Category: Retail

A new coffee equipment maker called Mundo Novo launched at this month’s SCA Expo in Chicago, offering an automated manual-style … Continue ReadingMundo Novo Enters the World of Automatic Pourovers

Portland, Oregon-area coffee professionals Ryan Willbur and Laila Ghambari have purchased the progressive and influential sibling coffee businesses, Guilder and … Continue ReadingRyan Willbur and Laila Ghambari Buy Portland’s Guilder and Junior’s Roasted Coffee

New York-based coffee shop software provider Dripos closed an $11 million Series A funding round led by San Francisco-based tech … Continue ReadingCoffee Shop Operations Software Provider Dripos Lands $11 Million Round

At its first brick-and-mortar retail location in Mesa, Arizona, Empower Coffee Roasters is balancing a business model that offers high-quality … Continue ReadingEmpower Coffee Roasters Starts Off Strong in Mesa, Arizona

Specialty coffee shop and boutique grocery chain Foxtrot abruptly closed all 33 of its locations throughout the United States yesterday, … Continue ReadingCoffee and Grocery Chain Foxtrot Abruptly Closes All 33 US Stores

Single boilers and single streams: These sum up two respective mechanical trends in commercial espresso and drip coffee that appeared … Continue ReadingFrom the 2024 SCA Expo: Commercial Brewing, Espresso and Grinding Equipment

Popular New York-based specialty coffee chain Bluestone Lane is placing a bet on the emerging coffee-free coffee movement, partnering with … Continue ReadingAtomo ‘Beanless Espresso’ Drinks Are Coming to Bluestone Lane

The co-founders of Portland, Oregon-based craft brewery Steeplejack Brewing have plunged headlong into coffee with the Harder Day Coffee Company. … Continue ReadingHarder Day Coffee is Making it Look Easy in Portland

San Francisco-born roaster and retailer Sightglass Coffee has named former Starbucks national sales executive Sharon Healy as CEO. Healy, who … Continue ReadingSF’s Sightglass Coffee Names New CEO as Founders Step Down

The world has two new coffee champions for 2024: World Brewers Cup Champion Martin Wölfl of Austria; and World Cup … Continue ReadingHere Are the Newest 2024 World and US Coffee Champions