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A Costa Coffee employee from the company’s Dorking store has been crowned as the Whitbread-owned firm’s Global Barista of the Year. Gabor Kamondi held off competition from nine other baristas at Costa’s London Roastery to scoop the prize. He won a holiday for two...
Posted: 26 October 2009 | 14:04
Coffee is at the forefront of a new awards scheme, which sets out to tell the public about the remarkable food and drink that is now available from street vendors.
Posted: 16 October 2009 | 10:27
Contract caterer Kudos Hospitality has opened a Coffee Republic outlet at the Bournemouth International Centre just months after the coffee chain went into administration. Administrators KPMG announced in July that it hoped to sell some of the company’s profitable franchises ...
Posted: 06 October 2009 | 08:00
Darcy Willson-Rymer is managing director of Starbucks UK & Ireland which recently switched all espresso-based drinks to Fairtrade-certified coffee. He spoke to Diane Lane about the move, which makes Starbucks the biggest buyer of Fairtrade coffee in the world.
Posted: 01 October 2009 | 10:45
Operators are looking to coffee to reinvigorate brand loyalty.
Posted: 30 September 2009 | 15:19
Starbucks, the brand which pioneered the modern global coffee culture, has had yet another of the rethinks which have become such a notable part of its recent business. This time, the chain is to abandon its policy of stores all looking the same.
Posted: 25 September 2009 | 12:42
There has been a surprising follow-up to our recent report concerning the failure of Gaggia UK, the distributor of espresso machines which was placed in administration in August.
Posted: 25 September 2009 | 12:26
Kenco is behind the latest major move to encourage the recycling of coffee packs. The company is a partner in the British launch of Terracycle, an American concept which ‘rewards’ recyclers by donations to charities of their choice.
Posted: 25 September 2009 | 12:18
"Nescafé has launched its biggest-ever marketing campaign - ‘Coffee at its Brightest’ – which shows how, through our 71 years of experience, we provide the best-tasting cup of coffee,” says Martin Lines, marketing director, at Nestlé Professional.
Posted: 21 September 2009 | 14:55
Starbucks is to ditch its policy of standardised outlets, the Telegraph reports today. Darcy Willson-Rymer, Starbucks' UK and Ireland managing director, admitted the company had made a mistake by homogenizing its brand. He said: "I think we tried to put a bit too much process into the stores.
Posted: 18 September 2009 | 17:29
True ‘exotic’ coffees are now within the reach of the hospitality trade. For the imaginative hotelier or restaurateur willing to develop a menu of occasional coffees, it is now possible to buy in small quantities which will not break the bank, and sell at extremely satisfying prices in the cup.
Posted: 15 September 2009 | 14:46
A barista trainer from Sheffield has devised what may be a unique system of teaching espresso coffee making. It is a one-to-one system in which the participants are not in the same room – they communicate across the internet, using a webcam and the Skype system, that allows live motion pictures to be transferred at the same time as a spoken-voice call.
Posted: 08 September 2009 | 10:52
Starbucks announced at the beginning of September that all espresso-based drinks in its British and Irish coffee-houses will be made from Fairtrade coffee, and announced to the marketing press that it would be embarking on a ‘multi-million pound’ billboard, poster and press campaign to reinforce its ethical values.
Posted: 04 September 2009 | 15:19
The first ‘seasonal’ products have begun to appear in the beverage market in the form of the first of this year’s Christmas coffee blends and, for what may be the very first time, a plum-pudding cookie.
Posted: 04 September 2009 | 14:30
An environmental revolution in coffee-roasting is about to arrive in Britain - the machine promoted as ‘the greenest coffee roaster in the world’ will be launched in the UK during the first week of October.
Posted: 28 August 2009 | 11:49
For the first time, coffee is being commercially roasted in Cornwall. In an area where so many players in the hospitality industry are fiercely proud of showing that they can source all menu items from within their own county, this is a very significant move.
Posted: 28 August 2009 | 11:38
Krispy Kreme, the new star of takeaway ‘superbrands,’ has also become the first high-street chain name to get involved in plans for Britain’s greatest-ever coffee year.
Posted: 28 August 2009 | 11:32
Gaggia, one of the historic pioneering names of espresso coffee and a familiar brand throughout the British catering industry, has suffered the closure of its British base.
Posted: 13 August 2009 | 13:40
Caffe Society of Leeds has made an early move to encourage catering-trade interest in 2010, the year the World Barista Championship comes to the UK.
Posted: 13 August 2009 | 12:28
Beverage operators who want to be cutting edge may now have to understand such strange concepts as the flat white, long black, stumpy, and even the piccolo. Ian Boughton explains.
Posted: 12 August 2009 | 15:23
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