Daily Coffee News by Roast Magazine » Craft/Operations

Portland, Oregon-area coffee professionals Ryan Willbur and Laila Ghambari have purchased the progressive and influential sibling coffee businesses, Guilder and Junior’s Roasted Coffee. The mar...

https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/04/26/ryan-wilbur-and-laila-ghambari-buy-portlands-guilder-and-juniors-roasted-coffee/

At its first brick-and-mortar retail location in Mesa, Arizona, Empower Coffee Roasters is balancing a business model that offers high-quality coffee while also supporting and inspiring girls and...

https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/04/25/empower-coffee-roasters-starts-off-strong-in-mesa-arizona/

Chinese coffee roasting and retail giant Luckin Coffee this week opened a massive $120 million roasting plant in Kunshan. Located between the cities of Shanghai and Suzhou, the new roastery...

https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/04/24/luckin-coffee-opens-chinas-largest-coffee-roastery/

While robot baristas tend to get a lot of attention, mechanical automation and artificial intelligence may be making faster inroads to the coffee industry through roasting equipment. Many of the....

https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/04/24/from-the-2024-sca-expo-new-professional-roasting-equipment/

Global coffee giant Nespresso has appointed Philipp Navratil CEO. He replaces Guillaume Le Cunff as the chief executive of the Nestlé-owned company, while Le Cunff is slated to become CEO...

https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/04/23/nestle-names-philipp-navratil-ceo-of-nespresso/

Popular New York-based specialty coffee chain Bluestone Lane is placing a bet on the emerging coffee-free coffee movement, partnering with Seattle-based startup Atomo for “beanless espresso” ...

https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/04/18/atomo-beanless-espresso-drinks-are-coming-to-bluestone-lane/

The co-founders of Portland, Oregon-based craft brewery Steeplejack Brewing have plunged headlong into coffee with the Harder Day Coffee Company. Founded by Dustin Harder and Brody Day, the new c...

https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/04/18/harder-day-coffee-is-making-it-look-easy-in-portland/

San Francisco-born roaster and retailer Sightglass Coffee has named former Starbucks national sales executive Sharon Healy as CEO. Healy, who most recently held multiple sales executive positions...

https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/04/18/sfs-sightglass-coffee-names-new-ceo-as-founders-step-down/

A potentially novel tool designed to identify bias in coffee evaluation may soon be in the works: a tasting helmet. Researchers in Italy say they have demonstrated the feasibility of...

https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/04/17/this-headgear-might-help-you-understand-your-feelings-about-coffee/

The mother-daughter team of Maureen and Chloe Woods has brought the wide world of specialty coffee home to the small town of Merrill, Michigan, with the opening of their roastery...

https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/04/16/in-michigan-mo-cocos-rural-roasts-offers-full-city-and-much-more/