Fresh Cup: Coffee Industry Stories and Insights

There Are Lines Out the Door at New Luckin Flagship Store

✉️ This story was featured in this week’s Coffee News Club👋 Get the Coffee News Club newsletter in your inbox weekly—sign up. Luckin Coffee, known for its small stores and low-cost beverages, is branching out.…
by Fionn Pooler | February 17, 2026

Latest Stories

Coffee News Club: Week of February 16

Luckin Coffee goes big with its new flagship store. Plus, the industry mourns two California coffee-farming pioneers, and coffee could lower your risk of dementia.
by Fionn Pooler | February 16, 2026

California Coffee Farming Pioneers Jay and Kristen Ruskey Have Died

Jay and Kristen Ruskey, known for their innovative work in California’s coffee-growing movement, have died. The couple, who owned Good Land Organics and Frinj Coffee, died on Feb. 8 in what was described as…
by Fionn Pooler | February 14, 2026

How Early-Modern Islamic World Coffeehouses Shaped Contemporary Cafe Culture

More than a century before Parisian salons or London’s penny universities, coffeehouses in Mecca, Istanbul, and Isfahan transformed urban life across Southwest Asia, sparking new forms of sociability and laying the foundations of contemporary…
by Sohel Sarkar | February 13, 2026

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Retail & Commerce

“You Have This Point of Leverage”: Brett Donahue on Sourcing and Roasting at Scale with Counter Culture Coffee

How Specialty Cafes Are Rethinking Drip Coffee

Nestlé May Sell Blue Bottle Coffee. What Does That Mean for the Chain’s Union?

How Coffee Shops Are Thriving by Sharing Space With Other Businesses

How India’s Specialty Coffee Industry Is Coming of Age

These Coffee Shops Are Winning With Mocktails: Here’s How (With Recipes)

Resource Library

The AI Playbook for Coffee Shop Operators

Coffee shop operators share how they’re using AI for menu insights, faster marketing, and smarter operations.

Live Session Replay: Modern Tech Stacks for Growing Roasters and Coffee Shops

We talked about the evolving coffee tech stack ecosystem, and how roasters and cafes can operate efficiently and smartly with their tech decisions, with Cropster and Odeko.

Industry Reports

ColdPerk’s Café 2 Brewer Brings Espresso-Strength Concentrate to Cafes in Minutes

This article is sponsored by our partner, ColdPerk. Cold brew coffee is extremely popular, but making it can be time-consuming. Cold brew generally takes hours—even a whole day—to make, either by steeping ground coffee…
by Garrett Oden | January 30, 2026

Coffee Tech Stacks: Creature Coffee Powers 25+ Carts With These Tools

Creature Coffee Co started as a single cart. Today, software helps its team operate 25+ coffee carts across multiple cities.
by Anne Mercer | January 23, 2026

Former Cart Owner Launches Virtual Summit for Coffee Businesses

Coffee Business Connection, a new events company, will host its first formal event, called CBC Live, on January 2-3, 2026. The two-day online event brings together over 16 industry speakers to address the practical…
by Garrett Oden | December 26, 2025

Coffee & Tea Articles

Cxffeeblack Opens New Memphis Headquarters

How Xpresso in South Africa Makes Coffee Affordable for All

When Did Everyone Become A Coffee Consultant?

Can Coffee Help Reforest the Amazon? Indigenous Barista Celesty Suruí Thinks So

Looking Back at 25 Years of the World Barista Championship

Hotels Are Upping Their Coffee Game—Here’s How

Must-Reads From The Coffee Shop Handbook

The Coffee Shop Guide To Metrics and KPIs

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The Coffee Marketing Pyramid

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The Modern Coffee Shop Tech Stack

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by Garrett Oden | September 4, 2024