Denver’s Amethyst Coffee closed in 2022, two years after raising prices to better compensate staff. But that doesn’t mean the project was a failure—in fact, it still offers lessons for the industry today.
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Iced Americanos are so popular in Korea that they’ve coined their own proverb: “Even if I freeze to death, iced Americano!” Plus, Kentucky is the focus of the US Department of Labor’s efforts to recover back wages for baristas, and coffee might lower your blood pressure. Or it might not. Hard to say.
Read the whole Roundup over at Fresh Cup Magazine:
I’ll be back with another full-length piece this Friday, but until then it’s goodbye from this week’s guest star Jun, who doesn’t seem to be happy with the Michigan weather:
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