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Are Coffee Shops going to scrap free wifi in order to avoid the use of laptops in their cafes? According to The Guardian, it is what it is happening in different coffee shops all over the world. Dough Lover, Brighton’s coffee shop, has put a clear sign on its door: “This is a laptop free zone”. The reason? Customers seem
The sharing economy is growing rapidly and opening up new possibilities. People no longer need to own a vacation home, car or power drill. They can instead rent the item they need, when they need it, through the Internet. People are also turning to the sharing economy to find new sources of income, working as independent contractors offering city tours
Costa Coffee declared a decline in its sales of 1.5%, relating to the third quarter of 2017, as reported by the Guardian. However it is still one of the most important coffee chains in the UK. The Company was created in 1971 by two Italian immigrants who, in 1995, sold the business to Whitbread. Costa Coffee can now claim more
“Sharing economy” attracts millions of enthusiastic users as well as strong critics. It goes by many names, including the matching economy, collaborative consumption, on demand economy, peer to peer economy, 1099 economy, gig economy, access economy and locust economy. On one side it represents a new way to exchange what we already have, on the other side it bothers some
The Coffee Board of India, the Indian organization which promotes coffee production in the country, is managing to expand and revive Indian Coffee Houses and private players. According to Business Standard, the Indian organization aims to increase coffee consumption by opening 75 full-service coffee houses. The Board is ready to achieve this goal by partnering with private sector operators, in
On International Women’s Day, the International Coffee Organization is celebrating the role of women in the coffee industry. Indeed, in Brazil or Burundi, Cameroon or Colombia, India or Indonesia, women are playing an increasingly active role in the coffee value chain. Women represent 43% of the labour force in agriculture, playing important roles as farmers, labourers and entrepreneurs, according to
Dunkin’ Donuts is proposing a new type of coffee which tastes like Girl Scout cookies. The coffee flavours are inspired by three Girl Scout cookies: Thin Mints, Coconut, and Caramel and Peanut Butter. As reported by The Independent, these coffee flavours are served with cookies in frozen and hot coffee, machitos, lattes or iced coffee. Eleonora PaceCoffee drinker, content manager,
Ennio Cantergiani, CoffeeBI’s Opinion Leader and owner of L’Academie du Café in Geneva, Switzerland, started his career by analysing the molecules responsible for the most important off-flavours in green coffees. Today, he is a trainer (AST) for several modules of the SCA program (Barista, Brewing and Roasting). We asked him for some secrets on quality in coffee. More and more
A few coffee shops, diners & restaurants go on to be household names around the world, but they all have one thing in common, they all started by opening their first store. First, they get amazing at what they do while becoming profitable, renowned, loved and recommended to others by their guests. Eventually, they become a local institution, famous locally,
In the UK, 35 Starbucks branches will be the first coffee shops to trial a fee of 5p on disposable cups, a so-called “latte levy”, which aims to reduce the waste of coffee cups, as reported by the The Guardian: Consumers will have the opportunity to drink coffee using a ceramic cup offered by the store or to use their own