Craft/Operations

Vancouver’s Artigiano Acquires Organic Specialist Salt Spring Coffee

Two long-running Canadian coffee companies are joining forces in metro Vancouver, B.C., as Artigiano is acquiring Richmond-based Salt Spring Coffee. Artigiano, founded in 1999 as Caffè Artigiano, said the acquisition...

2025.02.04

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Longtime Long Island Roaster Georgio’s Coffee Opens Second Cafe in 20 Years

Almost 20 years after opening its first retail coffee bar on Long Island in New York, Georgio’s Coffee Roasters opened its second cafe. The new shop in the hamlet of...

2025.02.04

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Making Coffee Pods Recyclable is One Thing; Getting Them Recycled is Another

[Note: This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.] There’s a Keurig machine in some 40 million households in the U.S. Single-serve coffee brewing...

2025.01.31

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Subscription Service Podium Coffee Club Champions Award-Winning Roasters

A new online specialty coffee subscription service called Podium Coffee Club is sending customers roasts exclusively from companies that have won national roasting awards from one of three different sources. ...

2025.01.30

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Canvas Coffee + Art House Stretches Out in Greenville, SC

Offering quality and creativity in equal strokes, Canvas Coffee + Art House recently opened its doors just north of downtown Greenville, South Carolina. Coffees prepared with pointillist precision are served...

2025.01.29

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Carlo Di Ruocco, the Original Mr. Espresso, Dies at 90

Carlo Di Ruocco, the Italian-born founder of the California roasting company Mr. Espresso who helped introduce espresso to a generation of Americans, died in his sleep on Jan. 17 at...

2025.01.29

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Inside One of France’s Most Enduring Roasteries, Brûlerie du Léon

Yvette Bozec is more than just a matriarch; she is a French coffee roasting pioneer. With her grandson Clément Bozec now steering the ship as directeur général at Brûlerie du...

2025.01.29

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Office Coffee Giant Eurest Rolls Out Direct Coffee Brand

Office foodservice and catering company Eurest USA recently rolled out a coffee brand of its own called Direct Coffee Roasters. The coffee behind the name is developed through a partnership...

2025.01.29

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Offbeat Coffee is On Point in Sacramento

The tempo is running fast at the first brick-and-mortar location of Sacramento, California’s Offbeat Coffee, which held a soft opening last week. In a long, 3,000-square-foot space, wooden furniture, concrete...

2025.01.28

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It’s Always Full Bloom at Tselia Coffee in Greenville, SC

The cherry blossoms never fade at a new family-run cafe and roastery in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, called Tselia Coffee, where two life-size replica cherry blossom trees set an otherworldly...

2025.01.28

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