Coffee news weekly round up: Coffee Socks, Free Coffee and a Weird Vending Thing
In case you missed it. No time to browse the web for all the latest news from the world of coffee? No problem. Here’s your weekly round up of coffee news.
SS Lam X Solo Coffee Socks: Get yours free!
“SS Lam was founded by Sophie Lam in 2020. What started as a hobby quickly blew up into sellout demand. SS Lam hand dyes socks from their studio in Peckham using strictly natural dyes, and strictly neutral tones. Bone, Oatmeal, Matcha, and Earth are the names of the colours they offer. It seemed almost mad that there wasn’t a pair called Coffee. So we got speaking, and a few weeks later, I have SS Lam X Solo Coffee dyed socks on my feet.”
From Thursday the 23rd, if you place any order with Solo Coffee you get a pair free – only for the first 100 orders though!
More Free Stuff: Australians are being offered free coffee to prevent accidents
The Victorian Transport Accident Commission (TAC) is running “Pause Stops” after they discovered that drowsy drivers are causing up to 20% of fatalities on all Victorian roads.
A shipping container shortage has resulted in a break bulk coffee shipping trial
A break-bulk ship called the Eagle is currently splooshing its way across the Atlantic with a hold full of coffee.
In the hold is a load of coffee bags stacked up, rather than in the usual shipping containers.
“At the point when we were seeing shipments getting delayed, customers really struggling to get their supplies in time and getting access to coffee, that’s when we started to look at it,” Manish Dhawan, senior vice president for coffee at trading company Olam Food Ingredients, which chartered Eagle, said in an interview. “If you speak to some of the older traders, it was the late 80s, or perhaps the early 90s, when they last did it, so this is really a new frontier kind of thing for us as well.”
Pret A Manger invest in La Cimbali Coffee Machines
Pret have been cruising recently, thanks in part to their coffee subscription, and this has meant they’ve had to put bigger and better machines in some of their stores.
Guy Meakin, Pret’s UK Trading Director says: “As our Pret Coffee Subscription continues to grow, we’re proud to be investing in custom equipment for our baristas that is easy and fast to operate whilst continues to serve our delicious 100% organic coffee our customers love.”
Nespresso creates “enchanting phygital experience for the senses” with Gifts of the Forest campaign
The full article here, if you prefer reading.
Hmmmmm. A baffling and unnecessarily complicated vending machine on Kickstarter
It claims to be the “UK’s first robotic coffee machine that will deliver your coffee on-demand to a locker with a simple click and collect from your mobile”.
It’s a coffee machine with locker doors.
Maybe we’ve missed the point, but why not just a standard vending machine? Why complicate it more than it needs to be? If anyone understands why please let us know.
See it on Kickstarter here.
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