Coffee news weekly round up: Invisible Coffee and Inside Out Coffee Cups
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Invisible Coffee to help those who feel invisible
Every 11 minutes another Londoner goes into homelessness, according to the Single Homeless Project.
This led to the London-based ad agency CPB London to create The Invisible Coffee Company, selling an “invisible” (i.e. non-existent) cup of coffee for £3, with all proceeds going to the Single Homeless Project.
Starbucks “Inside-Out” Cups go Viral
With so much going on in the world, it’s nice to see big issues like inside-out coffee cups getting all the attention.
Starbucks USA have had a few supply chain problems recently, leading to this location using faulty cups with the printing on the inside.
Obviously, the internet has blown up over this.
Get your piece of the drama here.
Greggs X Primark
Primark in Birmingham is hosting the “World’s Largest Greggs” in this tacky marriage of fashion, flaky pastry and flat whites.
Your Pret subscription price is going up
If you can afford £20 a month on unlimited coffee, you’ll probably be able to stretch to £25.
“There is more of a coffee cult in UK than in Italy”
“London in particular has this sense of freedom where everyone does what comes into their heads, unimaginable things, without coming across as crazy. Espresso machines in apecars and moped-cafeterias inside churches and telephone booths: coffee is bought and drunk everywhere”
A very interesting interview.
Uganda withdraws from the International Coffee Agreement
They’re the second country to do so in the last couple of years.
Get your skates on for Brew’22
Cornelius Kersten and Ellia Smeding are Olympic Skaters representing Great Britain in the 2022 Olympics.
“We just wanted to fund ourselves to the Games and hopefully make it to 2022, and we did. For skaters, drinking coffee is mostly the only social moment besides training… We thought we could make delicious coffee – five tastes for each Olympic ring and five colours.”
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