The United States has long been at the centre of the global coffee industry. But as policies shift under the Trump administration, that dominance is under threat.
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Unbranded Starbucks stores divided opinion back in the 2000s, and there are echoes in modern corporate-backed specialty companies like Intelligentsia and Blue Bottle.
