Chatbots telling us what we want. Robots making our coffee. Baristas reduced to smiling servers. If Starbucks and other brands get their way, this is the future: a frictionless, interactionless, lifeless coffee experience.
An investigation finds child labor on Rainforest Alliance-certified coffee farms in Mexico, former executives at Luckin Coffee are trying their luck (sorry) with a new venture, and more evidence that takeaway coffee cups leach microplastics.
I'm a coffee writer and creator of The Pourover. Based in Scotland, I have over a decade of experience in the specialty coffee industry. Ask me about coffeewashing. It's pronounced Fin (he/him)
