Specialty Coffee Retailer articles from April 2001

Specialty Coffee Retailer archives from April 2001

Fast Coffee.
April 1, 2001... I recently received a press release from BP, the global corporate brand formed out of the merger of British Petroleum, Amoco Corporation, ARCO and Burmah Castrol. BP has partnered with an image and retail design firm to create 24-hour BP...

Stirling Gourmet Flavors Wins Best of Show Gold Medal.
April 1, 2001... Stirling Gourmet Flavors, Renton, Wash., manufacturer of gourmet flavoring syrups, was recently honored for the fourth consecutive year by the American Tasting Institute. Stirling was presented with another "Best Of Show" Gold Medal for Product...

Dunkin' Donuts Expands Further.
April 1, 2001... Randolph, Mass.-based Baskin-Robbins, Dunkin' Donuts and Togo's may soon be expanding rapidly through the eastern half of the United States, if a recently announced program is followed. The three brands will award development rights to major...

Boyd Is One of 100 Best.
April 1, 2001... In March, Portland, Ore.-based Boyd Coffee Company was named one of Oregon's top 100 companies to work for in 2001. The company was rank 49th in the list, which was announced at a luncheon on March 1.

Starbucks partners with Hyatt, Magic Johnson.
April 1, 2001... Hyatt Hotels Corporation and Starbucks Coffee Company announced that they have agreed to serve Starbucks coffee at more than 100 Hyatt properties across North America. The rollout was expected to be complete by the end of March. Starbucks...

Port City Java Adds Two Stores.
April 1, 2001... Wilmington, N.C.-based Port City Java has announced two new store openings in its hometown. The first store, located in an office building on a main thoroughfare in Wilmington, features a drive-through. The drive-through will help the store...

Coke Buys Planet Java.
April 1, 2001... The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, in January announced that it purchased the PJ Bean Co., Inc., and its Planet Java brand of ready-to-drink coffee beverages. Planet Java drinks are brightly packaged in 9.5-ounce bottles that target young adults....

Krispy Kreme Acquires Digital Java.
April 1, 2001... Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc., Winston-Salem, N.C., recently acquired Digital Java, a small Chicago-based coffee company. Digital Java was know as a sourcer and roaster of premium-quality coffees, and offered a broad line of hot and cold coffee...

Seattle Coffee Company Enters Resorts.
April 1, 2001... Seattle-based Seattle Coffee Company has announced a partnership with Intrawest Resort Properties to serve Seattle's Best and Torrefazione Italia coffees in 13 winter and summer resorts throughout the United States and Canada. Seattle's...

Chowbaby.com: an Eater's Digest.
April 1, 2001... Touting itself as a comprehensive Internet food bazaar, Chowbaby.com offers Web surfers the tools to find restaurants, coffeehouses, wineries, brew pubs and festivals around the world. The Web site allows visitors to search for restaurants by...

INDUSTRY VOICES.
April 1, 2001... Bruce Milletto, president 1. Why did you decide to start Bellissimo Coffee InfoGroup? In the early '90s, a period of unprecedented growth began in the specialty coffee industry. After opening numerous retail locations, what became...

SNACK TIME.
April 1, 2001... Snack manufacturers are catering more and more to coffeehouse owners with sweet and savory snack foods that blend right into the coffee menu. A specialty coffee retailers look for additional revenue streams many are adding new items to...

COFFEE, TEA or RTD?
April 1, 2001... Convenient ready-to-drink bottled and canned beverages are getting very interesting, and providing customers of all ages with lots of choices. Ready-to-drink beverages (RTD)--a growing sea of exotic and offbeat bottled teas, waters, sodas...

ROASTING TECHNIQUE.
April 1, 2001... When asked how to roast, most roasters are tongue-tied, and for good reason. There is no magic formula because there is no one best roast, and countless variables to be considered. Three seasoned roasters share their training grounds,...

Agtron, Inc.
April 1, 2001... Agtron Incorporated manufacturers Coffee Roast Analyzers for use in determining your coffees' exact degree of roast. Agtron also provides innovative Scientific Coffee Roasting Workshops focusing on consistency and improved cup quality. The...

Ambex, Inc.
April 1, 2001... The new Ambex YM-2 Table-top Roaster, with batch sizes from 1/2 pound to 5 pounds, is the ideal roaster for the beginning retail roaster. The Ambex YM-l5 Shop Roaster, with batch sizes from 5 pounds to 33 pounds, is a great roaster for...

Coffee Kinetics.
April 1, 2001... Suitable for coffee retailers, Coffee Kinetics' Tabletop Commercial Coffee Roaster is gas-fired, roasts 3 pounds of coffee per hour, and is fully automatic. The tabletop roaster features 10 roast settings, a visible roasting process, and a...

Diedrich Manufacturing, Inc.
April 1, 2001... Diedrich's IR-12 Deluxe Roaster is its most popular in-store roaster. The IR-12 Deluxe model features an internal chaff collector, eliminating the need for a bulky chaff collection system. The model also includes solid brass and stainless steel...

Heartware Home Products Inc.
April 1, 2001... Another home roaster, Hearthware Home Products' Precision Coffee Roaster Model No. 40006 features new patented electronic controls to make it the easiest home coffee roaster on the market. Hearthware Home Products' home roaster, the Gourmet...

Java Master Roasting Systems.
April 1, 2001... The Java Master is a small batch roaster, well known for its theater of the roasting process. Distinctive features include; easy-to-use, frilly automatic to manually controlled roasting, low maintenance requirements, green bean supply programs...

Primo Roasting Equipment.
April 1, 2001... Primo Roasting Equipment's most popular model, the PRI-TT (right), roasts 1 to 6 pounds per batch, and 36 pounds per hour. The larger PRI-50 roaster (left) roasts 5 to 50 pounds per batch, and 200 pounds per hour. Primo Roasting...

Probat, Inc.
April 1, 2001... Probat L25 The L 25 roaster has been designed for larger shops and smaller roasting plants. With this roaster, Probat continues the shop roaster tradition of their L-Series. Probatissimo Probat's Probatissimo provides utmost...

Cooking Up Lunch Business.
April 1, 2001... With Soups and Sandwiches The camera zooms in on Colleen Wolner dicing red potatoes for her Roasted Potato Garlic Soup, a big seller at her Blue Heron Coffeehouse in Winona, Minn. Soon viewers of the local cable cooking show see a piping...

Serving Coffee, Creating Community.
April 1, 2001... Anodyne @ 43rd coffeehouse in Minneapolis beats to its own drum, deviating its menu and appearance from status quo. Since Anodyne @ 43rd opened its doors four years ago in south Minneapolis, it's been featured in magazines and customers...

The COMPANY You Keep.
April 1, 2001... Finding and keeping great employees is at the forefront of every roaster and retailer's agenda. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters and Coffee By Design not only have it on their agendas, but check it off their list daily. Human. Resources. The...

Internet Credit Slips and Falls.
April 1, 2001... Beware of the costly perils of Internet charge card sales by arming yourself with good information and research. "Today about nine percent of all Internet credit card merchants are extensions of brick-and-mortar retailers," says Biff...

Scheduling the Troops.
April 1, 2001... When it comes to employee scheduling, retailers have differing opinions on what works best. Specialty coffee retailers' scheduling problems come in all shapes and sizes. Some retailers struggle to keep payroll within a reasonable...

Easy Organic Muffins.
April 1, 2001... Oven Ready Foods introduces the first certified-organic pre-deposited muffins line in the industry. The new line is part of the company's Blue Sky Muffins brand and consists of four flavors: Beaver Creek Blueberry, Strawberry Fields, Bozeman...

Honey Creme Like Mom's Apple Pie.
April 1, 2001... Honey Acres new Apple-Cinnamon Honey Creme spread is designed to taste just like apple pie. The whipped honey can he spread on toast, muffins or bagels, or to top ice cream or pancakes. It can also be used as the honey ingredient in pastries,...

Roast as Art.
April 1, 2001... Bellissimo Coffee InfoGroup has added a new video to its collection of instructional materials. The video, The Art of the Roast, is produced by Primary Productions, Inc., and exclusively distributed by Bellissimo. The video, shot on location at...

Biscotti With Wine.
April 1, 2001... Two Dishes Gourmet Foods now has a unique way to enjoy the classic Italian taste of wine. The company's Biscotti di Vino (Wine Biscuits) are sweet Italian cookies made with five simple ingredients, including wine. The versatile biscotti can be...

Cordless Hot Pot.
April 1, 2001... The Chef'sChoice@ Cordless Electric Hot Pot [TM] Model 675 is designed to quickly boil water for tea, coffee, hot chocolate or instant soup. It has a 1500-wart heating element that is enclosed below the stainless floor of the Hot Pot so there...

New Sign Options From Mainstreet.
April 1, 2001... Mainstreet Menu Systems continues to offer retailers new in-store sign and menu tools with the latest additions to its line. The Eclipse, an illuminated lightbox with a convex shape, is engineered to maximize wall space while providing a sleek,...

Refrigerated Food Cases and Fixtures.
April 1, 2001... Since 1978 Millrock has been a leader in retail design and manufacture of store fixtures, specializing in cafes, kiosks, food service, gourmet, and natural foods stores. Millrock manufactures many models of refrigerated showcases for pastry,...

First-Ever Copper CHANTAL.
April 1, 2001... CHANTAL introduces its first-ever copper piece: the new Copper 2- 1/2 Quart Classic Teakettle. The copperplate-over-stainless-steel teakettle was designed to give consumers another color choice in one of the kitchen's most visible accessory. In...

Offer Your Customers Strong Bones.
April 1, 2001... Hena, Inc., has introduced the first-ever coffee with added calcium. The coffee is available in a 2-pound retail bag and a 2-ounce pot pack that is perfect for foodservice and office coffee service. It is also available in regular and naturally...

The Ultimate in All-Natural.
April 1, 2001... Hillary's [TM] manufactures all-natural gourmet baking mixes using only "scratch" ingredients free of additives, preservatives or food dyes. The mixes are available in six kosher-certified varieties: Favorite Brownie Mix, Golden Corn Meal...

Take Your Business Anywhere.
April 1, 2001... Lakeside's new Mart Cart is designed to bring coffee and foodservice to locations like hospitals, office lobbies, employee break areas, retail malls, stadiums, convention centers, health clubs and other high-traffic areas. The cart is mounted...

A Swift Grinder.
April 1, 2001... La Marzocco's award-winning Swift Espresso Preparation System (EPS) grinds, doses, and tamps perfect shots of espresso. Extensive testing in the field has shown that the fully-automatic Swift EPS lessens barista training time, reduces wasted...

Full Line of Tea.
April 1, 2001... Numi, L.L.C., a tea company based in Oakland, Calif., offers a complete line of full-leaf teas, including several black and green teas, six herbal Teasans (contain no added oils or flavorings) and five Fruiteas from around the world. A bamboo...

Make Winter Drinks Special.
April 1, 2001... Da Vinci Gourmet's English Toffee Flavored Syrup is modeled after the popular English confection and combines the flavors of real butter, roasted almonds, molasses and caramel. The flavor, produced in response to customer demand, lends itself...

Modular Brewing at Two Voltages.
April 1, 2001... Hamilton Beach Commercial now offers an exciting addition to its modular brewing system line: the SA250) Dual Voltage Brew Head. The SA250 is an automatic brew head with hot water faucet that offers the flexibility of accommodating 120V, 208V...

New Dark Roast.
April 1, 2001... S&D Coffee, Inc., introduces a new dark roast coffee blend named Dark Sky Cafe(tm). The blend combines the acidity of Latin American beans from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Brazil with the earthy flavor of Indonesian beans to produce a...

New Cappuccinos.
April 1, 2001... Green Mountain Coffee, Inc. has followed the success of its Monte verde[TM] brand semi-frozen granita products with the introduction of five new flavors of hot cappuccino to the line. The flavors, which include Original Cappuccino, Hot...

Chunky Cookies.
April 1, 2001... As Cookie It Up! enters its third year selling to U.S. retailers, the company has added two new varieties to its current line. Flavors include: Ginger, Everything But the Kitchen Sink (raisins, oatmeal, milk chocolate chips and walnuts), Peanut...

Infant Seat Makes Dining Easy.
April 1, 2001... Koala Corporation introduces the Infant Seat Kradle for parents who carry their infants in car seats/infant carriers. The Kradle provides a place for car seats to rest while parents are dining, relieving the parent from the inconvenience of...

Fair Trade in a Box.
April 1, 2001... Sustainable Harvest now offers micro-roasters Certified Organic (Quality Assurance International) and Certified Fair Trade (TransfairUSA) coffees in convenient 50-pound boxes. For more information, visit the Sustainable Harvest Web site at...

Designer Sugar Packets.
April 1, 2001... Sugart Group (USA) Ltd. introduces a new concept in sugar packets: Sugart Designer Sugar Packets. The new packets use the European-style stick form and combine it with artful packaging. The sugar packets come in three designs: Fashion...

As Little as 1 Cent More Per Cup.
April 1, 2001... F. Gavina & Sons, Inc.'s portion packs brew rich-tasting flavors, varietals and decafs with the strength you desire, at prices you can live with. Serve Estate Coffees roasted by real coffee people. Ask for a sample of these coffees in their new...

Chemical-Resistant Bean Dispenser.
April 1, 2001... Eastman produces a coffee bean dispenser made from Spectar copolymer. This high-clarity resin is frequently used for point-of-purchase displays that require chemical resistance and toughness. Eastman also offers design consultation to help turn...

Restyled Mach Boasts New Look.
April 1, 2001... Elmeco has updated its Mach horizontal delivery slush machine, keeping it up-to-date and ready for the 21st century. The restyling makes use of a completely new design to improve the machine's appearance. In addition, Elmeco has simplified the...