Northeast

Coffee’s Voyage from Honduras to New Hampshire Culminates at Odysea

With its first cafe now open in Bristol, New Hampshire, Odysea Coffee Roasters is connecting one of its founder’s roots in Honduras to another founder’s roots in New England. Occupying...

2024.11.08

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Report: China’s Largest Coffee Chain Luckin Prepping US Launch

Chinese coffee giant Luckin Coffee is planning a small-scale launch in the United States, less than four years after the company agreed to a $180 million settlement with the Securities...

2024.10.30

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Maryland’s Ceremony Coffee Now Part of FairWave Collective

Maryland-based Ceremony Coffee Roasters is now part of the FairWave Specialty Coffee Collective, a conglomerate of specialty coffee brands that launched in 2020 and now comprises more than 30 cafes...

2024.10.30

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Maryland’s Ceremony Coffee Now Part of FairWave Collective

Maryland-based Ceremony Coffee Roasters is now part of the FairWave Specialty Coffee Collective, a conglomerate of specialty coffee brands that launched in 2020 and now comprises more than 30 cafes...

2024.10.30

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New CEO for New York-Based Coffee Chain Bluestone Lane

New York City-based coffee chain Bluestone Lane is getting a new CEO at the end of this month, as longtime hospitality executive Edie Ames takes over for founder Nicholas Stone....

2024.10.29

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Mad Catter Coffee Roasters is Up and Purring in Pennsylvania

The specialty coffee rabbit hole for Pennsylvania’s Mad Catter Coffee Roasters got exponentially deeper last month with the opening of the company’s spacious production roastery and training facility in Allentown....

2024.10.15

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US Department of Labor Sues New York Coffee Chain Over Overtime Pay

A New York City specialty coffee chain called White Noise Coffee is facing a lawsuit from the United States Department of Labor (DOL) alleging violations related to overtime pay and...

2024.10.14

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In Brooklyn, Lucienne Coffee is Serving Coffees Roasted in Japan

A new coffee company called Lucienne Coffee in Brooklyn, New York, is specializing in the brewing and sales of high-quality specialty coffees roasted in, and imported from, Japan. Selling whole...

2024.10.07

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Coffee and Content Creation Combined at NYC’s Coffee Check

A Brooklyn, New York-based consumer tech vlogger went from shooting videos inside coffee shops to opening a coffee shop of his own called Coffee Check. The approximately 2,500-square-foot cafe that...

2024.09.27

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The Boredom Set Excites Pittsburgh With Two Bars and a Roastery

An upstart roasting company called The Boredom Set is enthusiastically piquing the neurons of coffee drinkers in Pittsburgh, opening two coffee bars within the past month. In the quaint, mostly...

2024.09.11

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