by andrew | Jun 4, 2012 | business, featured, ideas, news, quality, retail
The May 2012 issue of Specialty Coffee Retailer magazine included an article on the topic of effectively implementing a single origin coffee program (or single source, as they call it) in retail coffee shops. The full article is included here, as are my notes from the...
by andrew | Apr 10, 2012 | ideas, retail
The February 2012 issue of Specialty Coffee Retailer features the article “A Resource for Human Resources,” that focuses on professional employer organizations (PEO’s) and other companies that offer outsourced administrative services that help to...
by andrew | Feb 23, 2012 | economy, industry, retail
How many coffee shops are too many for one town to absorb? The question has come up time and time again over my years in the business and I always come to the same answer: there’s no such thing as too many good coffee shops. Arguably the term ‘good’...
by andrew | Dec 31, 2011 | economy, featured, industry, origin, quality, retail |
The January / February 2012 issue of Roast Magazine includes a feature Specialty Coffee’s New Frontier article about the emerging coffee markets of China, the Middle East, India and Russia titled, “The New Frontier.” This handy introduction to...
by andrew | Dec 29, 2011 | associations, industry, retail, roasting
Some will look back at 2011 as the year of sweeping political change in the Middle East and Egypt, or as the year that a 9.0 earthquake killed at least 16,000 people and triggered a dangerous nuclear reactor meltdown in Fukushima, Japan, or even as the year that the...
by andrew | Dec 18, 2011 | economy, retail
Coffee consumption in South Korea continues its rapid growth, according to the Korean International Trade Association, who today reported coffee imports totaling $508 million for the first 10 months of 2011. By comparison, the total for all of 2010 was $307 million. A...