Coffee roasting giant Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA has agreed to pay $65,000 plus additional relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Massimo Zanetti USA Pays $65,000 to Settle Sexual Harassment Suit
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Coca-Cola Makes ‘On Trend’ Bet with $5.1 Billion Costa Coffee Acquisition
When you read about, write about and generally obsess over coffee for approximately 362 days a year, it can be easy to forget that it is just a blip on...
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World Coffee Roasting Championship Heading to Rimini in January
Now in its sixth year, the World Coffee Roasting Championship (WCRC) for 2018 is heading to Rimini, Italy, in conjunction with the Sigep hospitality industry conference on Jan. 19-23, 2019....
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Unpacking Coffee with Kandace and Ray: Recreational Coffee
On this week’s episode of Unpacking Coffee, Kandace and Ray get to know Long Beach, California-based roaster/retailer Recreational Coffee, created by the married team of Bobby and Correne Hernandez. To answer...
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Inside Glanville & Babinski’s New Go Get Em Tiger Roasting Operation in LA
Despite steady acclaim and fiercely loyal patronage for their first three Los Angeles-area multiroaster coffee shops — G&B Coffee at Grand Central Market and Go Get Em Tiger (GGET) locations...
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Ritual Coffee Releases ‘Seawall Stroll’ in Port of San Francisco Partnership
First established in the 1960s and completed just over a century ago, the Embarcadero Seawall has been a marvel of engineering in San Francisco, serving as an historically and culturally...
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Starbucks ‘Humbly’ Enters Italy with a 25,000-Square-Foot Coffee Spectacle
Starbucks has opened for the first time in Italy, a country the company repeatedly has described as humbling for its longstanding espresso and cafe culture. “We have taken our time...
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Nespresso Invests Big in Zimbabwe Coffee Amid Agricultural Reforms
Nestlé-owned pod coffee giant Nespresso has announced plans to buy more than 95 percent of the “high-quality coffee production” from Zimbabwean smallholder farmers in 2018. The purchase is part of...
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2018 World Aeropress Championship Heading to Sydney, Australia
More than 60 national Aeropress champions have been crowned this year, and the bulk of them will be trying to press their way to the top at the 11th annual...
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Coffee Can Extend Longevity for People with Kidney Disease, Research Shows
Research published today suggests that people with chronic kidney disease who drink coffee are, on the whole, likely to outlive non coffee drinkers. Published in the journal Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation by researchers...
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Design Details: The Logo-Inspired Interior Redesign at Chicago’s Passion House
When the now 7-year-old Chicago company Passion House Coffee Roasters swung open the doors to its first cafe in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood last May, it had many of a specialty...
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Co-Roasting Between the Coasts: Proof of Coffee Prepares Opening in Lincoln (NE)
In the United States, the proliferation of commercial co-roasting spaces with legit equipment, adequate production and storage space, green coffee sourcing opportunities and knowledgeable staff has largely taken place on...
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With Algrano Partnership, Salvadoran Coffee Leaders Turn to Tech for Market Access
With commodity coffee prices at historic lows in terms of real dollars, coffee sector leaders in El Salvador have turned to tech in an attempt to provide increased specialty market...
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Unpacking Coffee with Kandace and Ray: Equator Coffees & Teas
This week’s episode of Unpacking Coffee includes an extensive sit-down with specialty coffee trailblazer Helen Russell, who along with business partner Brooke McDonnell has built San Rafael, California-based Equator Coffees...
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Meta Coffee Lab’s Adventurous Small Bar Inside Lincoln’s Zipline Brewing
After first slow-diving into commercial coffee roasting for wholesale and for sales direct to consumers more than two years ago, Lincoln, Nebraska-based Meta Coffee Lab is now dipping its toes into the...
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Roasting Company Mesteeso Launches with Sharp Focus on Brazil
As the world’s largest coffee-producing country by volume, Brazil is an origin that has been named in virtually every story about coffee’s woefully low price in the commodities market. Yet...
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Sustainable Harvest and IDB Announce Three-Year Mexico Coffee Revival Project
At its 15th Let’s Talk Coffee global event today in Cartagena, Colombia, green coffee importer Sustainable Harvest announced the launch of a three-year program worth $2 million designed to assist...
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Coffee is Rapidly Losing Its Resistance to Rust, Says WCR Science Director
The coffee industry has traditionally and conveniently placed coffee varieties and cultivars into one of two simple categories when considering plants’ natural resistance to leaf rust disease: 1) resistant, or...
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Starbucks Supplying 2 Million Coffee Seeds to Puerto Rico
A year and a week after Hurricane Maria wreaked havoc on Puerto Rico and its people, destroying most of the territory’s coffee crop in the process, Starbucks has announced it...
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Three Geshas Top Nine Colombia Cup of Excellence Lots Scoring 90+
A record-breaking nine coffees in this year’s Cup of Excellence competition in Colombia scored 90 points or above, as scored by an experienced international jury. The nine lots — including...
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