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Vintage Trend: When wine is nothing like Starbucks

Posted by TheShot on 05 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Starbucks

This weekend’s New York Times Magazine featured an article that sort of did a reverse take on the ever-popular wine analogy for coffee: Vintage Trend - Retail Wines Chains - Wines - Alcoholic Beverages - Alcohol - Consumed - Rob Walker - New York Times. Except this time, the Times writer, Rob Walker, got it [...]

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I’m fluent in coffee, booze – so give me your best shot

Posted by TheShot on 07 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: Café Society

Bill Hall wrote an article in today’s Tacoma, WA The News Tribune illustrating the many parallels between espresso bars and, well, “bar” bars: I’m fluent in coffee, booze – so give me your best shot. It includes the fanciful drinks ordered by people who really don’t like what is really in them (be it espresso [...]

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