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Tag Archives: coffee
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Coffee Shop Etiquette
An all-encompassing guide to proper coffee shop manners for those who use café’s as their office away from home. Below, guest panelist Maciej Kasperowicz takes on the decades old “Can I take business calls in a crowded coffee shop” question:
A: It’s most polite to take calls outside, but short, quiet conversations are permissible….
“Do take into account, however, whether the shop has too much background noise to effectively communicate over the phone. We might not mind the sound of your voice, but the person you’re on the phone with might not be able to hear you over coffee grinders, steam wands and music.”
I think I need to make this into an illustrated guide. Thoughts?
{mashable}
Posted in essays, things i like
Tagged cell phones, coffee, coffee shops, etiquette, manners
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“Caution: Contents May Be Hot”
The new HBO documentary Hot Coffee explores the myths behind the infamous McDonald’s hot coffee lawsuit. The version of the story most of us know is, as Brooke Gladstone posits: “simply not true.” In fact, it was part of a PR push to discourage individuals from suing big business.
McDonald’s aside, lawyer-turned-director Susan Saladoff has a bigger axe to grind, as she tells us toward the end of the interview:
I practiced law for twenty-five years and I saw for all of those years how difficult it was for people to get justice because the system is totally rigged against the average person. And most people didn’t get it until they needed it, until they were effected personally. Then when they needed the system and they realized, “oh my, the system isn’t there for me,” I just got angry and I wanted the truth to come out.
{via On The Media}
And here’s the trailer:
Coffee: It’s OKAY
So says youtube:
{via daring fireball}
More Coffee Bicycles
This time it’s the other way around — not a coffee serving bike, but a bike floating in a cup of coffee!
© salon
Bikes! Coffee! Coffee Bike!
Each Bike Caffe is equipped with:
- State of the Art Italian Espresso Lever Machine
- Hand Wash Sink w/ hot & cold running water
- Two 48 quart coolers – to carry ice, milk, fresh fruit and smoothie mixes
- Fresh Water Tank
- Waste Water Tank
- 4 110v outlets
- Water Pump
- Food Display
- Syrups and Syrup Speedrail Rack
- Interchangeable Menu Boards
- Rain & Sun Awnings
- In- Counter Programmable Blender
- High Pressure Blender Jug Cleaning System
- In-Counter Cup Dispensers
- Geared Hub System
- Tubless Kevlar Tires
{Bicycling Magazine}
Dropping caffeine
I don’t want to give up coffee.
I love the taste, the routine, the caffeine. But I want to give life without an addiction a try, even though I’ll probably be back. Even writing this makes me skeptical about the whole endeavor. Almost everyone I know is a coffee drinker; how bad is it really? It seems that every six months a new study comes out that says coffee is innocuous in moderation and even good for you, only to be contradicted by a different study the next month that shows how coffee is unhealthy.
Nevertheless, I’ve outlined a plan for giving it up. It starts with an immediate reduction in caffeine intake, but in a small way. By the end of six months, I should be off the bean for good.
- January: 16 oz. of coffee/day. Tea is OK after that, if needed.
- February: 16 oz. of coffee/day. No tea.
- March: 12 oz. of coffee/day. No tea.
- April: two cups of green tea/day.
- May: one cup of green tea/day.
- June: Herbal tea.
So there you have it. What are your thoughts on caffeine addiction? Have you ever tried to give it up?
I don’t want to give up coffee.
I love the taste, the routine, the caffeine. But I want to give life without an addiction a try, even though I’ll probably be back. Even writing this makes me skeptical about the whole endeavor. Almost everyone I know is a coffee drinker; how bad is it really? It seems that every six months a new study comes out that says coffee is innocuous in moderation and even good for you, only to be contradicted by a different study the next month that shows how coffee is unhealthy.
Nevertheless, I’ve outlined a plan for giving it up. It starts with an immediate reduction in caffeine intake, but in a small way. By the end of six months, I should be off the bean for good.
- January: 16 oz. of coffee/day. Tea is OK after that, if needed.
- February: 16 oz. of coffee/day. No tea.
- March: 12 oz. of coffee/day. No tea.
- April: two cups of green tea/day.
- May: one cup of green tea/day.
- June: Herbal tea.
So there you have it. What are your thoughts on caffeine addiction? Have you ever tried to give it up?
