Industry News
August 5, 2008
Sorting Out Coffee's Contradictions
Through the years, the public has been buffeted by much misguided information about caffeine and its most common source, coffee.
July 19, 2008
Starbucks and America's First Taste of the Greater Depression
Starbucks is the first, but not the last example of how a falling dollar will make most items that Americans over consume too expensive for Americans to buy with their crumbling currency.
July 19, 2008
Save Our Starbucks Campaigns Launched: Is Starbucks Brilliant?
Now that Starbucks Corp. has disclosed the 600 locations (see the full, searchable list) it wants to shutter, a phenomenon is taking hold: the Save Our Starbucks campaign.
July 6, 2008
Some coffee fans get grim delight in Starbucks woes
One coffee drinker's bad news is another coffee drinker's good news, it seems.
July 1, 2008
Starbucks To Close 600 U.S. Stores
Starbucks Corp. has announced it's closing 600 underperforming stores in the United States.
June 12, 2008
Starbucks to open 150 more European locations
Starbucks is boosting its European presence with plans to license 150 new locations in Britain, France and Germany over the next three years.
May 14, 2008
If a caffeine jolt isn't enough...
If a caffeine jolt isn't enough, Starbucks customers will have another option starting Tuesday, when the Seattle coffee chain unveils its "+Energy" products in its U.S. stores.
April 8, 2008
I've bean to paradise
Guatemalans tend to be sweet. Colombians? Nutty. Africans are known for their potent acidity and aroma. Indonesians are generally earthy and heavy. Not the people or football teams - the coffee beans.
February 27, 2008
Starbucks Promises Customers Perfection
SEATTLE — A day after shutting down most of its U.S. shops for three hours to retrain baristas on espresso basics, Starbucks is welcoming customers back Wednesday with a new promise posted in stores: "Your drink should be perfect, every time. If not, let us know and we'll make it right."
February 18, 2008
Drive-thru-coffee players brew up new tactics as McD's espresso rollout looms
As McDonald's gears up to sell espresso-based beverages systemwide, other specialty coffee operations that have drive-thrus smell both challenges and opportunities.
November, 2007
Craves: All That And a Bag of Beans
Home espresso machines are subject to derision from some coffee snobs...
October 15, 2007
McD thirsts for $1B in new beverage sales
OAK BROOK, ILL. — Eyeing $1 billion in incremental sales that would be siphoned largely from the Starbucks-dominated coffeehouse sector, McDonald’s is poised to pursue a massive espresso beverage rollout
October 1, 2007
Idiot-Proof Espresso Machines End Excuses, Target U.S. Market
Even though U.S. retail sales of coffee totaled $29.3 billion last year, Illycaffe SpA says, most Americans don't know beans about the drink.
August 7, 2006
Basta With The Venti Frappuccinos
You think you know coffee? Forget it. You don't know coffee like Andrea Illy knows coffee. The 42-year-old head of Illycaffè will tell you to use a light hand with the steamed milk and skip the caramel syrup.
