Starbucks’ Instant Coffee Sales Reach $100 million

Melissa Allison repotrts in the Seattle Times that Starbucks does not often disclose sales of individual products. It only recently began saying that Frappuccino is a $2 billion-a-year product. But the coffee company … [Read more...]

Coffee Supplier to Increase Prices by 9%

Greg Farrell in New York and Javier Blas in London report for the Financial Times that the company behind some of the most popular coffee brands in the US on Tuesday became the first to raise its retail prices after … [Read more...]

Subway says Breakfast a Success

Four months after debuting its breakfast menu, expansion plans are set Elissa Elan reports in Nation's Restaurant News that after serving breakfast for four months, Subway said the daypart has increased sales … [Read more...]

Dunkin’ Donuts Franchisee Makes it His Business to Give to Maine Causes

Ed Wolak of Scarborough began at Dunkin' Donuts more than 40 years ago and now owns 70 stores. Stephanie Hardiman of the Portland Press Herald writes that when Ed Wolak was 16 in 1967, he was working his first … [Read more...]