Tea & Coffee 02/00 - Quality and Variety in Restaurant Coffee Service (#)

  „Trends to follow - and encourage - include the beaten horse of specialty coffee being marketed and enjoyed more like fine wine. Not only are restaurants continuing to serve a wider variety of beverages - lattes, cappuccinos, espressos, brewed coffees, and other signature coffee beverages - they are beginning to offer a selection of origins. The day may come when it is commonplace to have one’s waitperson recommend a specific coffee to complement a dinner or dessert, such as certain wines are sold on the suggestion that they pair well with particular dishes or specials of the day.“

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Tea & Coffee 06/03 - U.S. Specialty Tea: Another False Start or Is It Real This Time?

  „But all that is changing now, and it’s probably not a false alarm this time, coffee houses are selling more and more tea and tea-based beverages, they are expanding their tea lines and selling more expensive teas. Tea, from green to black, has been getting great notices on its health-giving attributes and people have been reading these headlines and basing buying decisions on them. There are well over 1,000 tea salons in the U.S. today, and according to one person interviewed for this article the number is probably closer to 1,500.“

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Tea & Coffee 05/00 - Question of the Month

  „As an East Coast chai manufacturer, we have seen tremendous growth in Pacific Chai over the last few years, mostly in the specialty coffee arena. More recently, strong interest has developed in the restaurant, grocery, and office coffee markets. Powdered products like ours permit a variety of packaging, making chai marketable in a broad range of retail environments. We expect strong growth to continue as more consumers discover the unique taste of chai.“

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Tea & Coffee 12/03 - Gourmet Restaurant, Gourmet Tea

  „Although it is coffee that still receives the bulk of the press concerning consumer awareness of specialty beverages, tea has been quietly following on its heels in recent years. Coffee shops have increased their inventory of specialty and gourmet teas, including loose teas. Supermarket aisles are filling up with more colorful (and more expensive) containers of flavored tea. Ready-to drink iced tea beverages’ labels are now touting more than just the very generic “tea”: rooibus, green tea, and other specialty iced beverages are coming out on the market en force, and are growing in popularity.“

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Tea & Coffee 11/00 - World News

  „The Board, which prepared a Rs300m ($6.92m) domestic market promotion plan to popularize coffee drinking, hopes to secure partial funding from the Amsterdam-based Common Fund of Commodities.“

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Tea & Coffee 01/00 - Tea International

  „The significance of the Ready-to-Drink teas on the overall health of the U.S. tea industry cannot be overemphasized. For the very first time, one of the greatest concerns of U.S. consumers was addressed and eliminated -- namely the relative inconvenience of drinking tea versus soft drinks and other similar beverages. Not only did it make tea consumption more convenient and available for current consumers, but it also introduced tea to a great many new consumers who, prior to the advent of RTD teas, were not part of the target audience.“

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