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Instant coffee manufacturers are now claiming that their products stand up beside the best roast-and-ground offerings. But can instant coffee ever
be served as the real thing?
Posted: 15 May 2009 | 17:03
The correct temperature for making tea and coffee remains a hotly debated subject. Green and white teas
don't respond well to boiling water and every coffee has its temperature "sweet spot". Ian Boughton is stirred to get to the bottom of of what makes an enjoyable brew
Posted: 15 May 2009 | 16:55
So it really never simply rains if you're a pub operator, it pours and then some. Compounding a quite miserable few months for the pub trade, MPs this week accused the likes of Enterprise Inns and Punch Taverns of bullying their tenants. Ouch, that's going ...
Posted: 15 May 2009 | 15:43
Contract caterer BaxterStorey will officially launch its Barista Academy tonight, in a move it claims places coffee “at the heart of its business”. The Barista Academy, based at BaxterStorey client IPC Media in London, has been overseen by James Hoffmann...
Posted: 13 May 2009 | 16:27
More than 50% of consumers are likely to reduce their spend in coffee shops.
Posted: 12 May 2009 | 12:13
With duty on alcohol increasing by 2%, on top of the credit crunch, that ‘drink’ may increasingly be coffee… Gone are days of long business lunches, more likely it’s “a cup of coffee and a sandwich”.
Posted: 12 May 2009 | 11:17
Most people when asked about coffee will say ‘don’t drink too much, it’s not good for you’, ‘don’t drink it at night, it will keep you awake’. That might be true for a small minority, but for the majority of us there are many positive reasons why drinking a cup of coffee could well be doing us good.
Posted: 12 May 2009 | 11:06
Tips was one of the issues that dominated the headlines this week, namely the practice of using non-cash tips to subsidise staff wages, which will be outlawed from October. First the Government rejected the British Hospitality Association's claim that ...
Posted: 08 May 2009 | 15:49
The UK coffee bar market is on track to reach £2b in consumer spend by 2012 despite the recession, according to a new report.
Posted: 06 May 2009 | 14:37
The higher standard of work in the speciality coffee trade has been shown by a remarkable addition to the subjects on offer by the London School of Coffee, probably the UK’s main source of learning for the espresso world.
Posted: 01 May 2009 | 12:29
The Coffee in Good Spirits competition at May’s Caffe Culture show is one of the rare, but valuable, opportunities for the beverage trade and the bar trade to come together.
Posted: 30 April 2009 | 09:00
The degree of technology (and sometimes pseudo-technology) being claimed by espresso machine makers is now beyond the understanding of the average manager in the hospitality trade, claims a world barista championship judge.
Posted: 30 April 2009 | 08:00
The Coffee Summit meeting, to be held in London the day before this year’s Caffe Culture exhibition, will now include two presentations which go straight to the heart of major issues facing caterers who depend on beverages as a major part of their trade.
Posted: 29 April 2009 | 18:10
The small-turnover espresso coffee sector has received some useful research help from, of all people, the Which? organisation.
Posted: 29 April 2009 | 18:00
Nescafé, Britain’s favourite coffee according to the Allegra Coffee Shop Report 2007, is launching a new competition – offering customers the chance to win an exclusive Nescafé Coffee Zone.
Posted: 17 April 2009 | 12:09
The surprise of the UK barista championship being won by an operator of a coffee-cart rather than a traditional bricks-and-mortar café has sparked renewed interest in the already-growing sector of mobile coffee services.
Posted: 31 March 2009 | 16:05
We can expect more ‘knocking’ campaigns in the retail coffee industry, a marketing magazine has said following Costa’s new advertising campaign, which consists of a direct attack on Starbucks.
Posted: 31 March 2009 | 14:53
Rombouts, the coffee company which made its name through single-serve filter coffee, has now become an approved City & Guilds training centre.
Posted: 31 March 2009 | 14:44
A man who runs a coffee cart in London has become the UK barista champion for this year and will represent the country in the world’s speciality-coffee championship in the USA next month.
Posted: 13 March 2009 | 10:34
The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld complaints against the British Coffee Association for claims that coffee can ‘play an active role… in terms of health and fitness’, that it could alleviate the symptoms of the common cold, and that if taken with Ibuprofen, coffee could act as a safe painkiller.
Posted: 10 March 2009 | 16:03
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