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Another group worshipping caffeine.
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SOMETIMES it’s hard to tell how much coffee costs, even if you know what you spent. At least that’s the case with many of the single-serve brewing machines that are soaring in popularity. For example, the Nespresso Arpeggio costs $5.70 for 10 espresso capsules, while the Folgers Black Silk blend for a K-Cup brewed-coffee machine is $10.69 for 12 pods. But that Nespresso capsule contains 5 grams of coffee, so it costs about $51 a pound. And the Folgers, with 8 grams per capsule, works out to more than $50 a pound. That’s even more expensive than all but the priciest coffees sold by artisanal roasters, the stuff of coffee snobs. An exclusive single-origin espresso like the Ethiopia, Gedeo Single Origin Espresso from Sightglass Coffee costs $19 for a 12-ounce bag, or about $25 a pound. La Cima beans for brewed coffee from Stumptown Coffee Roasters, a Grand Cru selection grown at Finca el Injerto, a renowned farm in Guatemala, is $28.50 for a 12-ounce bag, or $38 a pound.
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With Coffee, the Price of Individualism Can Be High
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The heartbroken owners of a neighborhood coffee shop were left with thousands of dollars in repairs after thieves ripped off less than $50 in copper overnight. The owners, Yolanda Black Navarra and Lolita Guererro went to open Sombreros Coffee Shop on Navigation Wednesday, but found they had no electricity. "We came in this morning and there were no lights and we didn’t know what the problem was and we called CenterPoint and went to the back and found out they (thieves) had cut the wires completely, I guess for copper," said Navarra. The owners have only been in business a few months and say this is a major setback. "It's hard, it’s very hard because we had a lot of parties planned this weekend for the business, you know, people were coming in planning to have meetings here. We’re virtually out of business now,†said Guererro. “It’s like CenterPoint Energy told us, they (thieves) took $30 worth of copper and it is going to cost us $12,000 to get it fixed."
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Thieves cost heartbroken coffee shop owners thousands in damages for $30 worth of wiring
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The manufacturer of Bosch-brand Tassimo brewers announced a massive recall Thursday after receiving dozens of reports of second-degree burns, including one involving a Canadian toddler. About 900,000 single-cup coffee brewers with plastic discs have been sold in Canada since June 2008, and another 835,000 have been sold south of the border, BSH Home Appliances Corp and Kraft Foods said. The disc that holds the coffee or tea, sold since last August, can burst and spray the hot liquid, posing a burn hazard. The company is now offering a free replacement disc holder for the brewing mechanism. The company says it received word of the first incident involving the brewer within months of the product launch in 2008, and received the first report of a problem with the disc last December. One of the incidents involving the disc affected a two-year-old Canadian girl, who suffered second-degree burns to her face. In the U.S. a 10-year-old girl from Minnesota was hospitalized
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Tassimo coffee-maker piece recalled after customers burned
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Are coffee and Red Bull passé? A Harvard professor thinks the next big thing will be people inhaling their caffeine from a lipstick-sized tube. Critics say the product is not without risks. The product, called AeroShot, went on the market late last month in Massachusetts and New York, and is also available in France. A single unit costs $2.99 at convenience, liquor and online stores. Each grey-and-yellow plastic canister contains 100 milligrams of caffeine powder, about the amount in a large cup of coffee, plus B vitamins. Once a user shoots a puff of calorie-free AeroShot into his or her mouth, the lemon-lime powder begins dissolving almost instantly. Each single-use container has up to six puffs. Biomedical engineering professor David Edwards said AeroShot, which he developed, is safe and does not contain common additives, like taurine, used to amplify the caffeine effect in common energy drinks.
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Take a breath: You can get a caffeine fix from an inhaler
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In the highly competitive U.S. coffee market, Dunkin' Donuts is once again distinguished for brewing a superior guest experience. For the sixth straight year, Dunkin' Donuts, America's all-day, everyday stop for coffee and baked goods, has been recognized by the Brand Keys Customer Loyalty Engagement Index as number one in customer loyalty in the coffee category. The 16th annual national survey conducted by brand loyalty and engagement consultancy Brand Keys identifies brands that are best able to engage consumers by meeting or exceeding their expectations, which creates loyal customers. Brand Keys' Customer Loyalty Engagement Index recognizes the brands that receive the highest loyalty and engagement assessments and surpass competitors for "delighting" customers. In the coffee category, consumer preferences were based on consistently meeting customer expectations for taste, quality, service, and brand value.
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Dunkin' Donuts Is Number One in Coffee Customer Loyalty for Sixth Straight Year
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Su Nan stood inside a Starbucks on Shanghai's bustling Huaihai Road and complained about the US coffee chain's recent price hike. "It's already expensive. How am I going to live?" But the 26-year-old still joined a long line for a latte. The world's biggest coffee chain raised the price of some products on Jan 31, due to what it said were rising operating costs. That brought Su's 16-ounce (about half a liter) "grande" cup to 30 yuan ($4.75) from 28 yuan. Starbucks was already an expensive choice for regular Chinese customers such as Su, who earns about 7,000 yuan a month. One cup of cappuccino a day for a year would cost her 10,950 yuan - about one-eighth of her income. Still, Su is better off than many others. China's per capita GDP last year was $5,184. It was $48,147 in the US. Despite a huge gap in personal income, Starbucks has priced its products almost the same in China as in the US, if not higher, since it entered the Chinese market in 1999.
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No coffee mourning over expensive drinks in Starbucks
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At a small stand next to a photocopying shop, Ram Shankar Patidar is heating milk on a single gas stove. The focus of his attention is a stainless steel container, which is bubbling and rattling as he adds tea leaves, water, spices, and freshly crushed ginger. Patidar has been making and selling Indian tea, better known as chai, for more than 40 years. He has occupied the same spot in a busy suburban business district in Mumbai for more than a decade, but for the past eight weeks there's been a new addition to the street. Directly opposite his stand is a branch of India's largest coffee chain, Cafe Coffee Day, abbreviated by many to CCD. "They don't make much of a difference to me," he says as he ladles the mixture through muslin into a small glass. "Those who can afford to go to CCD would anyway. It's much more expensive than what I sell." For centuries, the humble chai wallah has been part of the country's fabric, but in the past decade,
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Coffee v tea: Is India falling for the cappuccino?
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