coffee business strategies

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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SAN DIMAS, CA –(Marketwire - February 21, 2008) - Just two days after Coffee Klatch Roasting of Southern California announced that it would serve free coffee at its two coffee shops when all U.S. Starbucks stores close on February 26 for employee retraining, hundreds of independent coffee shops and small chain locations have followed suit [...]

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SAN JOSE, CA, US - February is the month of coffee and love with Valentine’s Day and Specialty Coffee month sharing the stage. And that coffee love is blooming at Silicon valley’s Barefoot Coffee Roasters. Barefoot is hosting Guatemalan National Barista Champion Noe Castro for the month of February. Noe Castro was the Guatemala national [...]

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Hearty congratulations are in order for Peter, Cindy and the gang at Counter Culture Coffee for infiltrating the CIA — no, not that one, the Culinary Institute of America. I approached the CIA years ago to discuss adding coffee curriculum to their programs with no success (no response, really). Although envious that Counter [...]

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Article in the Arizona Republic (Scottsdale, AZ) quotes Andrew Hetzel about the market potential in the specialty coffee industry. Short, but sweet.

At 23, James Bruzzi is fulfilling his dreams.
He owns three coffee stores and a bakery. Nearly three years ago, he bought Mountain View Coffee Co. in Fountain Hills and small bakery in Scottsdale.
The [...]

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