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Ten New Coffee Shops in the Southeastern United States

It is a boom time for specialty coffee in the American South. While markets like Atlanta and Nashville continue to add to already robust coffee scenes, smaller enclaves throughout the...

2023.12.23

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Portland’s Futura Coffee Roasters Brings Regenerative Focus to East Coast

With direct ties to Colombian specialty coffee and a proactive economic approach to environmental stewardship, Oregon-based Futura Coffee Roasters has expanded to the east coast. The growing Futura leadership team...

2023.12.21

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Wyoming’s Pine Coffee Supply Spruces Up the Boise Coffee Scene

Pine Coffee Supply, a quality-obsessive coffee company born in small-town Wyoming, has found a second home in the relatively big city of Boise, Idaho. The Pinedale, Wyoming-based coffee roasting company...

2023.12.20

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Japan’s Geshary Coffee Buys Manhattan Building for $38 Million

Japanese coffee company Geshary Coffee has closed on a Fifth Avenue property in New York City for $38 million, with plans to occupy the building. The purchase of the five-story...

2023.12.20

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The Sepia Coffee Project Offers a Guiding Light in Metro Detroit

When Martell Mason returned to metro Detroit in 2020, he found a more hopeful place than the one he’d left 20 years earlier. Yet when he zoomed in on his...

2023.12.20

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Labor Board Complaint Asks Starbucks to Reopen 23 Stores

A consolidated complaint from the National Labor Relations Board has urged Starbucks to immediately reopen 23 stores that workers alleged were shut down in order to discourage unionization efforts. According...

2023.12.15

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Greenstreet Coffee Replants Itself in South Philadelphia

The retail operations of Philadelphia roasting company Greenstreet Coffee are verdant once again with the opening of a new South Philadelphia cafe just blocks away from the Greenstreet roastery. Helping...

2023.12.14

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Juju’s Coffee Charms East Dallas with New Roastery Cafe

A young North Texas coffee company called Juju’s Coffee has channeled the retro appeal of its 1962 Airstream trailer for its first brick-and-mortar roastery cafe in East Dallas. A bright...

2023.12.13

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Report: China Overtakes United States as Largest Coffee Shop Market

China has overtaken the United States as the country with the highest number of coffee shops in the world, according to the latest annual report on the East Asian coffee...

2023.12.13

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Take Care by Oleo Offers a Warm Welcome in Kansas City

Inside a well-worn coffee space in Kansas City, Missouri, is the first public retail expression of roasting company Oleo Coffee. Located in the Crossroads district space formerly occupied by Kansas...

2023.12.12

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