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A Starbucks on every corner? The megachain says no thank you. Plus, new laws in Mexico to regulate coffee and mochas might make you younger.

Throughout the 90s, Starbucks expanded using a “cluster strategy,” opening stores in close proximity to one another. Now they're closing hundreds of stores.

Here are Fresh Cup’s 10 most-read articles of 2025, covering everything from tariffs and viral coffee shops to asserting your rights when ICE raids your business.

We follow coffee health studies all year to answer one question: Is coffee good for you? Once again, the answer is: mostly.

Union drives continued to define the coffee industry in 2025, from strikes at Starbucks to workers organizing at small shops across the U.S.

Starbucks continues trying to be a coffeeshop again, new consumption trends, and a year marked by acquisitions and sales.

Tariffs, C market spikes, and new tools to evaluate coffee upend the industry: here are the biggest stories from 2025 in coffee.

From the ever-changing threat of tariffs to big companies continuing to swallow small ones, 2025 was anything but predictable. Here's (mostly) everything that happened this year.

Fresh Cup’s Editor-in-Chief Ashley Rodriguez shares her picks for 2025’s 10 must-read stories—and reveals behind-the-scenes insights on how they came together.

Two new studies have found that spent coffee grounds can remove toxic heavy metals from polluted water.