Specialty Coffee Retailer articles from August 2001

Specialty Coffee Retailer archives from August 2001

EDITOR'S NOTE.
August 1, 2001... Each year, I put out a call for readers to nominate themselves as candidates for our monthly coffeehouse profile section. And each year, I contact most all nominees to either profile their stores or to use them as a source for feature stories...

Guatemalan Cup of Excellence Auction Successful.
August 1, 2001... The 15 winning Cup of Excellence coffees from Guatemala were auctioned off in June via the Internet. The four-hour auction was unique in that it was not a time close as previous auctions have been. Hewlett Packard Laboratories, acting as...

Timothy's Gives Back.
August 1, 2001... Toronto-based Timothy's World Coffee has committed $11,500 to the Colombian coffee-growing community of San Lorenzo as part of the new Relationship Coffee Program established with the Colombian Coffee Federation. Last year, Timothy's...

Green Mountain Acquires Frontier Organic.
August 1, 2001... Green Mountain Coffee, Inc., Waterbury, Vt., recently acquired Frontier Organic Coffee[TM] from Frontier Natural Products Co-op of Norway, Iowa. Green Mountain purchased the Frontier Organic Coffee brand, trade information and various...

Michaelo Espresso Helps Rebuild.
August 1, 2001... Seattle-based Michaelo Espresso, a full-service espresso equipment company, teamed with a group of youth volunteers from Holy Name and O'Dea high schools in the Seattle area to complete household repairs and yard work for an in-need elderly...

INDUSTRY VOICES.
August 1, 2001... 1. Social responsibility and environmental commitment seem to be the foundation for Green Mountain's success. What are Green Mountain's latest achievements in these two areas? Some of our recent achievements in these areas include the...

Female Retail STARS.
August 1, 2001... Meet six women with a passion to succeed in the competitive world of specialty coffee retailing. This is a story about women and their passions. Don't be embarrassed. The women are specialty coffee retailers and their passions are...

Serving supplies.
August 1, 2001... Behind every great cup of coffee is quality serving equipment, and there are plenty of new products to consider. A bad cup of coffee does not always come from bad coffee beans. A lot of muddy mugs begin with freshly ground beans but,...

RETAIL GIFTS & GADGETS.
August 1, 2001... Don't overlook the power of gifts and gadgets on your shelves. The impulse items make it easy to "supersize" a drink order. "I'd like an espresso and an English bone china teapot, please." Don't laugh. Customers buy, and not only...

GIFT COVER-UPS.
August 1, 2001... Packaging not only sells gifts, but can make a bold statement about a retail operation. Let's face it. Specialty coffee retailers are in a very competitive business. In the case of many retailers who try to increase sales by merchandising...

A Historic Blend.
August 1, 2001... Bill and Regina Calvert's historic roastery/cafe in tourist-town Galena, Ill., offers its customers a unique experience and one of the best cappuccinos in the country. A steam whistle sounds its high mournful tune in Galena, Ill., once a...

The Ups and Downs of Drive-Throughs.
August 1, 2001... Drive-through owners across the United States share advice on opening a drive-through operation. Drive-through coffee bars are appealing to many entrepreneurs for a variety of reasons: drive-throughs typically have a lower overhead than a...

Keep Site Selection Under Wraps.
August 1, 2001... Asking customers a simple question saves time and money for Kim Aaberg, owner of the Bean Counter in Buffalo, Wyo., a town of 3,500 people that is located two and a half hours south of Billings, Mont. Often, a car with several passengers...

Don't Skimp on Furnishings, Equipment.
August 1, 2001... Another owner pleased with business these days is Sandy Seright, owner of Ranch and Home Ace Hardware and Mugsy's Espresso, both in Post Falls, Idaho. About eight years ago, Seright began renting space in his hardware store's parking lot to a...

Beware of Used Equipment.
August 1, 2001... Shayne Daley, owner of Cuppa Joe, Traverse City, Mich., has a creative idea to serve his customers more quickly during the morning rush hour. Daley operates his store out of what used to be a drive-through banking facility. He has an...

Expand Product Offerings Carefully.
August 1, 2001... Sandy De Mille's drive-through, Coffee Hut in Sudbury, Mass, is located in an old Fotomat store, directly in front of a supermarket, with a shopping plaza on the other side of the street. She and her husband tried to expand to a nearby town,...

Snagged by City Ordinances.
August 1, 2001... Major markets are not the only places there's money to be made. Kim Vollender co-owns Wild Awakenings, a drive-through on the outskirts of Grand Junction, Colo., with her mother, Nancy Adams. Vollender and Adams have had their store open...

Capitalizing on an Existing Business.
August 1, 2001... One state south of Vollender and Adams, two other women are succeeding in the coffee industry, capitalizing on their previous experience as discriminating customers. Cecilia Gonzalez is co-owner of Hava Java in Santa Fe, N.M. Her partner,...

Keep the Menu Simple.
August 1, 2001... Simplicity is often important in the world of design, but it is also critical in serving drive-through customers, according to Suzannah Ludlow, co-owner of Expresso Coffee, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Ludlow says Expresso Coffee serves between 500 and...

Small Town, Small Business.
August 1, 2001... For every drive-through that found success early on, there is another one that took a while for profits to percolate. Barbara Hinton has owned Espressolly for You, a drive-through in Monroe, La., for seven years. She had done well selling...