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Longtime Los Angeles–based coffee professional Jaymie Lao—formerly of Go Get Em Tiger and now an independent consultant—t reveals what makes the LA coffee scene so special.

ViCAFE’s roastery serves 17 cafes in Switzerland. To manage that scale, it uses automation—including a software program that connects all the roastery’s machinery—so its team is free to focus on quality.

Click to find out which grocery stores have pulled big coffee brands off their shelves. Plus, coffee stockpiles are dwindling and Starbucks workers in Chile go on strike.

The amount of coffee stockpiled in warehouses by Brazilian cooperatives has plummeted following the surge in commodity prices over the past year.