Drink coffee every morning? Love how it makes you more alert? Well apparently you’re just about as alert as you would be if you weren’t regularly drinking coffee. You see, not drinking coffee once you’re used to it actually makes you less alert than a normal person. So you’re just drinking coffee to make yourself feel normal. [More]
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Starbucks Sponsors Contest To Create Green Coffee Cups
By 5.22.10
Not content with offering discounts to customers who bring in their own travel mugs, Starbucks has now thrown its weight behind “betacup,” a contest to “eliminate paper cup consumption through the design of a more convenient alternative to the reusable coffee mug.” Some of the ideas submitted so far include a hemp-based cup (we have some ideas about how to recycle that one), cups made from coconut shells, and inflatable, reusable cups. [More]
Do Not Even Try To Escape Starbucks
By 5.17.10
The Seattle’s Best onslaught was just the beginning. Starbucks is ramping up efforts to make sure that, wherever you go, there it is (not that the brand was particularly difficult to come by before, but whatever). This includes making its Via instant coffee more widely available, and selling flavored coffee in supermarkets, all to bump up its share of the brewed coffee market from its current level of just 5%. [More]
Free Small Dunkin' Donuts Iced Coffee Today (Select Markets)
By 5.11.10
If you live in one of the following cities, you can get a free small iced coffee at Dunkin’ Donuts today, May 11th: [More]
50% Off Starbucks Frappuccinos 3pm-5pm Until May 16
By 5.10.10
Now you can get your cold liquid crack fix for less. Starbucks is running a 50% off frappucinos promo until May 16. “Happy hour” is from 3-5pm everyday. No use doing a run for the entire office, though. If your co-workers are jealous, they’ll have to get their own. There’s a limit of one per customer. [More]
Are You Ready For Your Bacon Latte?
By 5.7.10
Bacon donuts. Bacon and egg burgers. Bacon cooked in a machine gun. Have we left anything out that might make your breakfast extra-super-bacony? Of course: bacon-flavored coffee! Thanks to the syrup sprites at Torani, this frontier has at last been breached, and bacon lattes are just a stirrer away. [More]
Coffee Cup Designer Leslie Buck Dies At 87
By 5.1.10
Chances are if you’ve ever gotten a cup of coffee to go in New York City at a deli or street cart, it’s been served to you in a familiar blue and white “We Are Happy to Serve You” cup — or you’ve at least seen it on Law & Order. Leslie Buck, the designer of that iconic Grecian caffeine receptacle, known as the Anthora cup, passed away on Monday, )”>the New York Times reports. [More]
Coffee Shop Reopens After Entire Staff Quit, Business Is Tepid
By 4.28.10
Gorilla Coffee, closed for 16 days after its entire staff quit simultaneously, has reopened, to decidedly decaf customer response. [More]
Starbucks To Introduce Vegan Frappuccinos
By 4.20.10
Starbucks is going to introduce vegan frappuccinos starting May 5. The soy-based confections contain zero dairy and are already available in a few Los Angeles locations. They, unfortunately, do not taste like vegans, nor are they made from them. Here’s an email from a Starbucks manager quarrygirl.com snagged with more details: [More]
Entire Coffee Shop Staff Quits Simultaneously
By 4.13.10
Gorilla Coffee, in Brooklyn, is a well-known local favorite but apparently it’s a lot more fun to drink the coffee than it is to work there. It’s so unpleasant, in fact, that even considering the current economic climate, the entire staff simultaneously quit — forcing the coffee shop to close. The staff sent out an email to the media claiming that it’s not a strike — the “staff quit and the matter will not be resolved.” [More]
Recession Cannot Stop The $13 Cup Of Fancy Coffee
By 4.13.10
The Baltimore Sun is reporting that a local coffee shop called Spro is offering a $13 cup of coffee. And yes, it’s just a cup of coffee. [More]
Reminder: Buy A Starbucks Coffee, Get Free Pastry This Morning
By 3.23.10
Yes, we wrote about this yesterday, but we figured it deserved posting a reminder this morning. Today is Free Pastry Day at Starbucks. It’s a slightly misleading moniker because you don’t just walk in and get a free sweet thing. You have to buy a beverage to get one. But still, it’s basically free because why would anyone ever walk into Starbucks and not buy a beverage? [More]
Photos From Guy Banned By Coffeeshop
By 3.16.10
So, the amateur street photographer who was banned from a coffeeshop for creeping people out? Here’s his Flickr stream. And here’s the picture of the girl smoking that got him banned in the first place: [More]
Burger King And Starbucks Are Finally Teaming Up! Wait, What?
By 2.17.10
If you like Starbucks coffee but you don’t like paying coffee shop prices, starting this summer you should be able to order an iced-mocha-something from your nearest Burger King. The fast food chain is countering McDonald’s recent coffee offerings by teaming up with Starbucks, and prices should be between $1-2.79 according to the Kansas City Star. [More]
Starbucks Remembers How To Sell Coffee
By 1.20.10
Starbucks used to make a lot of money selling coffee-like sugar bombs that people loved and would pay for with cash from their HELOCs. Those days are over, but there’s good news. Starbucks has remembered how to sell coffee and is now doing so in a profitable way. [More]
My Starbucks Caramel Macchiato Was Divided, Conquered
By 1.20.10
On his blog, Phillyman says Starbucks screwed up his Caramel Macchiato by pouring all the caramel into one cup, then placing the cup containing the rest of the drink inside the caramelized container. [More]
9 Shrink-Rayed Products To Mourn
By 12.3.09
LiveCheap has scoured the grocery aisles to discover 9 products that have been reduced by the ubiquitous grocery shrink ray. [More]
