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2025 Year in Review: Best of ‘Design Details’

In 2025, some of the most memorable coffee-centered design projects were clearly built around the feelings designers wanted to inspire among guests — comfort and belonging, wonder and spectacle, clarity...

2025.12.29

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Weekly Coffee News: Sustainable Farming in Mexico + Training in Dallas

Welcome to DCN’s Weekly Coffee News! Subscribe here for all the latest coffee industry news. Also, check out the latest career opportunities at CoffeeIndustryJobs.com. Profile: Finca Los Pinos Touts Carbon-Neutral Coffee in...

2025.12.27

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2025 Year In Review: New Coffee Roasting Equipment and Tech

Roasteries large and small grew increasingly full of hot air this year, with multiple innovations emerging from makers of fluid-bed coffee roasting equipment. Artificial intelligence also continued its unrelenting flood...

2025.12.26

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Here Are 26 New Roasters to Support in 2026

2025 was an exceptionally weird year to start a coffee roasting business in the United States. Coffee prices were already elevated, pushed by climate change, labor constraints, higher production costs...

2025.12.26

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2025 Year In Review: New Professional Coffee Grinders

Commercial coffee grinder makers this year sure gave them something to talk about, and by “them,” we mean the grinders. Brand after brand rolled out new wired and wireless platforms...

2025.12.23

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2025 Year In Review: New Commercial Espresso and Brewing Equipment

Communication is key. In commercial cafe equipment, that axiom applies now more than ever as espresso machines and coffee grinders grow increasingly intertwined. This year, multiple major manufacturers unveiled new...

2025.12.23

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2025 Year in Review: 10 New Coffee Shops in the Midwest

The Midwest showed up in 2025 with new coffee shops blending menu inventiveness and creative programming with earnest and sincere service. The openings in this list include roasters expanding into...

2025.12.23

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2025 Year In Review: 10 New West Coast Coffee Shops

Whether to Mexico, Vietnam, Ukraine or outer space, new coffee shops that opened this year up and down the West Coast showed specialty coffee’s power to deepen connections to places...

2025.12.23

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2025 Year In Review: 10 New Coffee Shops in the US Rockies, Plains and Southwest

From the American Southwest up through the great Rocky Mountains this year, a wide range of new coffee bars opened, embracing spirits of renewal, repair and innovation. While 2025 was...

2025.12.23

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2025 Year in Review: 10 New Coffee Shops in the US Southeast

Coffee drinkers throughout the American South have ample new choices for freshly roasted, expertly brewed coffee served with plenty of personality. While 2025 was a particularly challenging year for independent...

2025.12.22

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