Starbucks is heading to Central Europe

Starbucks, company behind the world’s largest coffee serving chain is on the best way to step into new business in Central Europe. Starbucks and company AmRest, which is active in Poland, Hungary and in Czech republic made a deal to open new Starbucks coffee shops in near future.
There is about 13,000 coffee stores all over [...]

Starbucks Maps: How to find nearest Starbucks

There are plenty of services that offers interactive maps of Starbucks all over the world. You just enter your zip code and hundreds of Starbucks popup next to you.
Starbucks site offers this feature in a more simplified way, only non interactive map. Booring. In association with Google Maps guys at Findbyclick made ultimate Starbucks Density [...]

Making Iced Coffee

If you are a human being reading this article then you have tasted and know what iced coffee is. But iced coffee is not what you are thinking it is. You are perhaps thinking that after making a hot cup of coffee, bringing the decoction down to room temperature, and then chilling it in the [...]

Espresso Coffee Cups

Up until 1992 all espresso coffee cups could only purchased in either white or with a company logo upon them. It was then the decision of Illy Caffe that they would combine art with espresso and they commissioned Matteo Thun to help design their first espresso cup. The design is considered by the owner of [...]

America’s Best Coffee School

The American Barista & Coffee School [ABC's] is the first and only professional school in the U.S. devoted to domestic and international specialty coffee business education and hands-on barista training. No other coffee school can match the scope of ABC’s educational and retail success-building curriculum.
If you’re looking to some serious study of coffee making, try [...]

Starbucks Frappuccino recipe

2 shots (3 oz.) espresso
1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 1/2 cups low-fat milk
1 Tbls. pectin OR 1 tsp. pectin + 1 tsp. arrowroot

-Stir sugar into espresso. Cool mixture.
-Stir milk and pectin into espresso mixture until pectin is dissolved.
-Fill a glass with ice and either serve mixture over ice, or pour glass contents into blender and blend [...]