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

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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  „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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