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Savings Experiment: The Perks of Brewing Versus Buying Coffee
2:00PM 1/25/2011
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Starbucks Tells Baristas to Slow Down
6:50AM 10/13/2010
Your morning coffee may get a little slower.
Starbucks (SBUX) is telling its baristas to slow down the preparation of drinks in order to counter the image of a hot drinks assembly line. Under new guidelines for stores in the U.S. and Canada, baristas will be allowed to work on no more than two...
With classes starting soon, students start to scout out extra cash for books and food. But how to find the ideal part-time job to help finance your tuition and fun funds? If flipping burgers won't cut it for you, consider one of the following 10 best part-time jobs for students, as named by our...
Coffee house confidential: My life in a quintessential college job
10:00AM 5/02/2010
As I browsed Digg this week looking for fresh stories, I had to laugh a bit when I saw that a CNN piece touting the potential health benefits of coffee ranked among the most popular pieces. After all, I've been serving the stuff for about five years as a barista, and the effects of America's coffee...
I am a loyal customer of Stumptown Coffee, the Portland, Ore. boutique roaster which is famous for its passionate owner, Duane Sorenson, and his commitment to coffee (he once set a record for paying a lot for coffee beans, $47.06 per pound for the Nicaraguan Los Golondrinas beans). It's also famous...
Applying for bank bailout easier than coffee barista job
8:00AM 12/29/2008
Getting some of the $700 billion bailout for America's banks looks to be a lot easier than applying for a job at a Portland coffee shop.
I didn't believe it until I saw it myself, but applying for a bank bailout in the federal Capital Purchase Program requires only two pages. And I realize that...
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