by andrew | May 13, 2008 | business, news
Fresh off of their Oprah appearance this past Friday, our friends at Zingerman’s were featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition this Sunday, May 11th. In 1982, Paul Saginaw and Ari Weinzweig opened Zingerman’s Deli in Ann Arbor, Mich. After 26 years, they...
by andrew | Feb 21, 2008 | business, events, industry, marketing, news, retail, starbucks
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...
by andrew | Jan 31, 2008 | business, news, retail, starbucks
In the company’s best business move in years, Starbucks has nixed their breakfast sandwiches in order to stop pretending to be McDonald’s and return back to their core expertise: coffee. So far today, Wall Street does not seem to understand the move, but...
by andrew | Dec 21, 2007 | business, marketing, oddities, retail
From Stuff.Co.NZ I’m not one for frivolous litigation, but I am immensely pleased to see some independent group recognize that the serving vessel affects the experience of drinking a beverage — specifically coffee. B Hay complained that a poster...
by andrew | Dec 11, 2007 | business, news, retail |
Brew Ha Ha! gets serious with the addition of seven serious coffee beverages at its store in Center City, Philadelphia. Brew Ha Ha!’s menu additions include traditionally-prepared small but intense specialty coffee beverages, original Brew Ha Ha! signature...
by andrew | Nov 24, 2007 | business, ideas
It was only a matter of time until we started to see articles like this one in the Australian Daily Telegraph about businesses adding espresso bars to their offices to cut back on employee “cappuccino runs.” Coffee runs have become the new smoko and...
