Archive for December, 2008

Thruway plazas offer free coffee, tea on New Year’s Eve, Day (WSYR 9 Syracuse)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Thruway travelers can get free coffee or tea at any of the highway system's more than two dozen travel plazas on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

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Thruway plazas offer free coffee, tea on New Year's Eve, Day (WSYR 9 Syracuse)

Have a coffee, learn English for free (Vietnam Net)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

VietNamNet Bridge - Master Cup, a coffee shop in Ho Chi Minh City that doubles up as an impromptu English language class, is becoming increasingly popular among young Vietnamese.

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Have a coffee, learn English for free (Vietnam Net)

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. Extends Agreement with McDonald’s® to Offer Newman’s Own® Organics Coffee in New … (Finanzen.net)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) has extended its agreement with McDonald’s USA, ...

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ICE Coffee Review: Fund Buying Supports Sharp Rally (INO News)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

ICE Futures U.S. coffee futures ended Wednesday's lightly traded pre-holiday session at sharply higher levels, amid a flurry of pre-2009 fund buying, which triggered buy-stops in the March contract above the $1.1000 level, traders said.

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City Dock Coffee gets new owners (The Capital)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

New owners are taking over City Dock Coffee, a local chain of coffee shops that also supplies the Naval Academy and Anne Arundel Community College. From left, new owners Grover Gedney and Karen Johnson-Gedney raise a coffee cup with old owners Kerry Duffy Doyle and her brother, Stephen Duffy.

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City Dock Coffee gets new owners (The Capital)

Free coffee and tea on Thruway (The Observer-Dispatch)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Drivers on the New York State Thruway can get free coffee and tea New Year's Eve and New Year's morning.

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Free coffee and tea on Thruway (The Observer-Dispatch)

Coffee next in line as biofuel source (Environmental News Network)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Coffee grounds - currently wasted or used as garden compost - could become a cheap and environmentally friendly source of biodiesel and fuel pellets, says a study. Spent coffee grounds contain 11-20 per cent oil, depending on their type. "This is competitive with other major biodiesel feedstocks such as rapeseed oil (37—50 per cent), palm oil 20 per cent, and soybean oil 20 per cent," say ...

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Coffee next in line as biofuel source (Environmental News Network)

‘Cheers’ for the Coffee Set Changes Hands in Annapolis (Washington Post)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

For years, folks about town have called it the "Cheers" of Annapolis, but few knew that the image of that iconic television show was written into the employee handbook.

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Presidential coffee reflects Obama’s heritage (Honolulu Advertiser)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

The owners of Kona Joe Coffee, who grow their award-winning beans on the slopes of Hualalai in South Kona, have produced a special "Barack. O Blend" coffee to honor the Hawai'i-born president-elect.

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7-Eleven has free coffee (The Herald News)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Revelers who may be celebrating the New Year with their first glass of real "bubbly" could have been drinking something quite different when 7-Eleven stores first introduced their free New Year's coffee tradition in 1987-88 ... perhaps a baby bottle.

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7-Eleven has free coffee (The Herald News)