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Love them or hate them, you can't deny that flavoured coffees have proved popular in the hot drinks marketplace. From the operators point of view, though, the trick is to keep things simple. Ian Boughton reports.
Posted: 12 March 2010 | 12:58
Will automatic espresso machines ever make as good a cup of coffee as a qualified barista? Maybe not, but they get pretty close, and the reality is that most of your customers won't notice the difference. Ian Boughton reports.
Posted: 12 March 2010 | 12:58
In a move which has taken the espresso machine sector completely by surprise, First Choice Coffee has taken on exclusive UK distributorship of Nuova Simonelli machines, including the one which will be used in this year's World Barista Championship finals. Coffeetech, the distributors up to now...
Posted: 12 March 2010 | 12:01
An employee of London-based coffee machine accessory firm Gorilla Tampers has been named the UK's top barista. John Gordon won the final of the UK Barista Championship held at Hotelympia last week, beating 19 other finalists. Gordon will now go on to represent the UK at the World Barista...
Posted: 08 March 2010 | 12:12
Costa Coffee continued to be the driving force behind sales growth at Whitbread, which announced a group sales lift of 5.4% in a trading update released today.
Like-for-like sales at Costa for the three months to 18 February grew by 9.5%, benefiting from the launch of Costa’s new ‘Flat White’ coffee ...
Posted: 04 March 2010 | 10:54
The top twenty baristas (espresso coffee makers) in Britain have been found, and will all be heading for the UK barista championship in London this coming weekend. The champion British barista will go forward to the world finals in June, which for the first time are also being held in the UK.
Posted: 22 February 2010 | 13:43
The UK's top 20 baristas are heading for a semi-final showdown at Hotelympia, after the final heat of the championships saw three finalists go through from London and the South East. The top positions in the heat went to: 1st) Neil Le Bihan, Exchange Coffee, Lewisham Market; 2nd) James Phillips...
Posted: 22 February 2010 | 12:35
One of the world’s most exotic coffee-growing areas is the subject of a trade rescue appeal, following a disaster which has been barely reported in the world news, having been largely overshadowed by the events in Haiti.
Posted: 15 February 2010 | 18:22
The first national champions of the speciality coffee year have taken their prizes at the Expowest foodservice show in Exeter.Ttles were awarded for ‘latte art’, the skill of pouring or etching a design on the top of a cop of coffee, and for the best speciality coffee cocktail.
Posted: 15 February 2010 | 18:12
One of the main aims of UK Coffee Week in September 2010 will be to raise a million pounds to provide clean drinking water and education to poor communities in African coffee-producing countries.
Posted: 15 February 2010 | 17:57
The beverage trade’s reaction to the launch of Costa Coffee’s ‘flat white’ drink has been more intense and more varied than anyone expected – but it has served a very good purpose for the hospitality trade by bringing the speciality-coffee trade into the general spotlight at just the right time.
Posted: 01 February 2010 | 13:44
This year will certainly turn out to be the best opportunity the hospitality trade has ever had to capitalise on espresso-based coffee. The latest news from the barista championships, potentially the biggest promotional event in speciality coffee, is all good...
Posted: 26 January 2010 | 12:54
Peros, the leading supplier of Fairtrade beverages and similar products to the hospitality trade, has had a successful holiday season in winning awards.
Posted: 15 January 2010 | 10:40
The conference programme at this year’s Caffe Culture exhibition offers valuable insights for those in the wider catering and hospitality trades who want to maximize their returns from hot beverages.
Posted: 08 January 2010 | 12:21
There will be more than 12,500 coffee shop outlets in the UK by the end of 2012 as coffee culture becomes “fully entrenched in modern UK lifestyle”, experts predicted today. The ninth annual UK Project Café report, from analyst firm Allegra Strategies, shows that the coffee shop market...
Posted: 16 December 2009 | 07:00
Whitbread has made a £36m cash offer for Coffeeheaven, the UK-owned operator of 90 coffee shops in central and eastern Europe. The move, which followed last Friday’s announcement that Whitbread was in “advanced discussions” over a potential deal...
Posted: 15 December 2009 | 10:18
Whitbread is in “advanced discussions” with coffee bar operator Coffeeheaven regarding a possible takeover. The business, which counts Premier Inn budget hotels, pubs and Costa Coffee cafés among its assets, is discussing a cash offer of 24p per ordinary Coffeeheaven share.
Posted: 11 December 2009 | 11:33
To the fascination of the entire British coffee trade, Starbucks has added the ‘flat white’ to its coffee menu. Flat white is an espresso drink of Australian origin and was one of the drinks we predicted would become the next mainstream menu item, in Caterer and Hotelkeeper’s Inside Beverages feature in August.
Posted: 09 December 2009 | 16:58
Instant coffee, it has been revealed, is the drink which will save the planet. At the same time, it may help humans live longer. The curious findings come from one new research report, and one product launch.
Posted: 09 December 2009 | 16:49
The Bath Coffee Festival has launched itself with all the ingredients for a flavoured latte and a biscuit on the side. The first four major sponsors to sign up have been announced as Taylerson’s Malmesbury Syrups, coffee roaster Martin Carwardine, Gold Top Milk, and the Marshfield bakery.
Posted: 08 December 2009 | 10:16
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