Tag: Coffee
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Good Bones Coffee opens as ‘third-space’ in Denver amidst East Colfax construction
Where some businesses fear the toll the BRT has taken, two Denver natives embraced the opportunity to open a rockin’ coffee shop In a neighborhood with good bones, Carson and Melody Allen saw a need for a social hub, and filled it with guitars, vintage clothing, motorcycles and nostalgia. Despite construction plaguing businesses along East…
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Evergreen’s Muddy Buck Coffee House serves more than coffee; its community too
Walking along Bear Creek Road in Evergreen, the smells of roasted coffee beans waft from Muddy Buck Coffee House; a thick plume of sticky, caramelized smoke fills the air around the community cafe. The culprit, Rand Packer’s coffee roaster. “The San Franciscan roaster is, for me, just a very fun way of doing coffee roasting,”…
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Starbucks to close stores, lay off 900 workers as part of turnaround plan
Starbucks is laying off around 900 non-retail employees and closing some U.S. and Canadian stores as it focuses more of its resources on a turnaround. The Seattle coffee giant will notify employees whose positions are being eliminated early Friday and said that it plans to close an undetermined number of stores in North America in…
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Colorado’s most curious coffee shop is inside historic train cars
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NEDERLAND • The wood floor in the train car had to be replaced. Business had to close one recent week. “We don’t like closing for a week, but we would rather do that and maintain the integrity of a place like this,” said Jesse Fox, owner of perhaps Colorado’s most unique coffee shop. It was…
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Bad to the bean: Bad Ass Coffee adds second Colorado Springs-area location
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Colorado Springs coffee drinkers seemingly can’t get enough of the beverage and coffee retailers apparently can’t get enough of Colorado Springs. Bad Ass Coffee, the Hawaiian coffee concept whose first area outlet debuted more than a year ago in unincorporated Falcon, has opened a second location at Woodmen and Marksheffel roads in northeast Colorado Springs;…
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Black History Month: Where to shop, eat and support Black-owned businesses in Denver
Black History Month runs from Feb. 1 to March 1 every year as a celebration of culture and achievements within the Black community. The beginning of Black History Month started in 1915 thanks to Carter G. Woodson according to the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Woodson went to participate in…
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Greeley Starbucks becomes 8th statewide to unionize
A Greeley Starbucks became the eight in the state to unionize after employees voted 20-1 in favor of the move Tuesday night. The journey to unionize began on August 5 when 90% of employees petitioned for recognition as a union. Employees from the store located at 2604 11th Ave. cast their votes throughout the day.…
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Metro Moves: More coffee options at Denver International Airport
Welcome to The Denver Gazette’s Metro Moves. You’ll get the latest metro Denver openings, closings, hiring and promotion briefs here. To submit your company’s news, drop an email to [email protected]. Now open Two new coffee retailers opened at Denver International Airport in recent weeks. On Thursday, minority and women-owned Kabod Coffee started serving “locally roasted,…
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Metro Moves: Bad Ass Coffee opens Denver store
Welcome to the Denver Gazette’s Metro Moves. You’ll get the latest metro Denver openings, closings, hiring and promotion briefs here. To submit your company’s news, drop an email to [email protected]. Now Open Denver residents can now get a taste of Hawaiian joe as the first Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii opened Thursday at 2990 Speer…