Posted by TheShot on 07 May 2008 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Local Brew, Quality Issues
As we hinted in a previous post, San Francisco magazine just published Josh Sens’ story on the more recent evolution of San Francisco’s local coffee scene in its most recent issue: A new buzz | San Francisco online. (There’s even an article featuring CoffeeRatings.com: The coffee bard | San Francisco online.)
The article features Coffee Bar, [...]
Posted by TheShot on 31 May 2007 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Starbucks
Starbucks Coffee announced today that it is changing its dairy standard for all of its espresso-based drinks, switching from whole milk to reduced fat (i.e., 2%) milk in all Starbucks stores in the U.S. and Canada by the end of 2007: Daytrading, Eminis, Forex trading, Swing Trading BREAKING NEWS - 559959 - Starbucks Coffee To [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 29 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Coffee Health, Consumer Trends, Starbucks
Ignore the stating-the-obvious article title for a moment. Even ignore my latest tirade against unimaginative writers who use the caffeine riff as a synomym for coffee.
Today WCCO-TV, the CBS affiliate in Minneapolis, published a story on how they tested the caffeine levels of random decaffeinated coffee samples at five different retailers: wcco.com - Decaf Coffee [...]
Posted by TheShot on 09 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Quality Issues, Robusta
Decaffeinated coffee was once treated a lot like robusta: as some kind of crude, faux coffee that caters to consumers with the misfortune of a biological defect. But just as high-quality, expertly prepared robusta beans started appearing on the market from places such as India (for blending into quality roasts for espresso, etc.), decaf coffee [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 13 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Fair Trade, Starbucks
Are Starbucks and Borders destined to become mirror images of each other? Today’s San Diego Union Tribune asks that question in: The latest blend: coffee, movies & books.
You have to wonder about some market extensions and product/service mergers. One of my favorite storefronts to mock is in a dumpy strip mall as you pass through [...]