Fresh Cup: Coffee Industry Stories and Insights

Take The 2025 Coffee Business Owner Compensation Survey

How much do business owners make? Be part of Fresh Cup’s second Coffee Business Owner Compensation Survey and help clarify how business owners deal with money, benefits, and debt.
by Garrett Oden | June 13, 2025

Latest Stories

The Grocery Expansion Game with Raina Roberts of Partners Coffee

On this episode of the Coffee Think Tank podcast, we dive into Partners Coffee’s grocery and wholesale growth, cracking the code on B2B sales, and the key to building successful partnerships.
by Garrett Oden | June 11, 2025

The C Price Is Changing—Here’s What That Means for Coffee

The C market has always been complex, bu price changes are easy to understand because they’re shown in dollars per pound. But that’s about to change.
by Fionn Pooler | June 10, 2025

Coffee News Club: Week of June 9th

Coffee’s going metric, Colombia pays farmers to plant coffee, and a study says coffee’s good for aging.
by Fionn Pooler | June 9, 2025

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Retail & Commerce

Want a Cafe That Lasts? Focus on Brand Identity

Want Your Cafe To Have a Line out the Door? Make It Worth Waiting For

Convenience Stores Are Upgrading Their Coffee Programs (And Winning New Customers)

How Coffee Roasters Are Offering Formerly Incarcerated People a New Path Forward

Here’s What Baristas Should Know About Filing Their Taxes

Small Cafe? Here’s How To Design a Winning Food Program

Industry Reports

Experts Share Emerging Coffee Industry Trends of 2025

Halfway through 2025, Fresh Cup has asked coffee professionals to weigh in on what has already been a turbulent year for the industry. Here are their predictions for the emerging trends that will define…
by Garrett Oden | June 6, 2025

Five Things We Learned at the 2025 London Coffee Festival

This year’s London Coffee Festival revealed the trends moving forward the coffee industry: bold flavors, creative drinks, plant-based milks, wellness brews, and matcha’s growing dominance.
by Claire Bullen | May 21, 2025

When Will Coffee Soda Have Its Breakthrough?

From classic iced coffee to nitro cold brew, cold coffee drinks are incredibly popular among today’s consumers. But despite favorable forecasts for the wider category, sparkling coffee—which sits at the intersection of soda and…
by Chloé Skye Weiser | March 5, 2025

Resource Library

The Customer Remarketing Playbook for Coffee Shops

A practical playbook for coffee shops and roasters who want to turn customers into regulars.

The Coffee Shop Operations Micro-Guide

In this era of efficiency, mastering back-end operations for coffee shops is critical. Get this resource to protect your profits.

Coffee & Tea Articles

Fruit’s Crashing the Coffee Party

The C Market Just Got Less Confusing Thanks to Futures.Coffee

How World Barista Champ Pete Licata Is Transforming Our Understanding of Caffeine

Can Darjeeling Tea Hope for a Climate-Resilient Future?

Kay Cheon Is the Champion We All Wanted To See Win

Jaymie Lao Is LA Coffee’s Biggest Fan

Trending Articles

What is Cascara? An Overview of Coffee Cherry Tea

by Brenna Ciummo | May 20, 2014

Coffee News Club: Week of May 19th

by Fionn Pooler | May 19, 2025

Coffee News Club: Week of May 12th

by Fionn Pooler | May 12, 2025

The SCA’s Q Program Takeover Leaves the Coffee Industry Divided

by Fionn Pooler | May 23, 2025