An agtech company bext360 is envisioning updating the coffee industry in a unique way – reports Forbes.com. The decade old ways coffee farmers still use to get paid for their harvest are about to change. Coffee farmers in Africa and South America shall be benefitting soon getting paid right away using the digital technology. Behind the software is blockchain technology
Month: September 2017
How do Cafes Use Social Media to Stand Out From the Crowd?
How do cafes use social media to stand out from the crowd if everyone is posting about coffee? The Cat and Cloud podcast touched on some of the issues related to cafes and social media. They raise the point that in some cases the image a cafe projects of itself online is not necessarily the same as what you would experience in
Fipe: 39 Million Italians Ate Out in 2016
Italians eat out more and more often, with dining out now accounting for over one-third of families’ food expenditure, about 35%, equal to € 75 billion. The figures emerging from a study entitled “Catering, luxury and territory: Drivers of the Italian way of living” (promoted by HostMilano and conducted by Magda Antonioli Corigliano, head of the Master’s Programme in the Economics of
Coffee Sales Tax Suit Against Dunkin’ Donuts Called Off by the Court
First week of June 2017, Dunkin’ Brands, Inc. was released of the law suit filed against them in the 2nd Circuit which affirmed the District Court’s adjournment reports Forbes.com. The charges were piled up against them by Thomas Estler, Blake Ruehrwein, and Steven Park who claimed “that they had wrongfully been charged sales tax in violation of New York state
A Vietnamese Coffee Experience in Berlin: Maison Han in Kreuzberg
According to sprudge.com, the owner and the founder of Maison Han, Duc Nguyen, did not grow up in Vietnam, but is so tied to his roots that he enjoys making Vietnamese coffee closer to Berliners. As a great coffee lover, Duc has also founded Han Coffee Roasters before Maison Han, in order to improve the status of Vietnamese coffee beans in
The New Vocabulary of Coffee
Brewing and cold brewing, Ibrik, Dripper, Aeropress and Specialty. In Italy in recent years coffee has ceased to be synonymous with only espresso or cappuccino, and its vocabulary has become enriched in ways we couldn’t have previously imagined, so it befalls SIC to do no less than show off the precious coffee bean in all its global forms and variants.
How to Decide for the Right Social Media Channel for your Coffee Business
Have you chosen to be present on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram because you thought you have to have an account on all those platforms? Or maybe even because other businesses out there also have accounts and pages there, too? The thing is, it is NOT about the best social network or the one that promises to give you tons of fans & followers. But it’s
The Kaffikaze Coffee Festival is Coming
The Kaffikaze Coffee Festival is being organized by Kaffikaze, the agency which has been organizing various competitions in Norway. This festival will take place at the Vulkan Arena in Oslo, the capital of great coffee hubs and the top quality coffee with the Scandinavian light roast style, on the 30th September 2017 and it is the first coffee festival there, with the
The Second Ernesto llly International Coffee Awards
Ernesto llly International Coffee Awards program is designed to celebrate producer partners in Illy’s trade network and it was named after Ernesto Illy, who created this program 27 years ago in Brazil. The idea was not only to give prizes to the growers who could reach the quality needed for the perfect coffee flavor, but also to educate them. The
Coffee Machines: “Made in Italy” Production up 4.7% in 2017
At HostMilano 2017, the vitality of the sector is confirmed by the latest data from UCIMAC, the organisation representing Espresso Coffee Machine Manufacturers and member of ANIMA-Assofoodtec. In Italy, the “Espresso coffee machine” industry reported a turnover of 445 million Euros in 2016 with a 4.7% increase due in large part to the foreign market, and an almost similar outlook