coffee business strategies

It was interesting to read the the latest post from industry blog Coffee Hero, “Espresso Vivace Now Without Robusta,” for two reasons: 1) as a fan of Espresso Vivace, I have enjoyed the Dolce blend in the past (though, admittedly it has been a few years) and 2) because the article also sets a few [...]

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The Sydney Morning Herald takes a look at one coffee business owner that trusts his sense of taste over convention, using pure Robusta coffee in his espresso blends instead of Arabica coffees. Paolo Dicembre, owner of the Sydney Coffee Centre and DiVi Espresso Bar “rejects the conventional wisdom of arabica-good, robusta-bad,” which is my opinion [...]

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Continuing the year-end summary of my business and travels from this year, we look at the second half of 2008. Considering the increase in business activity from June through December, I conjecture that the economic slowdown has had little or no effect on the specialty coffee business, or at least not mine (or not yet, [...]

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