Robot Baristas as Strikebreakers
Companies are turning to automation as a tool to fight back against industrial action. In coffee, that role could well be played by robot baristas—in fact, it sort of already has.
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One week, there’s no coffee news. The next, too many articles to fit into one Roundup. The big stories
Hello and welcome to yet another edition of the Coffee News Roundup. Not a huge number of stories in the
Hello and welcome to another week’s end, and therefore another Coffee News Roundup. In the wider world, it’s
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Welcome to another edition of the Coffee News Roundup, this week brought to you by heat-induced fatigue. While my frail
Hello and welcome to another Coffee News Roundup. Over the next little while, I’m going to be transitioning the
Hello and welcome to another Coffee News Roundup. Today is Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the day in 1865 when word
Welcome to The Pourover by me, Fionn Pooler. Coffee roaster based in the Scottish Highlands who also writes about coffee
Hello and welcome to another edition of the Coffee News Roundup. Let’s get right to, it shall we? Sprudge’
Like the title says. There are more important things going on in the world. The specialty coffee industry itself has
I don’t really know where to start this week. Writing about coffee seems absurd in the current moment. But
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