Specialty Coffee Retailer articles from October 2004

Specialty Coffee Retailer archives from October 2004

Tree to cup to consumer.(Editor's Note)
October 1, 2004... We came across it a couple years ago while visiting friends in the Northeast: an early 19th-century house in a historic town, with a classic wooden sign out front proclaiming it to be a coffeehouse. Everything was perfect: the flowers on the...

Coffee for the Democratic National Convention.(Brew News)
October 1, 2004... Gift bags for the Democratic National Convention contained coffee from Urban Legends. The online specialty beverage marketplace is based in North Carolina, the home state to vice presidential candidate John Edwards. Urban Legends contributed...

Into the Fastest 50.(Brew News)
October 1, 2004... Coffee Fest Trade Shows were named to Trade Show Week's Fastest 50 this year. Trade shows that were eligible to be considered for the Fastest 50 competition by Trade Show Week magazine had to have been produced in 2001 through 2003 and the main...

Setting a standard for fair trade.(Brew News)
October 1, 2004... Four of the world's largest coffee companies agreed to a voluntary code, called the Common Code for the Coffee Community, that will work to improve the conditions and environments for coffee farmers and their workers. The CCCC was designed to...

ESI acquired by Swiss company.(Brew News)
October 1, 2004... Taking an important step to become the world's No. 1 supplier of professional espresso equipment, Aarburg, Switzerland-based Franke Coffee Systems acquired its top-selling importer, Espresso Specialists, Inc., of Seattle. Although the terms of...

Coffee companies that educate.(Brew News)
October 1, 2004... New Orleans Coffee Works, Armenia Coffee and Gillies Coffee Company are the latest corporate donors for the Cups for Education organization. The CFE sponsors a teacher for the Solidarity School in the community of Los Alpes in Jinotega,...

Coffee auction in El Salvador.(Brew News)
October 1, 2004... Created by the Alliance for Coffee Excellence, the Cup of Excellence[R] is a nationwide tasting event designed to identify, promote and increase earnings for quality coffee. El Salvador hosted its second annual countrywide Cup of Excellence[R]...

Our apologies.(Brew News)(Correction Notice)
October 1, 2004... In the August 2004 article, "Machine Age," Doug Pratt of Michaelo Espresso was quoted as saying. "The only two machines that will take a 45 millimeter pod are the Unic, captive to Illy, and the San Marco, which we have." Pratt actually reported...

Colombian coffee warms print ads.(Brew News)
October 1, 2004... A print ad featuring a new generation of coffee drinkers is the new advertising campaign for The National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia. By venturing into a new type of ad, the Federation will target audiences between 18 and 34 years...

A political cuppa joe.(Brew News)
October 1, 2004... A subsidiary of Seattle-base Rushmore Enterprises, Political Grounds Coffee, has released a new line of coffee that is designed to bring the humor of today's political world right to the coffee cup. These coffees were distributed to delegates...

Pleasures in cookies: cookies, calories and the sales in between.(Cover Story)
October 1, 2004... Images like sitting in mom's kitchen, after-school play dates and mixing cookie dough from scratch rush to mind when encountering the smell of fresh-baked cookies--a scent that you can almost taste--in the air. It seems that chocolate chip...

Training the front line: the last link in the chain between your coffee and your customer is your barista--training matters.
October 1, 2004... When Jared Mockli first began working as a barista, he thought he was doing a pretty good job dosing, tamping, pulling and steaming. In fact, for about a year, he believed his espresso-making technique was some pretty hot stuff. Then, he...

A clean machine.
October 1, 2004... Most coffeehouse owners and employees don't have a problem remembering to wash their hands regularly, but when it comes to keeping their equipment clean, they are the first to admit negligence. Take a look at the average coffee server or...

Bean counters: today's POS systems simplify not only order-taking, but also day-to-day shop management.
October 1, 2004... Ask any coffeehouse owner what he or she loves most about owning a coffeehouse and you probably won't hear anything about counting how many 16-oz. cups are left, scheduling employee shifts or computing hourly sales. Yet, along with creating...

Oolong tea: a primer.
October 1, 2004... According to the Tea Association of the U.S.A., in 2003 about 87 percent of the tea consumed by Americans was black tea, another 12.5 percent was green tea and the remaining, less than 1 percent, was oolong. In fact, black tea has been the most...

Coffee Fest Seattle schedule: Coffee Fest Seattle training sessions.(Calendar)
October 1, 2004... FRIDAY October 15, 2004 Special Attractions * 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Millrock Latte Art Competition presented by Tea & Coffee Trade Journal 8:30-10:55 a.m. Roasting Workshop 9:00-10:30 a.m. Hands on Smoothie...

Coffee Fest Seattle exhibitors (list current as of September 7, 2004).
October 1, 2004... Coffee Fest Seattle Exhibitors (List current as of September 7, 2004) COMPANY BOOTH # Acacia Funding Inc 629 Adore Espresso ...

Coffee Fest Seattle product preview: here are just some of the many products you will find at Coffee Fest Seattle 2004.
October 1, 2004... BOOTH NO. 723-822 Ambex, Inc. 1947 Drew St. Clearwater, FL 33765 Contact: Terry Davis Phone: (727) 442-2727 New from Ambex, the Profile DCQ and Profile Plus DCQ Roast profile data-logging and automation system. The...

Bean packaging.(Regional Update)
October 1, 2004... In some industries, packaging ranks somewhere down the list of a retailer's concerns. No one is too worried about the box a computer comes in, for example. Clearly, though, a specialty coffee retailer's choice of bean packaging can have a...