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Media profiles of Illycaffè‘s Andrea Illy are commonplace. But this one from today’s The Guardian (UK) is better than most: Andrea Illy: family businessman who’s raising the bar for premium coffee | Business | The Guardian. For one, Mr. Illy talks about the importance of pricing and brand positioning. Regardless of what you think of [...]

Tags: andrea_illy, barista_training, coffee_marketing, consistency, corporate_social_responsibility, fair_trade, illy, misery_market, Starbucks

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We published our first trip report for Sightglass last July: Sightglass Coffee, Version 0.3. Back then, Sightglass was a tiny espresso-serving kiosk at the front of a vast, 4,000-sq-ft space with a 14-kg Probat roasting operation planned to start in the Fall of 2009. We revisited Sightglass this week to see how much things have [...]

Tags: acf_cups, chemex, coffee_roasting, consistency, espresso_review, fourth_wave, four_barrel, la_marzocco, pressure_, slayer_espresso_machine, soma, third_wave, verve

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Has it really been a couple weeks since our last third wave rant? A few years after we thought this topic was dead and buried, lately newbie third wave coffee articles have been cropping up in local newspapers like teenage vampire profiteers. London, Oakland, and now Vancouver: Indie cafés perfectly poised to quench coffee aficionados’ [...]

Tags: blue_bottle, cafe_cleanliness, coffee_chains, coffee_marketing, consistency, mom-and-pop-coffee, peets_coffee, quality_standards, ritual_roasters, sammy_piccolo, sf_cafes, Starbucks, third_wave, vancouver_cafes

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One of the things that the big coffee chains do well is consistency. Or at least that’s the conventional wisdom, lifted straight from the fast food chain playbook. A McDonald’s french fry is pretty much the same everywhere, and the coffee served at a big chain is little different. Or so we’ve all been told. [...]

Tags: blue_bottle, coffee_chains, consistency, illy, la_marzocco, mr-espresso, paper_cups, peets_coffee, Starbucks, verismo

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