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Peet's Coffee back to $26 a share bid for Diedrich

Peet's Coffee & Tea said Monday it wouldn't bid more for Diedrich Coffee Inc., but it also refused to end its monthlong effort to buy the roaster, arguing that an offer from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. may face challenges.

Diedrich: Green Mountain's $265M bid superior

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. bested a rival Wednesday, after the board at Diedrich Coffee Inc. said its all-cash buyout offer trumped a dueling cash-and-stock bid.

Clinton: Would look forward to coffee with Palin

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she would be happy to talk to Sarah Palin over coffee.

Wolf Farms claims Classic Cupping Competition

Wolf Farms has won the Kona Coffee Cultural Festival's Classic Cupping Competition.

Green Mountain Coffee slides on 1Q outlook

Shares of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. declined on Thursday after the specialty coffee company forecast a decline in fiscal first-quarter profit.

Peet's Coffee buying Diedrich Coffee for $213M

Coffee chain retailer Peet's Coffee & Tea Inc. said Monday it will buy wholesale roaster and distributor Diedrich Coffee Inc. for $213 million in a move to enter the rapidly growing single-cup coffee market.

49ers turn to rookie with Gore injured

The San Francisco 49ers are putting their offense in the hands of rookie running back Glen Coffee.

Starbucks rolls out Via instant coffee nationwide

Caffeine addicts nationwide got first tastes of Starbucks Corp.'s newest offering as the coffee giant blanketed the nation with tens of thousands of free samples of its instant coffee called Via.

St. Louis coffee spill costs campus $200,000

St. Louis is perking up with jokes about the $200,000 cup of coffee. But officials at a college and its insurance company aren't laughing.

Vienna abuzz over plan for cafe in cathedral tower

Talk about a caffeine high.

Green Mountain fiscal 3rd-quarter profit doubles

Coffee company Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. said Wednesday its fiscal third-quarter profit more than doubled on higher sales.

49ers sign RB Glen Coffee to 4-year deal

The San Francisco 49ers have signed running back Glen Coffee, their third-round draft pick, to a four-year contract.

Colombian coffee comes with smuggled cocaine

Customs agents discovered an extra ingredient in a shipment of Colombian coffee: nearly a half-ton of cocaine.

Maine topless coffee shop gutted by overnight fire

A deliberately set fire destroyed a topless coffee shop early Wednesday, just hours after the owner talked with local officials about making the business more like a strip club, investigators said.

Man banned from all NH Dunkin Donuts after theft

A Portsmouth, N.H., man was given a suspended 60-day jail sentence for stealing an $8.29 bag of coffee — and he's been banned from all the Dunkin' Donuts in town. Matthew Anderson, 20, pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor count of shoplifting. He admitted going into a Dunkin' Donuts, placing two bags of coffee under his shirt, and leaving one behind after an employee confronted him, The Portsmouth Herald reported.

Clarification: Coffee Ad Wars story

In a story May 5, The Associated Press reported that Dunkin' Donuts will cut the prices of lattes in its New York, New Jersey and Connecticut stores. The story should have made clear that price cuts will be available only in stores in New York City and the counties closest to it in those three states.

Ala. coffee shop customers pick up other's tabs

Some customers at Starbucks shops around the Birmingham area have been getting an extra ingredient with their coffee: Kindness. Customers at shops in eastern Birmingham, Hoover and Vestavia Hills are paying it forward by anonymously picking up the tabs of others.

Police: Woman drugs boss's coffee so he'll 'chill'

Police said a woman has been arrested for allegedly slipping some tranquilizers into her boss's coffee because she felt "he needed to chill out." Police said the 24-year-old woman admitted to detectives that she slipped the drugs into veteranarian John Duckett's drink. Officers said Duckett knew something was wrong shortly after drinking some of the coffee Tuesday morning.

Police: Doughnut shop worker slashes man's tires

All the customer wanted was coffee. Instead, he needs four new tires. Police say a worker at a Massachusetts Dunkin' Donuts slashed the tires on a customer's Jeep after the two got into an argument Tuesday.

Starbucks’ strange brew of business plans

When Starbucks Chief Executive Howard Schultz announced that he was taking back the reins at the company he had built to glory, the recession had just begun and the foreclosure and banking crises were far from apparent.

Cup of competition: small cafes holding their own

Steam releases in a long psssssssssss. Coffee drips and glasses clink. Coffee lovers in the hotel lobby closely watch baristas prepare their crafts: espressos and cappuccinos that can win them the title of best coffee maker on the East Coast.

Starbucks to begin selling instant coffee

Starbucks Corp. said Thursday it will unveil a new instant coffee as part of its attempt to turn around sluggish sales and shed its reputation for pricey lattes.

A value meal at Starbucks? Coming right up

The allure of the value meal has long seduced penny-pinchers craving a cheeseburger. Now, as the dismal economy slurps up profits, Starbucks Corp. is hoping to find some sales salvation in its own value meal variety.

Money-saving tips for travel tightwads

One summer, early in my traveling career, I took my mother with me on my work-related road trips. Not because she was great company, but because with her in tow I could get a senior discount on motel rooms. As you can imagine, there were some serious downsides to that scheme, but at the time it seemed to make sense.

7 simple steps to get a jump on your diet

What if you could take a big chunk out of those weight-loss goals and put a dent in your health status by making only a few tiny adjustments to your daily diet? Well, it’s absolutely possible. In fact, you don’t need to turn your life upside down to be healthy and fit, according to Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D., author of “10 Habits That Mess Up a Woman’s Diet,” who adds that cutting even 100 calories from your daily fare is all it would take to stop weight gain. Here she offers seven simple steps to get you started:

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Coffee increases drunkenness
Source: Telegraph

Drinking coffee does not sober you up – and may actually further impair your judgement, new research suggests.

Coffee May Reduce Risk of Deadly Prostate Cancer, Study Shows
Source: Bloomberg.com

The study is the first to associate coffee with prostate cancer, contradicting previous research that's found no link.

Street Kid Barista Schools - Homeless Youth Get a Shot at Coffee-Making Jobs (GALLERY)
Source: Trend Hunter

Very cool program in Portland Oregon to help street kids get job skills as baristas.

Hick in New York City, Part 26-- When it rains, it pours!

Tuesday morning dawned blustery, with gusts of wind and spats of rain. Fred and I had met the night crew the night before, and I had rushed back to the hotel to fall into bed for a few hours sleep.

What Would You Choose as Your Last Meal? Part Five: Drinks

This is part five of a five part exploration of favorite foods. Part one can be found here... part two here... part three here, and part four here.

Beyond Kona coffee - Good American coffee without the snobbery
Source: starbulletin.com

Hawaii's famed beverage is seeing serious competition from areas on other islands The wholesale, unroasted price of coffee outside Kona averages about $1.75 per pound, according to the state, while Big Island growers get an average of $5.30 per pound for the season.

7 Weird Ways To Not Get Sick (...Including Kissing And Coffee)
Source: Discovery.com

You know about antioxidants and you've been religious about your daily dose of Vitamin C, but what else can you do to keep that tickle from creeping up the back of your throat or waking up in sweat-wet sheets and a chill shivering along your spine? Here are some of the weirder, b …

How did your morning start out?

Well let me tell you that mine started with a bang.... got up took the puppy out, got a cup of coffee. Cleaned up the down stairs, got another cup of coffee.

Caribou Coffee Takes Aim at Starbucks With First TV Ad
Source: Advertising Age

Caribou Coffee will launch its first-ever TV campaign tomorrow with an approach that pokes fun at its biggest rival, Starbucks.

Soyonara to non-dairy coffee
Source: Sunday Telegraph

cies. Customers who prefer the alternative to dairy for its taste or for health reasons are being told by zealous baristas to get their caffeine fix elsewhere. Reasons for refusing to sell soy-milk coffees vary.

Man arrested for making coffee in own home while naked
Source: Telegraph

An American man who made coffee in his own home while nude is facing charges of indecent exposure.

Making coffee naked at 5:30am in your own kitchen? That's a year in jail
Source: Fark.com

Well I guess its just a matter of time before I go to jail as I tend to do this just about every morning. Totally absurd.

'Smug Mug' Offers Cashless Coffee Servings With Just A Swipe
Source: WISN.COM

MILWAUKEE -- How would you like to buy a cup of coffee and never have to pull out your wallet? A smart-chip enabled mug offers cashless coffee servings by a mere swipe at a sensor to enjoy that favorite blend.

Workplace coffee? Yucks!
Source: Straits Times Interactive - SINGAPORE

NEW YORK - ONE-THIRD of US workplaces provide free coffee to their employees, but just half of those workers find the coffee tolerable and one in 10 say it's terrible, according to a study released on Thursday.

Coffee does little to protect the aging brain
Source: Yahoo! News

In a study that appears in the September issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a group of 2,606 participants (48% women) just over 74 years on average, specifically screened for declining cognition and dementia, investigators found that each year of increasing age  …

What's Inside a Cup of Coffee?
Source: Wired News

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Five Washington bikini baristas charged with prostitution
Source: heraldnet.com

Five baristas are accused of engaging in prostitution at an Everett bikini espresso stand following a two-month undercover police investigation into complaints that the women were selling more than coffee.

It's called "Cat-poo" coffee for a reason. We'll stick with Starbucks
Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Bennett's Fresh Roast in Fort Myers will brew what's known as the world's most expensive, rare and bizarrely harvested coffee. The price tag for a 12-ounce cup: $20.

Afrocoffee's great design sense shows small can dream big

Cape Town's Afrocoffee cafe and design emporium is a great case study of how a small cafe, through the use of clever, high-quality design and products, can go global and make some noise.

Crumbs: half of Britons injured by their biscuits on coffee break, survey reveals
Source: Telegraph

More than half of all Britons have been injured by biscuits ranging from scalding from hot tea or coffee while dunking or breaking a tooth eating during a morning tea break, a survey has revealed.

This makes you wonder --- Are we really this dumb ?

Mama and I have been with out a coffee maker for some time now. We are using little mocha pots that just make coffee for one or two. They have worked great for us, but we like to go to Las Vegas and when we do we like to take a thermos of coffee.

The top 5 worst coffee drinks in America
Source: msnbc.com

About 75 percent of American adults drink at least one cup of coffee per day. But do you know how many calories are in your mug? Men's Health serves up a list of the worst offenders, and offers smart alternatives to help you lose 10-30 pounds a year - without dieting.

The top 5 worst coffee drinks in America
Source: msnbc.com

About 75 percent of American adults drink at least one cup of coffee per day. But do you know how many calories are in your mug? Men's Health serves up a list of the worst offenders, and offers smart alternatives to help you lose 10-30 pounds a year - without dieting.

Poll. Where is your alternate pee spot?

OK, you've been drinking coffee at work all day and since you've been home you've knocked back about a half a dozen beers. The pressure is building, but you head to the bathroom and find your spouse is sitting on the throne and they ain't letting you use it in the near future.

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