As consumers for increasingly frictionless ways to order the foods and beverages they want, PYMNTS Intelligence finds that there is significant demand to integrate AI-assisted in-car ordering into coffee drinkers’ daily routines. By the Numbers According to PYMNTS Intelligence’s report “How Connected Devices Enable Multitasking...
The retail news is full of companies that have made brilliant and sometimes dramatic pivots to catch up with the shift to Digital 3.0. But sometimes the pre-pandemic plans work out just fine. Such is the case with Minneapolis-based Peace Coffee. Before the pandemic, it...
“The Starbucks of South Korea” is expanding its footprint in North America. Coming under the unlikely but battle-tested name of Paris Baguette, the casual pastry and coffee chain is entering new markets with a decidedly international approach. The chain has almost 3,500 stores in South...
Speaker company Sonos said it plans to begin selling bundles of speakers to businesses in response to purchases already being made by many customers. The initiative will focus on a host of different business types, such as coffee shops, cafes, gyms, offices and yoga studios, which...
August 15, 2018
When most people are attempting to catch a flight out of an international airport and want to grab a cup of coffee, their main focus is on speed — they don’t want their caffeine break to cause them to miss their flight. In fact, they don’t take all that much time to observe, or contemplate, […]
April 19, 2018
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is new to mobile order-ahead – but not to the market. The chain, now with 1,200 locations worldwide, was founded in its original form...
March 10, 2020
Speaker company Sonos said it plans to begin selling bundles of speakers to businesses in response to purchases already being made by many customers. The initiative will focus on a host of different business types, such as coffee shops, cafes, gyms, offices and yoga studios, which often need a multitude of speakers. Sonos said it has […]
January 04, 2019
Coffee startup Luckin plans to open 2,500 new stores in China this year to overtake Starbucks in the country. “What we want at the moment is scale and speed,” Luckin...
December 12, 2018
A coffee startup in China that’s gunning for Starbucks has raised $200 million in a Series B funding round, bringing the company’s valuation to $2.2 billion, according to a report....
September 26, 2018
Dunkin’ Donuts announced that it has officially changed its name, and will now be known simply as Dunkin’. As a result of the change, new branding was unveiled at its Global Franchisee...
