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Madcap Opens a Retail Location at Grand Rapids Downtown Market

Madcap Coffee, the Michigan based coffee roasting company has opened its second retail location with the open-concept round  bar in the Grand Rapids Downtown Market , report Daily Coffee News. While talking to Daily Coffee News, the CEO of Madcap, Trevor Corlett said Madcap will continue to build retail spaces that will be attached to its production roastery. He said ...
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Boosting your Coffee Shop: 2 Stories of Innovation

This is hardly breaking news: Survival in the increasingly crowded and competitive coffee marketplace is hard, very hard. In a world of strong international chains and franchises, the average street corner coffee shop wages a daily battle to nibble at new parts of market. However, opening a new bar is the dream of many, but is there still place left ...
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Five “B” Plans for Coffee Shops

They say things always come in three's; so when the coffee machine, dishwasher and high-speed oven decided to stop working in the week before Christmas, the good news is that we had all bases covered. What are your emergency plans? In the past, any one of these issues could have sent us into a tailspin, but strangely enough, even though ...
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Russian Coffee Chain Opens its First Restaurant in New York

On December 17 Russian restaurant chain Coffeemania opened its first restaurant in New York City. The restaurant is located in Bryant Park, one of the busiest Manhattan districts, and can host up to 105 guests. The design was created by a French company GBRH Design. Titus Wang became the chef in this new place. He created a menu that combines ...

Kenyan Coffee Farmers Menaced by Organized Robberies

Following a continued series of theft cases, Kenyan farmers have started to wonder if they should continue with what used to be their “life-line”: growing coffee, as reported by theguardian. News sources have traced theft cases back to 2010, and they have continued over the following six years to present day. (businessdailyafrica). It’s not just a matter of the coffee, ...
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Starbucks Opens Two More Coffee Shops in Medellín

Starbucks has opened two additional shops in Medellín, reports Medelin Living. The shops are located in the Santafé mall in El Poblado and Oviedo mall in El Poblado. The shops were opened on December 14 and December 19 2016 respectively. This comes 4 months after it opened its first store in Medellín on September 1, 2016. According to the news ...
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Russian Oil Company Opens a Coffee Shop Chain in Moscow

Rosneft, the leader of Russian petroleum industry, has partnered with HMSHost International (Autogrill subsidiary) to open Italian cafés at its gas stations. Acafé chain will include 5 places with prospects for further development in Moscow and other regions. This is not the first time Rosneft cooperates with Autogrill. In 2014 Rosneft opened 8 Acafés at its retail sites during Winter ...
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SCAA/SCAE Merge to Form Specialty Coffee Association

The Specialty Coffee Association of America and Specialty Coffee Association of Europe have announced their new name, Specialty Coffee Association (SCA), after last year’s vote to merge both organizations. The announcement on the website states “As of January 2017, the Specialty Coffee Association of America, established in 1982, and the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe, established in 1998, have officially ...
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Engaging Your Customers with Social Media (Part 1)

How to choose the right social networks for your coffee shop business For the next couple weeks, I want to cover a topic, that all of you are dealing within your coffee shop businesses a lot sooner or later: Social Media or the Social Networks and how to use them for your coffee shop businesses. It’s a series containing 3 ...
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Yaounde-Cameroon: The 2nd Scientific Conference on African Coffee

The Inter African Coffee Organisation (IACO) held its 56th Annual General Assembly in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon on November 28 to December 3rd 2016. The theme of the symposium was “Inclusive Value Chain Transformation in African Coffee Industry”. Under the chairmanship of Cameroon’s Minister of Tourism and Leisure, Bello Bouba Maigari, who stood in for the Prime Minister, it ...
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People in Moscow Were Buying More Coffee in November

In November 2016 people in Moscow were buying coffee 5% more often than in October 2016 and November 2015, according to Romir Research Holding, The research company explained this growth by the decrease in prices for coffee in November. At the same time people were buying less milk, bottled water, and chocolate. In general, in Russia coffee got 4.8% more expensive ...
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CoffeeBI Celebrates Its First Anniversary

CoffeeBI celebrated its first anniversary on January 1st. It’s an important milestone for us, remembering that we started 12 months ago, and have continued thanks to the passion of a very small team. Now we are proud to be able to celebrate the loyalty of a tireless team of worldwide reporters, expert consultants, and clients who favoured and stuck with ...