Extra strong coffee on Monday morning
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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).