For paid subscribers: The coffee industry is embracing automation, and consumers increasingly demand convenience and speed. Me? I’m happy to wait for my coffee to be made by a human.
Lucia Bawot’s initiative has helped more than 100 women coffee farmers in Colombia access mental health support. The programme’s success offers a blueprint for the wider coffee industry.
Alaska Airlines has switched its coffee supplier from Starbucks to Stumptown Coffee, with the press release really leaning into how hard they worked to create a coffee that tastes good in a pressurized container at altitude.
Your La Marzocco espresso machine can now talk to your Mahlkönig coffee grinder and make automated grind adjustments in real time. Well, so long as you have very specific models from both manufacturers.
A National Labor Relations Board judge ruled that former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz illegally threatened a union supporter during a “listening tour” in 2022. Schultz’ comment that the barista should “go work for another company” amounted to “a warning that protected pro-union speech was not compatible with employment at Starbucks,” according to Reuters.
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