In Canada, you will not find many Dunkin Donuts or Starbucks. Tim Hortons is all the rage north of the border. Canadians actually feel so strongly about Tim Hortons that some actually aspire to hold their weddings there. Kind of odd, yes, but obviously there is some connection between Canadians and this chain. I know…
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Starbucks Innovation
With the competition heating up for Starbucks in the coffee and specialty coffee business, there needs to be something new that sets them back on top. McDonalds and Dunkin Donuts have successfully cut into their market share with their cheaper coffees, lattes and cappuccinos. Starbucks had been offering fresh sandwiches to accompany it’s already exquisite…
What’s so great about Starbucks?
Why do independent coffee shops struggle to compete with Starbucks?
Coffeehouse Locations
Whenever I’m at a place of business that provides a customer service, I try to think outside myself about what opportunities there are for business to assist that business. This brainstorming usually happens when I’m waiting at a place of business for an extended period of time. The car dealer waiting for service, the registry…
How Hot is Too Hot
Most coffee drinkers love nothing more than a hot cup of coffee with their personal preference of cream and or sugar. When we get that cup, most of us have to wait until it cools down a bit, this is because coffee is an extremely hot beverage. Typically the heat doesn’t bother us to hold…
Coffee Prices
Coffee currently stands as the second most widely consumed beverage, right behind water and right above tea. As a society, coffee is almost as important to our day as breakfast (exaggerating) as seemingly few people are able to start their day without it. Some even go through 2, 3 or even more cups a day….
Coffeehouse Wifi
One of the best features of the 21st century coffee house is the free wireless internet offered to customers. This allows for people to enjoy their coffee and or pastry and get some work or recreational web browsing done. This perk, much like any freebie, is abused by few and thus we all suffer. There…
The Freshest Cup
There is nothing worse than pouring a cup of coffee at work and finding out you are the one taking the last cup. First of all, you now know it’s your job to refill the pot. What’s worse is that you don’t know how long that coffee has been sitting in that pot, burning on…
Ways to enhance coffee
Coffee is becoming a worldwide house staple. I’m sure at least one person you know drinks coffee or has it in their kitchens. There are plenty coffee drinkers that love their coffee black, some like it with either cream/milk and sugar, and there are some (like myself) that like it with cream and sugar. I…
Make angry comments on cyberspace
Have you ever done anything like this before? If you have too much anger toward you job, or your supervisor. You need to venting your anger anonymously, the best place you come up will be the cyberspace. Don’t you? There were many online friends who can share your anger for the moment, and who can…