Extra strong coffee on Monday morning

4-2-2013

Starbucks introduces ‘Mondays can be great’ in the UK. From 7 January to 18 February you can get an extra strong cup of coffee for £1,50 until 11am. Click here for the promo video by Starbucks.

Coffee with free sausage

11-1-2013

Hema steps into the coffee branch with coffee and cake for €1,=. Lunchroom Cappuccino from Rotterdam will launch a counter offensive on 11 and 12 January with the act #tijdvoorkoffie (Timeforcoffee). By every cup of coffee customers get a free Unox sausage.

Simplified coffee menu

23-11-2012

UK department store Debenhams simplifies their coffee menu, in direct opposition to coffee shops like Starbucks. No low-fat soja milk caramel mocha frappuccino, but just a really really milky coffee or a chocolate flavoured coffee, available is a cup or a mug.

Playing domino during your cup of coffee

29-10-2012

The playful artists at Christopher Norman Chocolates creates these chocolate-caramel confections by hand from start to finish, then arrange them domino-style, in a custom gift box. Dark chocolate is molded into sharply defined rectangles, piped with white chocolate dots and filled with rich, silky caramel. Nice to serve at coffee time.

Human powered coffee

21-9-2012

The Velopresso is a mobile pedal powered coffee bar. The stylish designed verhicle is silent, environmental friendly and doesn’t depend on power supply.

Starbucks makes laundry detergent out of coffee grounds

31-8-2012

Starbucks works together with biorefinery scientists to transform food waste into key ingredients for laundry detergent, plastics and other everyday products. The coffee makers announced this at the 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society’. As mentioned before Starbucks was already involved in local projects before like the use of coffee grounds for growing mushrooms.

Bubble Coffee and Tea at 8tea5

24-8-2012

Bubble Tea retailer 8tea5 in The Hague has Bubble Coffee on the menu from today on. Entrepreneur and initiator Herdjie Zhou creates the bubble coffee from freshly roasted coffee beans, soy milk and tapioca balls from cassave.

Coffee drinkers ambushed by Orbit Chewing Gum

11-7-2012

Chewing gum brand Orbitz claims to remove coffee stains on teeth. To promote their product, two mascots ran around town to visit people that checked in at local coffee shops via social media. The ambushed people got a chewing gum test kit and were stimulated to mention Orbitz on social media. Check the video.

Public coffee waste mushroom farm

6-7-2012

Seattle had a temporary store front where Olson Kundig Architects and CityLab7 collaborated to create a mushroom farm. The coffee waste from local cafes was used to grow the mushrooms on. A side effect of this urban farm was social cohesion and increased the dialogue about urban farming and its business possibilities.

MEM-COFFEE maker

18-5-2012

The new MEM-COFFEE maker, designed by Studiomem, is a fully automated coffee machine. On the outside of the MEM-COFFEE are no buttons and panels, because they are replaced by a laser-projected multi-touch interface (similar to a bluetooth laser keyboard).

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