https://dailycoffeenews.com/category/cafe/by-region/northwest/ Business news for specialty coffee professionals Wed, 27 Dec 2023 15:54:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/26/ten-new-coffee-shops-along-the-west-coast/ Tue, 26 Dec 2023 15:41:34 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175362 2023 was an exciting year for specialty coffee on the West Coast, with no shortage of intrepid new cafe designs and global coffee connections made on hyper-local levels.  While many...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/20/portlands-futura-coffee-roasters-brings-regenerative-focus-to-east-coast/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 15:13:21 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175483 With direct ties to Colombian specialty coffee and a proactive economic approach to environmental stewardship, Oregon-based Futura Coffee Roasters has expanded to the east coast. The growing Futura leadership team...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/08/starbucks-asks-for-new-years-resolution-to-reboot-union-talks/ Fri, 08 Dec 2023 19:57:55 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175328 Following months of legal posturing from parties on both sides of the Starbucks unionization push, the coffee giant today sent a letter to the union organizer asking for a reboot...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/02/spella-caffe-makes-triumphant-return-to-downtown-portland/ Thu, 02 Nov 2023 14:18:50 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=174422 An Italian-style coffee institution in the new world coffee hub of Portland, Oregon, Spella Caffè has returned to its downtown roots with the opening of a new flagship manual lever...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/10/19/seattles-cafe-avole-opens-inside-the-ethiopian-community-center/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:10:07 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=173656 The second retail location of Ethiopia-focused and Seattle-based roasting company Cafe Avole (IG) recently opened on the ground floor of Ethiopian Village, an apartment building and expanded wing of the...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/08/02/roaster-retailers-kaldis-coffee-and-dancing-goats-coffee-merge/ Wed, 02 Aug 2023 15:12:30 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=172631 St. Louis, Missouri-based Kaldi’s Coffee and Washington State/Atlanta-based Dancing Goats Coffee (formerly also known as Batdorf & Bronson) have merged, Kaldi’s announced this week. The deal brings together two roasting...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/07/19/portland-coffee-legend-jim-roberts-of-coffee-people-dies/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:15:33 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=172192 Oregon coffee pioneer Jim Roberts, the co-founder of the iconic chain Coffee People who is often credited with opening coffee’s first drive-through, died Monday. He was 74. “There’s a hole...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/07/11/fonte-coffee-roaster-raises-the-bar-in-downtown-seattle/ Tue, 11 Jul 2023 15:54:17 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=171713 After more than three decades of providing freshly roasted coffees to cafe and restaurant bars throughout the United States, Seattle roasting outfit Fonté Coffee Roaster has significantly raised its own...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/06/22/juniors-expands-in-portland-releases-cost-of-production-template/ Thu, 22 Jun 2023 13:15:32 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=171269 Portland, Oregon-based roasting company Junior’s Roasted Coffee (JRC) has published its in-house tools used to ascertain green coffee producers’ costs of production. The public sharing is intended to support more...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/05/24/spokane-chain-wake-up-call-moves-into-tri-cities-through-black-rock-acquisitions/ Wed, 24 May 2023 18:15:26 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=170671 Spokane, Washington-based coffee chain Wake Up Call is now echoing throughout the state’s Tri-Cities region through the acquisition of more than a dozen Black Rock Coffee Bar locations. Portland, Oregon-based...]]>