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Coffee and tea
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Coffee-to-Cocktails Slipstream Opens Second DC Location
Based in Washington, D.C., Slipstream is a hybrid concept. In the morning, the operation offers coffee and breakfast items like frittatas and yogurt with granola. In the evening, it serves craft cocktails along with sandwiches, salads and small bites.
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Georgetown Peet’s Marries History and Modernity
When Peet’s Coffee & Teadecided to open a new unit in Washington, D.C.’s colonial Georgetown neighborhood, the restaurant’s design had to fit both the historic building and the expectations of the community.
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Starbucks to Open Largest Reserve Roastery in Chicago
Starbucks Coffee Company announced the opening of its third Reserve Roastery in the U.S., on Chicago’s tourist-heavy Magnificent Mile at the corner of North Michigan Ave. and Erie Street in 2019. It will be the largest location yet for the coffee behemoth.
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DC’s New Beaux-Arts Coffee Shop
Growing chains usually seek to build on previous successes — in both menu and in design. Swing’s Coffee Roasters prefers each location be as unique as the neighborhood in which it resides.
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illy Caffe Opens Flagship in San Francisco
Italy-based illy coffee company opened two of its illy Caffè units in San Francisco. The company now operates seven illy Caffè units in San Francisco, including its new flagship location in the city’s historic Mills Building.
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10 Inspiring Coffee & Tea Shop Designs
A roundup of some of our favorite café designs from across the globe, including a yarn shop and tea house in Paris, a kitschy camera-themed café in Seoul, a bakery-café that feels like a museum of modern art in Kiev and more.
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Beverage Bonanza: Dive Into Coffee & Tea
In the first in a series, rd+d takes a deep dive into beverage-focused concepts.
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Beverage Bonanza Case Study: Samovar Reads the Tea Leaves
Jesse Jacobs opened his first Samovar Tea Lounge in San Francisco 14 years ago, sensing that the time was right to introduce a tea-focused concept in the wake of the specialty coffee boom. He now operates two locations.
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Shoney’s Unveils New Prototype
Shoney’s, the Nashville-based chain founded in 1947 and operating in 16 states, will unveil its new design prototype in early 2017 at its Donelson, Tenn., location.
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Fin & Pearl Opens in Nashville
One of Nashville’s top restaurateurs, Tom Morales of TomKats Hospitality, open his latest, Fin & Pearl, this month in The Gulch neighborhood of Nashville.
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Checkers & Rally's New Prototype Plans
QSR hamburger concept Checkers & Rally’s announced its Model 4.0 growth strategy that includes three design plans for free-standing locations, a value-engineered on-site plan, a new modular building and a container building using reclaimed shipping containers as structural supports.
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Kitchen Incubators
Gone are the communal commissaries or simple shared kitchens of years past. They have been replaced by fully integrated, meticulously designed kitchen incubators. In these spaces, small food businesses and professionals can work side by side with kitchen ownership, sharing best practices, sparking new ideas, pooling resources and knowledge as well as supplies, marketing and more. These incubators continue to become
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California Pizza Kitchen Opens New Flagship in Las Vegas
CPK opened a new flagship Las Vegas restaurant at The Park, MGM’s outdoor dining and entertainment district on the Strip. Located between New York-New York and Monte Carlo resorts, CPK at The Park showcases a breezy, natural space with exclusive new food and beverage items.
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International Coffee Chain Ogawa Debuts in U.S.
Ogawa Coffee, a Kyoto, Japan-based chain, opened its first U.S. location in Boston.
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Verve Coffee Roasters Expands to SoCal
Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Verve Coffee Roasters recently opened its first Southern California café in downtown Los Angeles’ Fashion District. The brand partnered with Los Angeles-based cold-pressed juice company Juice Served Here on the 1,600-square-foot café, which is the first of four Verve units slated to open in the Los Angeles market over the next year. The company also operates three
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Peet’s Coffee & Tea Opens New Chicago Flagship Store
Peet’s Coffee & Tea in late January celebrated the grand opening of its new flagship store in the iconic Wrigley Building at 400 North Michigan Avenue. The store showcases the company’s new craft-focused contemporary design prototype while integrating the history and character of the building.
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Now Brewing: Starbucks Reserve Roastery & Tasting Room
Starbucks Coffee Company has opened the doors to its first Starbucks Reserve Roastery & Tasting Room in Seattle. The new concept is dedicated to roasting, coffee education and increasing availability of the company’s small-lot Reserve coffees, all of which will be roasted in this facility.
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Peet’s Coffee & Tea Crafts a Fresh Look at San Francisco Flagship
Peet's Coffee & Tea is one of those brands that nurture strong emotional connections with their fans — in the case of Peet's, called Peetnicks. It's quirky, quality-focused, eclectic and has always had decidedly nonchain sensibilities.