honolulu Star Bulletin masterfully extracts the essence of a very complicated and obscure subject (coffee tasting [...]

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