Specialty Coffee Retailer articles from November 2002

Specialty Coffee Retailer archives from November 2002

A perfect promotion. (Editor's Note).
November 1, 2002... JP's Coffee & Espresso Bar in Holland, Mich., hit a grand slam with its recent promotion, "Taste the Difference." On Sat., Sept. 28, JP's invited its community members to bring in a bag or can of coffee from home, anything from Folgers to...

Jitters goes to Japan. (Brew News).
November 1, 2002... Jitters Gourmet Coffee, Las Vegas, has entered into an agreement with Toshin Co., Ltd., Nogoya, Japan, to open coffee cafes in Japan. The development plan called for the first cafe to open in Nagoya City on Sept. 14, with five to eight...

Peets Coffee now in whole foods. (Brew News).
November 1, 2002... Emeryville, Calif.-based Peet's Coffee & Tea, Inc., announced that its coffee would be available on the shelves of the Pacific Northwest region Whole Foods Markets, the world's leading natural and organic foods supermarket. "We are...

Tea Expo debuts. (Brew News).
November 1, 2002... SFG Group, LLC, Las Vegas, has announced that the company will launch the inaugural "Take Me 2 Tea Expo" in Las Vegas in the spring of 2003. The event will include both an exhibition and a conference, and will take place March 16-18. "This...

Tazo helps Tea producers. (Brew News).
November 1, 2002... Tazo Tea Company, Portland, Ore., and Mercy Corps have partnered to support community development in India. The project, called Collaboration for Hope and Advancement in India (CHAI); will take a proactive approach to building strong...

A multi-purpose franchise. (Brew News).
November 1, 2002... The Washoe Arc, a Rena, Nev.-based support group for individuals with mental disabilities, seeks to fully integrate those individuals into the community. "Not long ago, no programs for Americans with mental retardation existed out of the school...

Industry voices.
November 1, 2002... Karen Gordon, director of specialty green coffee Coffee Holding Company, Inc. Brooklyn, N.Y. www.coffeeholding.com Q: How did you become a green coffee dealer? I was setting up cupping tables for my dad at 10 years old. It was...

Cocoa's comeback: Exploring the numerous possibilities of the coffeehouse's other bean.
November 1, 2002... Every winter, my mother made wonderful hot chocolate for her family to enjoy while they braved the frigid Minnesota weather skiing, skating, or--long before the weather-controlled Dome was built--watching a Vikings football game. The tall,...

Coffee without the kick: Retailers would do well to respect the decaf consumer's tastes.
November 1, 2002... Since its development 100 years ago, decaffeinated coffee has been the poor stepchild of the coffee business. The problem has been that for so long the decaffeinated coffees on the market really did not taste very good. Ironically, the factor...

Space planning with the pros: Industry design professionals share ideas for successful store design and layout planning.
November 1, 2002... Layout and design concerns for the coffee bar/house/kiosk are many, and every mistake or wrong step can be costly, further eroding what for many is a limited budget for build-out. Yet most mistakes can be avoided by doing some homework before...

Daring to be different: In a market that's less than friendly to the independent, these retailers got creative--and succeeded.
November 1, 2002... Just because something's never been done before doesn't mean it can't be. Innovation, of course, is what industry thrives upon, and specialty coffee retailing may in fact lend itself well to whatever is new and different--or in some cases, very...

Pricing strategies: Retailers weigh in with strategies for assigning prices to menu items and raising them. (Regional Update).
November 1, 2002... Pricing coffee and espresso drinks is more about checking the competition than calculating a cost ratio for many retailers. Some retailers price coffee according to what it costs to make a pot or figure 10 times the cost of ingredients for the...

Special report: Disaster planning are you prepared for the worst?
November 1, 2002... For a coffee retailer, Don Reynolds sure knows a lot about hurricanes--or, at least how to prepare for them. That's because in less than four years Reynolds, CEO of Port City Java, Inc., in Wilmington, N.C., had to contend with Bertha, Fran and...