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Ryan Wilbur and Laila Ghambari Buy Portland’s Guilder and Junior’s Roasted Coffee

Portland, Oregon-area coffee professionals Ryan Wilbur and Laila Ghambari have purchased the progressive and influential sibling coffee businesses, Guilder and Junior’s Roasted Coffee. The married couple plans to maintain existing...

2024.04.27

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Coffee Shop Operations Software Provider Dripos Lands $11 Million Round

New York-based coffee shop software provider Dripos closed an $11 million Series A funding round led by San Francisco-based tech investment firm Base10. Founded by Jack Pawlik and Avery Durrant, Dripos remains...

2024.04.26

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Luckin Coffee Opens China’s Largest Coffee Roastery

Chinese coffee roasting and retail giant Luckin Coffee this week opened a massive $120 million roasting plant in Kunshan. Located between the cities of Shanghai and Suzhou, the new roastery...

2024.04.25

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Coffee and Grocery Chain Foxtrot Abruptly Closes All 33 US Stores

Specialty coffee shop and boutique grocery chain Foxtrot abruptly closed all 33 of its locations throughout the United States yesterday, giving little notice to hundreds of employees who are now...

2024.04.25

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From the 2024 SCA Expo: New Professional Roasting Equipment

While robot baristas tend to get a lot of attention, mechanical automation and artificial intelligence may be making faster inroads to the coffee industry through roasting equipment. Many of the...

2024.04.24

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Editorial: Shame on the Coffee Industry’s Earth Day PR

The coffee industry, an inherently environmental-resource-intensive entity, has tamped down its publicly stated enthusiasm for the Earth Day holiday in recent years. This may be due to some measure of...

2024.04.24

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Nestlé Names Philipp Navratil CEO of Nespresso

Global coffee giant Nespresso has appointed Philipp Navratil CEO. He replaces Guillaume Le Cunff as the chief executive of the Nestlé-owned company, while Le Cunff is slated to become CEO...

2024.04.24

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New From the 2024 SCA Expo: Tools, Accessories and Gadgets

The world of equipment designed for the betterment of specialty coffee preparation and service has been rapidly expanding far beyond the categorical boundaries of roasters, grinders and brewers. A multitude...

2024.04.23

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New From the 2024 SCA Expo: Home Brewers and Grinders

Reflecting growing demand for higher-quality brews at home, a wide variety of new consumer-focused brewing and grinding equipment debuted at the recent Specialty Coffee Expo in Chicago. [See DCN’s complete 2024...

2024.04.23

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From the 2024 SCA Expo: Commercial Brewing, Espresso and Grinding Equipment

Single boilers and single streams: These sum up two respective mechanical trends in commercial espresso and drip coffee that appeared at last week’s Specialty Coffee Expo in Chicago. [See DCN’s complete...

2024.04.20

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