https://dailycoffeenews.com/author/jenrobertsdcn/ Business news for specialty coffee professionals Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:51:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/19/the-sepia-coffee-project-offers-a-guiding-light-in-metro-detroit/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:54:04 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175523 When Martell Mason returned to metro Detroit in 2020, he found a more hopeful place than the one he’d left 20 years earlier. Yet when he zoomed in on his...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/27/three-questions-with-rwandan-coffee-expert-laetitia-mukandahiro/ Mon, 27 Nov 2023 14:08:31 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=174895 In a sunny yellow room with a large coffee taster’s flavor wheel on one wall and a branded jute bag on the opposite wall, Laetitia Mukandahiro and Uzziel Habimana of...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/22/three-questions-with-aimerance-merveille-of-semilla-coffee/ Wed, 22 Nov 2023 12:53:19 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=174654 Aimerance Merveille can recall childhood days in the Democratic Republic of Congo — wearing her favorite red floral dress, watching her brothers play soccer, daydreaming.  Yet while other children were...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/20/with-media-and-marketplace-startup-u3-coffee-builds-consumer-connections/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 14:24:40 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=174819 A Chicago-area coffee company called U3 Coffee launched this month with ambitious plans to connect consumers more deeply to the coffees in their daily cups.  Coming out of the gate...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/10/12/three-questions-with-muna-mohammed-of-canadas-eight50-coffee/ https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/10/12/three-questions-with-muna-mohammed-of-canadas-eight50-coffee/#comments Thu, 12 Oct 2023 13:55:41 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=173993 Born in Ethiopia as the granddaughter of a coffee farmer but raised mainly in Canada, Eight50 Coffee Founder Muna Mohammed had a profound experience when seeing coffee’s origins for the...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/10/12/three-questions-with-muna-mohammed-of-canadas-eight50-coffee/feed/ 1 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/09/20/three-questions-with-cydni-patterson-of-sweet-finish/ https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/09/20/three-questions-with-cydni-patterson-of-sweet-finish/#comments Wed, 20 Sep 2023 15:58:28 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=173461 With manicured nails, sparkling wit and sometimes even a tank top with her face printed on it, Cydni Patterson packs an undeniable amount of charisma into her social media posts....]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/09/20/three-questions-with-cydni-patterson-of-sweet-finish/feed/ 1 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/08/28/three-questions-with-maria-andree-negreros-de-duran-of-artista-de-cafe-in-guatemala/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 13:28:39 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=172469 When María Andreé Negreros de Durán was creating Artista de Café, her coffee shop concept in Antigua, Guatemala, she envisioned a space that would honor coffee, not just serve it. ...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/07/10/three-questions-with-gloria-montenegro-of-la-cafeotheque-in-paris/ https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/07/10/three-questions-with-gloria-montenegro-of-la-cafeotheque-in-paris/#comments Mon, 10 Jul 2023 15:36:30 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=171414 La Caféothèque is widely regarded as the mother of all craft coffee shops in Paris, France. Opened by native Guatemalan Gloria Montenegro in 2005, the shop paved the way for the...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/07/10/three-questions-with-gloria-montenegro-of-la-cafeotheque-in-paris/feed/ 1 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/06/22/three-questions-with-ella-fatima-mcelroy-of-clove-coffee-shop-in-paris/ Thu, 22 Jun 2023 13:55:20 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=171003 On Rue Chappe, just before a steep ascent to Sacré Coeur in the Montmartre district in Paris, sits one of the city’s newest coffee spots, Clove Coffee Shop (Instagram). Since...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/05/17/in-st-louis-blueprint-coffee-addresses-the-us-gun-violence-epidemic/ https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/05/17/in-st-louis-blueprint-coffee-addresses-the-us-gun-violence-epidemic/#comments Wed, 17 May 2023 18:47:58 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=170452 Blueprint Coffee was entering its second year of business in St. Louis, Missouri, when unarmed teenager Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, just a...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/05/17/in-st-louis-blueprint-coffee-addresses-the-us-gun-violence-epidemic/feed/ 11