clipped from dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com
Mark Prince, who runs coffeegeek.com, explained his interpretation of the move this way: Starbucks bought Coffee Equipment “to basically take complete ownership of the words ‘fresh brewed’ and ‘fresh coffee’ away from their chief rivals — Dunkin Donuts and
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clipped from dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.comYesterday, when I spoke to a representative of the Coffee Equipment Company, which makes the Clover brewing machine, she confirmed that CloverNet, the technology that connects Clover users, would no longer be available to anyone other than Starbucks, C.E.C.’s new owner.Some cafe owners say Starbucks’ purchase of the company that makes the Clover
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From The Economist print edition
A new machine could reshape the speciality-coffee business
NEAR the hard-working espresso machine at Ritual Coffee Roasters, a café in San Francisco, sits a stainless-steel box about the size of a desktop computer. This box, the Clover, produces a cup of coffee with a spectacle of streaming water, whirring motors and an ingenious inverse plunger. Zander Nosler,
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