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Do coffee shops discriminate against women?

Posted by TheShot on 10 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends

Slate Magazine published an article today that posed an interesting question: Do coffee shops discriminate against women? - By Tim Harford - Slate Magazine. The crux of the article is economic research [PDF, 364kb] performed on eight Boston area cafés where the researcher compared the customer service times based on sex, age, race, drink type, [...]

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A shot at perfection - Espresso in Boston and New York

Posted by TheShot on 19 Apr 2006 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Home Brew, Machine

Today’s Boston Globe featured a few good articles on the few espresso purveyors in Greater Boston and New York City who are out to set the standard properly: A shot at perfection - The Boston Globe.
The U.S. East Coast has been in the Espresso Dark Ages for far too long. As quoted in the article, [...]

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