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Riding Coffee’s New Wave
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According to a March 26th article in the New York Times, Starbucks has recently bought the Coffee Equipment Company of Seattle, the producer of the Clover coffee brewer, in “an effort to concentrate on making better coffee.” This innovative machine –– with controls to customize temperature, water amount, and brewing time to each particular bean and cup –– has been a favorite of the independent café scene. But all of that may soon be changing. Stumptown Coffee, of Portland, Oregon is now boycotting the machine as an active protest against Starbucks’ dominant industrial presence in the coffee world.
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