Specialty Coffee Retailer articles from January 2001

Specialty Coffee Retailer archives from January 2001

New Year, New Look.
January 1, 2001... Just by looking at the cover, you've probably noticed something is different with this issue of Specialty Coffee Retailer. Starting with the new year, we're welcoming in a newly designed magazine. The new design is not just a pretty face. It's...

Sintercafe Cup Winners Announced.
January 1, 2001... The winners of the 2000 Sintercafe Cup competition have been announced. They are as follows: 1st Place, Doka Estate, The Coffee Source; 2nd Place, Manigordo, Cia. Continental; 3rd Place, San Antonio Tres Rios Patio Dried, The Coffee Source. ...

Green Mountain Moves Into C-stores.
January 1, 2001... Green Mountain Coffee, Inc., Waterbury, Vt., announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc., signed a five-year exclusive agreement to supply coffee to more than 900 ExxonMobil Corporation convenience stores in...

Humboldt Bay Coffee Expands Production Capability.
January 1, 2001... Eureka, Calif.-based Humboldt Bay Coffee Company recently completed the expansion of its wholesale facilities. The company leased three adjacent warehouse spaces within walking distance of its retail store. The new space now houses a 55-pound...

Starbucks Awards Parks Improvement Grants.
January 1, 2001... As part of a commitment to give $100,000 to Seattle's neighborhood parks, Starbucks' president and CEO, Orin Smith, announced in November the first five recipients of $10,000 grants. Through its Neighborhood Park Grants program, Starbucks plans...

Prairie City Bakery Named to the Inc. 500.
January 1, 2001... Prairie City Bakery, Vernon Hills, III., has been named one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States by Inc. Magazine. The Inc. 500 was published on Oct. 17, and is an exclusive report on up-and-coming companies that are...

Michaelo Servicing Warehouse Stores.
January 1, 2001... Seattle-based Michaelo Espresso is now installing Cafina c60 superautomatic espresso machines at select Costco stores across the United States, and at QFC supermarkets in the Puget Sounds area. Customers at more than 100 Costco warehouse...

Tully's Goes Wireless.
January 1, 2001... The Tully's Coffee retail outlet in Factoria, Wash., is testing an innovative wireless service, moBop. The service is designed to allow customers to order and pay for coffee and pastries with an Internet-enabled mobile phone. In conjunction...

Tully's Acquires Additional Stores, Partners With Larry's.
January 1, 2001... Seattle-based Tully's Coffee acquired two additional Coffee Station stores in Los Angeles and Seattle. The acquisition brings the company's total number of stores in Los Angeles to four, and in November it announced plans to open an additional...

Caffe Luca Rapidly Entering Shop-Rite Chain.
January 1, 2001... Caffe Luca of America, Inc., Seattle, recently struck a deal with Ken Capano, owner of dozens of ShopRite(r) franchises in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York, to install fullscale Caffe Luca coffee shops in at least one Shop-Rite store a...

Stearns & Lehman to Acquire Division of Bunge.
January 1, 2001... Stearns & Lehman, Inc., Mansfield, Ohio, announced in November that it signed a letter of intent to purchase the Foodservice Syrups and Toppings business from Bunge Foods Group. This move is expected to broaden the diversity of Stearns &...

Beaner's Heads Northwest.
January 1, 2001... Beaner's Gourmet Coffee, Lansing, Mich., signed an agreement to open franchise locations in Northwest Indiana. The company chose to partner with Mike Zimmer, a former cable television executive who lives in Crown Point, Ind., to begin a...

INDUSTRY NEWS.
January 1, 2001... ChuckJones, V.P. As a coffee grower, what is your biggest business challenge right now? The main challenges, and we share these with most farmers, are weather and disease. When the yield is compromised by adverse weather conditions,...

EXPERIMENTING with flavor.
January 1, 2001... BEVERAGE FLAVORING SYRUPS CAN TURN A HO-HUM MENU INTO SOMETHING THAT REALLY RINGS AT THE REGISTER. There are many of us in the specialty coffee business that cringe when they hear "flavorings" and coffee mentioned in the same breath, much...

The Baked Goods Dilemma.
January 1, 2001... Deciding on a baked goods program -- from-scratch, par-baked or fully baked -- can be daunting. Each option has its pros, cons and financial consequences. Specialty coffee retailers often choose to sell baked goods along with their...

POS Solutions for Small Business.
January 1, 2001... Point-of-sale system manufacturers have listened to the needs of smaller retailers and have created systems that deliver. Annette Gorospe and Bob Duha both think they are in heaven. Gorospe may be able to make a better case for it. As...

Bye-Bye Boring Baked Goods.
January 1, 2001... Muffins, bagels and scones are unquestionably staples in the coffeehouse, but almost every coffeehouse carries them. Make your store worth the trip by offering some out-of-the-ordinary baked goods. A certain friend of mine-middle-aged and...

BUILDING a Profitable Web Site.
January 1, 2001... So you joined the gold rush to the World Wide Web only to strike fool's gold? You are not alone. Many a retailer has sunk a pickax into the wild, wild Internet only to wish he hadn't. By following some key marketing principles unique...

Campus coffee.
January 1, 2001... When Marian College set out to build an on-campus coffeehouse, its goal was to provide a hands-on learning lab for students and an inviting venue for activities and discourse. The college got that and much more. Situated in the middle of...

Red Hot Syrup from Da Vinci.
January 1, 2001... Da Vinci Gourmet introduces its Classic Red Hot Cinnamon Flavored Syrup. Developed specifically to celebrate the passion of Valentine's Day, the syrup is brilliant red in hue, and delivers the taste of spicy sweet cinnamon candy to lattes,...

Get Your Soap From a Goat.
January 1, 2001... Chestnut & Bay Natural Soaps Et Essentials, LLC, now has a 100-percent all-natural goat milk soap line. The goat milk comes from Chestnut Et Bay's own dairy herd and has no hormones, antibiotics or milk production enhancers. The line includes:...

Harry Potter Candy Released.
January 1, 2001... CAP Candy has gained the licensing rights to manufacture a line of interactive candy featuring the characters and adventures from literary phenomenon, Harry Potter. The first release from CAP will be Bernie Bott's Every Flavored Beans, a candy...

Let Them Eat Danish.
January 1, 2001... Schulstad USA introduces a European pastry unlike anything American Danish lovers have ever seen or tasted. The company's Lemon Creme Fan is a fan-shaped Danish pastry, that has an intense, but light, lemon flavor. It is filled with lemon creme...

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

Cordless Hot Pot.
January 1, 2001... The Chef'sChoice [R] 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-watt heating element that is enclosed below the stainless floor of the Hot Pot so...

Cappuccino Candles.
January 1, 2001... Penco Industries, Inc., offers a line of hand-poured, scented candles that includes cappuccino-scented candles. The candles are available in 26-ounce and 16-ounce jars, votive, a set of four floating candles, and 3-by-3, 3-by-6 and 3-by-9...

Biscotti With Wine.
January 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...

The Ultimate in All-Natural.
January 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...

Retailers across the United States and Canada share what they're doing on the Web.
January 1, 2001... Since the World Wide Web became an object of widespread interest in the early '90s, many specialty coffee retailers have been eager to join the rush, viewing the Web as the next frontier, and a source of steady new revenues. Whether or not...