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March 25, 2006 Posted by Chris Tingom Filed under Coffee
We had a great turnout! Five people came to LUX to celebrate coffee and have a good time. It worked out so well I think we’ll try to do it again. Thank you to everyone for coming!
Fly on the wall:
- Jason shared Map Phoenix — a project to map the downtown arts scene
- We talked about making a map of coffee shops in Phoenix and wondered if we should list Starbucks
- Larry shared his knowledge about coffee roasting and answered questions about roasting coffee and storing coffee
- We talked about the local coffee scene and a few coffee shops in particular
- We thought it might be interesting to know where coffee shops get their roasted beans
- Larry and I agreed that LUX makes one of the best espresso shots anywhere
- Joey suggested the Harry Potter books and Lisa suggested reading them before watching the films
- Chris talked about some of the upcoming interviews on Arizona Coffee
Lisa says:
That was fun Chris! Happy Birthday arizona-coffee.com!
larry says:
I had a great time, thank you Chris! Let’s do it again soon. Happy B-Day Arizona Coffee!
Jason says:
I really enjoyed Larry’s discussion from the perspective of a local roaster, and the bag of house even more. Thanks for putting this together Chris - looking forward to helping produce the analog version
Chris Tingom says:
Thanks everyone. I had fun, too!
Psyd says:
As far as mapping the Starbuckses, I don’t think that its necessary. If you are going to the trouble to look at a map for specialty coffee, you probably don’t want to find the *$ anyways. If you’re looking for Starbucks, cheeze, just look around. I dunno about Phoenix, but if you look at Google Earth, searching for coffee shops in the DC area, two our of every three coffee shops are a *$!
Chris Tingom says:
I think that there are 116 *$ in AZ and I have about 55 - 60 coffee shops listed on Arizona Coffee. If that’s the case, I think there is a 2 to 1 ratio in AZ as well.
That sure doesn’t line up with what Starbucks is saying:
http://www.arizona-coffee.com/2005/starbucks-annual-report
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