Is It Time to Raise Your Prices?
Coffee shops face a challenge: should they absorb the rising cost of goods or pass along costs to the customer? Here’s how business owners decide when to increase menu prices.
Is Your Café Kid Friendly?
Menus, play areas, booster chairs, and a welcoming attitude show your kid-friendly colors.
The Top 10 Most-Read Fresh Cup Articles of 2022
We used a "fancy" math equation to determine the most popular Fresh Cup stories of 2022.
The Biggest News Stories of 2022
Global geopolitics, a surging coffee labor movement, and a whole lot of greenwashing: welcome to the Fresh Cup 2022 Year in Review.
How To Train Efficiency Effectively
Efficiency is an elusive skill, but necessary to the wellbeing of any cafe. The following six tips will help you train baristas to be as efficient as possible.
Thermal Products Are Heating Up the Market
Keeping drinks warm from point A to point B can be tough, but thermal products are continuously evolving to change that sentiment.
The Rise And Fall Of Hard Coffee
After a seemingly unstoppable rise, we said RIP to Pabst Blue Ribbon’s Hard Coffee in October 2022. Do other hard coffee drinks stand a chance?
Fire It Up: Enhancing the Art of Roasting With Technology
Roasting coffee is an art, but technology can bring more precision to making the perfect cup of coffee.