Report: Matcha, Oat Milk and ‘Functional’ Ingredients on the Rise in US and Canada

Payment and business technology giant Square recently analyzed millions of transactions across the United States and Canada to discover coffee consumer trends. Prominent findings included increases in out-of-home coffee purchasing,…

BestCup Spins The Hi-Fi Coffee Pod, a Specialty K-Cup Reinvention

Salt Lake City-based coffee co-packing startup BestCup is offering a new approach to Keurig-style brewing with a compostable pod product called the Hi-Fi Coffee Pod. Featuring an open-bottom filter design,…

Minnesota Company Sues TreeHouse Over Pod Production Secrets

A Minneapolis company called Microtrace is accusing private-label food manufacturing giant TreeHouse Foods of “reverse engineering” proprietary technology used to identify Keurig-style coffee pods. In a lawsuit filed Sept. 30…

Test Drive: Apax Lab Water Minerals

We tried out Apax Lab’s mineral kit, a popular tool for coffee-competition brewing. BY TANYA NANETTI SENIOR ONLINE CORRESPONDENT Photos by Tanya Nanetti For years I was content to use store-bought filtered water when I […]
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Surviving a Sales Slump 

How long is too long when sales are down? Here’s how any coffee shop can navigate and survive the inevitable slow periods.
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Milklab celebrates ninth birthday with café competition

Image: MilklabTo mark its ninth anniversary, Milklab is hosting a competition to encourage cafés to get creative with their coffee offerings. …
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Dear Green achieves strong B Corp recertification results

Lisa Lawson. Image: Dear GreenSpecialty coffee roaster Dear Green has achieved one of the highest B Corp scores of any Scottish coffee roaster during its recent recertification. To pass, companies must score above 80 points on the B Impact Assessment and embed a legal commitment to these values in their business model. Originally certified in 2020, Dear Green achieved
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Eversys Shotmaster wins World Coffee Innovation Award

Image: EversysEversys’ Shotmaster S/ST has been awarded the World Coffee Innovation Award 2024 in the Automatic Coffee Machine category. The award was presented on 1 October at the Caffe Culture Show in London, United Kingdom, where the world’s leading coffee innovations were celebrated. Competing against top industry names, the Shotmaster, which functions as a fully automatic
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Sustainable Harvest announces location for Let’s Talk Coffee 2025

Image: Sustainable HarvestSustainable Harvest’s Let’s Talk Coffee event will return in late September 2025 for a multi-day conference tackling challenges and creating opportunities for the coffee industry. The gathering will take place in Peru for only the second time since its inception in 2003. “Peru is our number one origin based on total volume of exports,” says
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