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Leave it to the Australians to best capture the state of Big Coffee in America, as reported today on Melbourne’s The Age: There’s a war brewing, but taste is still the loser on America’s coffee front. The article points out America’s escalating obsession with quality coffee, but (IMO, correctly) notes how poor the baseline coffee [...]

Tags: australia_coffee, cafe_customers, dunkin_donuts, espresso_lingo, quality_standards, Starbucks

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There are few things that illustrate the great divide between the old, traditional way of looking at coffee and something of a more recent way than reactions to the price of coffee. (Neither way of which is more or less correct than the other, mind you.)
On the one hand, we have the new psychology of [...]

Tags: 4_dollar_coffee_myth, auction_coffee, cafe_customers, coffee_pricing, dunkin_donuts, Starbucks

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If you already thought two Starbucks on every corner was overkill, and if you thought their breakneck expansion diluted their quality like a packet of Kool-Aid dumped in a county reservoir, you ain’t seen nothing yet. At least according to Starbucks CEO, Howard Schultz, who recently said, “[T]he saturation opportunity in the US is not [...]

Tags: caffe_trieste, coffee_chains, dunkin_donuts, howard_schultz, peets_coffee, Starbucks

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Giving Starbucks the Starbucks treatment? Unthinkable.
Today’s Washington Post published an article on how Dunkin’ Donuts plans for coffee imperialism are now colliding with those of Starbucks: Big Fight Brews For Average Joe. With new Dunkin’ Donuts outlets opening next door to Starbucks, the Coffee Wars are getting more interesting all the time.
Fight! Fight! Fight!

Tags: coffee_chains, dunkin_donuts, Starbucks

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Somehow the editors of today’s USA TODAY let this article slip by without a pie chart: USATODAY.com - Taste test: The little joes take on Starbucks. Somebody is getting a pink slip.
But in this article, USA TODAY food and wine critic Jerry Shriver takes a very CoffeeRatings.com-like approach to reviewing the “premium” drip coffee at [...]

Tags: cafe_reviews, dunkin_donuts, fast_food_coffee, mcdonalds, Starbucks

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Since everything I learned about coffee I learned by watching NBC’s Today show, I had to share an article that came across my desk today highlighting some of their top picks for home coffee and espresso machines: Make a great cup of joe with the latest makers - Today: Food - MSNBC.com.
The article was written [...]

Tags: capresso, coffee_pods, dunkin_donuts, espresso_machines, home_espresso, illy, jura, krups, pasquini, percolator, rancilio

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McDonald’s is apparently feeling the heat from consumers’ changing tastes in coffee. According to yesterday’s Chicago Tribune, McDonald’s is planning to switch their customers to a new “premium roast” instead of the dreck they’ve been sloshing for the past 30 years: New McDonald’s brew (or as The Arizona Republic put it today: McDonald’s to tap [...]

Tags: dunkin_donuts, fast_food_coffee, mcdonalds, Starbucks

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Do you get what you pay for when it comes to coffee?
Philadelphia’s CBS TV affiliate decided to put that question to a test. Setting up shop in a suburban bowling alley, they arranged a sample taste test that compared coffee made with pre-packaged beans from Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts, Folgers, and a bargain store brand from [...]

Tags: best_coffee, dunkin_donuts, folgers, Starbucks

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