Consumer outrage over the mountain of K-Cup waste created by Keurig coffee machines is brewing innovation. Mike Hachey was looking for a more convenient and better-tasting coffee machine for his small, but growing, production company. The chief executive officer of Egg Studios settled on a Keurig, ...

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Until recently, I have been part of the 9-to-5 work force. It’s very likely that I have not noticed this coffee shop trend before As I write this, I am sitting in a café, drinking a flat white — the latest local trend in trendy coffees: steam heated milk turned to micro-foam, assembled so tha ...

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If you do not have time to take some fresh coffee beans, grind them yourself and then go ahead and make the perfect cup of coffee, then you have a few options available to you. The first is instant coffee, although this lacks the full-bodied flavor. The next would be to use one of the pod systems, w ...

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The single-serving coffee pod known as the K-Cup, created for Green Mountain Coffee’s Keurig line of coffee machines but now compatible with a few others, has created a steadily building roar of criticism thanks to its environmental footprint. The K-Cup is not recyclable, and consumers use and cast ...

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KITCHENER — What Keurig did for coffee, Bryan Fedorak and Jason Neevel want to do for cocktails. The two entrepreneurs made a machine called Bartesian that produces six different cocktails. It works much the same as the popular coffee maker. Premixed cups containing ingredients are slipped into the ...

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At 5ft nothing, I have no love lost for supermodels – what with their body perfection and legs that are as tall as, well… me. But that was before I discovered that the espresso martini, a cocktail for which I have rather a penchant, is directly thanks to one of these beings. Apparently, in th ...

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Despite technology keeping us connected to others, it’s often relegated to the virtual realm. Nescafe set out to show how a fresh cup of joe is the perfect way to connect people in the real world. The coffee maker took to the streets of Germany, which according to research it citied topped the list ...

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With temperatures creeping ever higher, your need for iced coffee increases exponentially. You could shell out cash every morning for your favorite brew, or you could learn this simple trick: make iced coffee with a Keurig machine. Seriously, it’s super easy. Hear me out. There’s a certain type of ...

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Keurig Green Mountain (GMCR) stock always scared me. The company seems like a great growth play in its earlier days, although GMCR stock always seems way ahead of itself. KeurigGreenMountainNew185 Keurig Green Mountain Is in for Chilly Times (GMCR)Sure enough, back in 2011, GMCR stock went nuts, bef ...

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On the first Saturday in May, this column was about “copyrighted coffee.” In a nutshell — or, in this case, coffee bean: The new Keurig 2.0 coffee maker was designed so only Keurig-licensed coffee pods (K-cups) would work in the machine. In other words, users could no longer buy reusable ...

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The UK’S first zero energy coffee shop has now opened after two former Yorkshire colleagues spearheaded a new form of eco-friendly building structure. After incorporating the latest in environmentally-friendly building design with innovative saving technologies, the first of two trial “eco pods” fo ...

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PLATTSBURGH —  After multiple remodeling projects, the last being about a month ago, Valley Vending changed its perceived conception of a business with a front office to what’s actually there — multiples of single K-Cups in a mix-and-match premium service walk-in store. #This new layout allows cust ...

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