Of course, this creates speculation about how dedicated Starbucks is to the specialty Clover machines, whose Seattle-based manufacturer it bought last year. Starbucks has been testing the Clover ...

Zander Nosler’s first scent memory is of Peet’s Coffee in the Bay Area, where he grew up. “It was so disappointing that coffee never tasted as good as it smelled,” said Nosler, who set out to improve ...

Try taking a coffee snob into Starbucks and you might have trouble; that is, unless you're lucky enough to come across a branch with a Clover machine. The one-cup brewer – borrowing principles from a ...

The Clover coffee machine will be installed in 80 Starbucks by the end of 2008. Photo: RJ Shaughnessy It's 10 am on a Thursday, and the line at Ritual Coffee Roasters in San Francisco snakes out the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When you stop by a local cafe and buy a cup, the experience feels perfectly ordinary. As a result, it's easy to forget that the coffee ...