Data Intelligence for the coffee industry
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
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
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.
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
In the last couple of decades, coffee industry has evolved significantly, therefore, local restaurants cannot serve standard cups of coffee and have to differentiate themselves from their competitors. Here’s a guide on how to turn your business into a profit generator.
First of all, you have to decide on what wish to offer. Whether it is a range of flavored Americano drinks or milk-based coffees, the right coffee machine will help to intensify or, on the contrary, diminish the real taste of your drink. [Sign in to continue]
I wrote about how Starbucks was trying something new in Japan, ‘Neighborhood and Coffee’ stores which had less obvious Starbucks branding, and were more focused on becoming the local neighbourhood coffee shop. Now, again in Japan, the company is trying something new. Its latest outlet in Kyoto, opened on 30th June, is inside a 100 year-old Japanese townhouse, complete with