https://dailycoffeenews.com/category/cafe/by-region/midwest/ Business news for specialty coffee professionals Mon, 19 Aug 2024 14:08:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/08/19/second-annual-michigan-roast-retreat-coming-to-ann-arbor/ Mon, 19 Aug 2024 12:42:08 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=181899 Ann Arbor, Michigan-based roaster and retailer Dozer Coffee is playing host to the second annual Michigan Roast Retreat, a daytime coffee event designed both for consumers and coffee businesses taking...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/08/01/roasting-plant-coffee-lands-10-million-plans-us-and-uk-expansion/ Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:49:49 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=181521 Roasting Plant Coffee, the coffee chain known for its flamboyant green-coffee-to-cup super-automatic system, today announced the completion of a $10 million funding round. The company said the fresh capital will...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/07/31/upper-michigan-trailblazer-velodrome-coffee-acquired-by-mqt-hospitality/ Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:41:01 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=181459 Upper Michigan-based Velodrome Coffee Company has been acquired by MQT Hospitality, the owner of Marquette-based 231 West Patisserie and the Cruisin’ Coffee. The MQT businesses had been longstanding clients of...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/07/17/good-to-go-cups-is-up-and-running-with-reusable-cup-solution/ Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:00:26 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=181116 A Minnesota Twin Cities startup called Good To Go Cups recently launched with a novel approach to the reuse of to-go coffee cups.  Created by longtime Edina friends and environmental...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/07/12/brazilian-pilot-and-illinois-coffee-entrepreneur-juliana-turchetti-dies-fighting-fire/ Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:56:59 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=181069 Juliana Turchetti, a trailblazing Brazilian aerial firefighter and owner of Springfield, Illinois-based Aviatori Coffee, died Wednesday while fighting a fire in Montana. Working on behalf of Idaho-based company Dauntless Air,...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/06/27/chicago-entrepreneur-and-mall-coffee-icon-gloria-jean-kvetco-has-died/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:44:25 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=180757 Gloria Jean Kvetko, the Chicagoland entrepreneur who founded Gloria Jean’s Coffee in 1979, died on June 14 at the age of 82. Born in Chicago in 1941, Kvetko’s first entrepreneurial...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/06/25/pride-is-on-the-menu-with-discourse-coffees-gay-agenda/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 14:00:51 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=180653 The inventive beverage crafters at Milwaukee’s Discourse Coffee Workshop are taking extra pride in their experimental drinks menu this season. In celebration of Pride Month, the entire special menu for...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/06/24/northeast-ohios-calico-jack-coffee-roasters-pounces-into-first-cafe/ Mon, 24 Jun 2024 12:29:59 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=180636 A swashbuckling coffee company near the shores of Lake Erie called Calico Jack Coffee Roasters has raised the flag on its first brick-and-mortar cafe.  A wall-size rendition of the company’s...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/06/21/ohio-woman-sues-biggby-coffee-over-non-dairy-milk-pricing/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 13:05:18 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=180607 Attorneys representing an Ohio woman have filed a class action lawsuit against Michigan-based Biggby Coffee, alleging discrimination by up-charging for non-dairy milks. The complaint echoes similar class action complaints —...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/06/13/blueprint-coffee-has-big-plans-for-its-new-roastery-in-st-louis/ Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:17:08 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=180179 Specialty coffee company Blueprint Coffee is ready for a high rise in production with the opening of a new roastery and forthcoming headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri.  Inside an 11,000-square-foot...]]>