For paid subscribers: Coffee is increasingly used to burnish the United Arab Emirates’ international image. Now it is being supercharged by merging with the popularity of the Dubai chocolate trend.
This week on the Coffee News Roundup: the big US chains are doing fine, a new tool to encourage more equitable coffee buying, and Starbucks is once again extending benefits—as long as you’re not in the union.
Read about all this and a fairly odd coffee-health study in Fresh Cup Magazine:
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