Coffee & Tea Zone (719) 632-3887 25 N Tejon St # 101, Colorado Springs, CO 80903 A quaint little hole in the wall coffee shop with full coffee, tea, and espresso bar, as well as bubble tea. Friendly staff and free wireless. One computer terminal with affordable prices if you’re laptop-less. Rating 4 stars out…
Monthly Archives: April 2006
Roasting Coffee in a Barn
When Mark and Lisa Verrochi lost their “three Boston coffee stand leases to large corporate landlords,” they decided to start over — in a small, red, rent-free barn in their back yard. Out of that barn in Hopkinton, Mass., Red Barn Coffee Roasters was born. The company soon grew to include 7 locations. It’s still…
The Cultural Impact of Starbucks
Bryant Simon, professor at Philadelphia’s Temple University, is “searching for the meaning of modern life amid the round tables and comfy sofas of Starbucks coffee shops.” He has observed out 300 Starbucks locations in 6 countries, trying to learn “what it means to live and consume in the age of globalization.” In 2008, expect to…
Celebrity Coffee Is Not For Me
Kopi Luwak is a very expensive coffee bean, mostly drunk by the rich and famous because of it’s hefty price. A pound of these beans can run you $300 or more but it is supposed to make one of the best tasting coffees in the world. The secret to the beans is a marsupial in Indonesia…
Aurafice (Seattle, WA)
Aurafice Aurafice Internet and Coffee Bar 616 East Pine Street, Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA 98122. Ph: 206.860.9977. email: info@aurafice.com. http://www.aurafice.com/. A hole in the wall coffee joint and cyber cafe with good teas and coffee, mostly good music, and a great alternative ambience. A social network pipeline for some of Seattle’s alternative crowd. Some presentation…
Definition of Coffee Success
How do you define success if you run a coffee house? Is it by the number of customers, good press or like Starbucks the ability to charge people crazy prices and watch them pay even while they grumble? Coffee makes me sick as in I’ll run the other way if you come towards me with…
World Coffee (Dusseldorf, Germany)
World Coffee Friedrichstrasse 34, 40217 Dusseldorf, Germany Tele 0211-99 43 408. www.worldcoffee.de. A quaint chain coffee shop that reminded me of a combination between a Starbucks and a Blenz. Friendly staff, decent prices, good seating. Chai i ordered was ok, tasted like loose leaf. Visited on 3/22/06. 3 stars out of 5.