St. John's Coffee: A Short Story

There was a quiet buzz in the college's premier coffee spot, the rather pretentious faux-boutique StellarGrounds Coffee. The college grounds themselves were alive with activity as always, and it was simmering under the surface with young activists on both sides of the political debate engaged and energized by the process taking place around them. You couldn't walk around a single corner on campus without coming face to face with a blue or red poster emblazoned with the faces of the political leviathans on the big ticket. Not everyone had an opinion, but a small minority on either side seemed to make up for the rest, they shared their thoughts rather vociferously with anyone who would listen, especially those who didn't agree with them. Thankfully there was not too much disagreement in the air at StellarGrounds, the college coffee place only tended to lean in one direction, and that was unwaveringly left!

Entering my local Tim Horton’s coffee shop on a chilly November morning my attention made eye contact with the smiling, friendly server who greeted me, "Good Morning Sir, what can I get you today?" Basking in the fresh aromatic bouquet floral, fruit-like roast coffee, my selection became so obvious to me, “ a large, double-double of your dark roast coffee please.” My senses of inner warmth and comfort were triggered by the anticipation of sipping that very brew.

Tim’s Coffee Shop is a small coffee shop which is in Sunnydale, Illinois. The building is in the middle of the city, so will be able to attract more consumers. The vision of the Tim’s Coffee Shop is to be ‘Establish Tim’s one of the best coffee shop experience, it will do this by focusing on providing quality, service, and value to all its customers’. The shop needs to focus on different aspects such as financial aspect, human resource, and marketing aspect to conduct its business effectively and efficiently.

While there are many decent places to get a chai around Boston, I would highly recommend going to Boston Common Coffee for your chai tea needs. While it may be slightly out of they way for students not living in Paramount, it’s long hours, decent pricing, and incredible drinks, makes it the place to go when you need your chai latte fix. I promise that you won’t be disappointed. If you can’t get to Boston Common Coffee, you will be happy with Cafe Nero or Thinking Cup, but whatever you do don’t go to Einstein Bros. Now everyone drink up those chai lattes. Enjoy!

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction". These were the famous words were used by Isaac Newton to describe his third law of physics but, these words can also rather effectively describe a pattern seen in big history. That pattern is that every event, every change, every action, has reprocutions or in more simple terms, every cause has an effect. The readings films and other resources from the course so far have examplified this phonomonon and they have showed that by using this reasoning, that every cause has an effect, we can better predict the outcomes of our actions and by examining the world identifying causes and their effects. and by recognizing these cause and effect patterns we can make better decisions and avoid repeating past mistakes.

This is a summary of the long and celebrated history of the 2nd most traded commodity in the world (oil being the first). It is regarded by many as one of the most complex beverage on Earth. Here are a few fun facts about coffee:

Reading another’s life experiences is like accidentally picking up a stranger’s coffee at Starbucks. It’s unexpected and perhaps delightful experiencing and tasting another’s caffeinated concoction. In the case of my memoir, it was bland coffee so I spat it out and asked for a new drink. However, receiving sips of my peers’ selected memoirs was eye-opening and exhilarating, almost like drinking a pumpkin spice latte for the first time. It was so entertaining and engaging that I plan on ordering some of my peer’s choice of coffee (and read a few of the memoirs my peers presented).

It was Christmas break, everyone was gone for the holidays except a few stragglers whose family lived too far away, were hanging around to keep working or just didn't have much else that was better to do.I fell into all those categories, luxuriating in the slacker pleasures of dreary Rhode Island in late December. I felt lonesome strolling in downtown Providence surrounded by massive concrete structures, corporate buildings and hotels. I was shivering and the salt and slush were sticking to the soles of my boots making a crunching noise with every step i took on the pavement. I walked into my favorite coffee shop, Bolt Coffee, to sit down and grab a cup of coffee in an attempt to escape the chilly winter air. The small coffee shop is located

In this coffee shop industry there are many competitive big and small out there but the one route to take when starting a business is to plan ahead. Putting the four P components of the marketing mix product, price, place and promotion will help get your company it needs to be.

Carole Roy, the co-owner of the Café had spent eight years in California before her whole family moving back to Sudbury. She was missing the taste of California coffee but could not find the right beans in any shop. She decided to contact the coffee farmers by herself, roast and make her own coffee at home. “It was all started in my basement,” she said. There is no genius in the world, when people just stared to do something that they barely know before. Carole was self-trained on roasting and barista. “You have no idea how much beans I have burn while I am learning

Before leaving home for Rutgers, I was a fry cook at a burger restaurant. The usual pace was slightly overwhelming and all my co-workers had 2+ years of experience with the company. One night, about two months after I started working there, it was so incredibly busy that the line of customers measured out the door. As I frantically tossed food into hot grease, I fumbled with a box of jalapeño poppers and dropped all of them on the floor. The cashiers, general manager and head cook all rolled their eyes at me and shuffled past the mess. As I started to pick them up to throw them away, I noticed someone else’s hand helping. I looked up inquisitively and found Ralph Flannery’s eyes, the owner of the restaurant, who owned a handful of the same restaurant chain in several other locations. After we cleaned up, he asked me to go to his office when things calmed down. I went to his office expecting to turn in my name tag. Ralph looked calm and cheery, which put me at a wearisome ease. He started by explaining how cheap and worthless a box of jalapeño poppers were to him. Then Ralph transitioned to how expensive but valuable his employees were and finished by personalizing it with how important I am to him and his company’s success. I was left speechless because this was a new experience to me. I sat there curious about what he had to say next. He said to me, “Jacob, what if I invest in you? Would you invest in me? How about I give you a fifty-cent raise right now… I

With an increase of Arabica prices after the Brazilian frost in 1997, roasting companies experimented with steam cleaning techniques to hide any bitter flavoring of Robusta when mixing with Arabica. These roasters were also educating themselves on how to use lower quality grades of coffee mixes; thus providing use for previously discarded beans to be sold to roasters who demanded a lower quality beans.

Coffee has a very mysterious history. There are several legends about who discovered it, but no one is completely sure who discovered it. Many historians disagree on where and when it spread, but there are some interesting theories. The main questions about coffee are where did it come from, where did it go, who tried to stop it, who helped it, how it is grown and harvested, and pricing.

Every morning in the United States about 240 billion ounces of coffee are consumed (“Coffee by the Number”). This immense amount of coffee fuels one of the most productive workforces in the world and has become a staple to the modern American diet. Despite being consumed mostly by North Americans and Europeans, coffee’s origins go back to Africa and it’s cultivation to Latin America. Coffee is one of the most interesting and prevalent commodities in the world and merits an analysis of its commodity chain.

You had called me that week on Saturday morning and asked me if I was available for coffee. I said yes, absolutely yes. I buttoned up my bleached denim jeans, slipped into my white converse, and put on a white Hollister polo. I combed my hair and told my mothers that my friends had invited me to go to an early lunch. They trusted Xienna and everyone else because they saw how much of my time and myself I invested in them. There were Xienna, the sly Fashionista with a stiletto for a tongue, Anika, the thespian, who ironically reproached Shakespeare for being too hackneyed; Ezra, the musician, who often had us and his other friends over on Friday nights to entertain us, and Greg, a Senior, who was the writer, like me. My mothers approved of him very much because of his maturity and scholarly intelligence. I will admit, he was painstakingly critical and pretentious at times, but whenever a friend invoked his counsel, he would attend to them. Even though Greg had his virtues, I just wish some people did not possess certain qualities that tainted their personality. But I had to keep in mind that we were all children of Eden, born inextricably flawed.