I am a bit of a coffee-dork. Ok, I am a HUGE coffee-dork. I regularly aggravate waiters and waitresses at restaurants because I always bring along my very own ground coffee bean and single cup French Press into restaurants and order a pot of hot water. Of course I order food too but, there are few restaurants that serve a cup of coffee I will pay for.
I read about this invention a few months back, I am so excited that Starbucks has purchased the company which I hope means that there will be Clover’s hitting the Starbucks here in Central-Ohio sometime soon.
Starbucks was not the first to see and admire the Clover1. The Clover1 has been used at around 200 coffeehouses around the world Intelligentsia in Chicago, La Mill in Los Angeles and Caffe Vita in Seattle.
Stumptown, of Portland, Ore., recently installed four Clovers in its location in the Ace Hotel. New York City now has five of the devices, two of them at the Chelsea branch of Café Grumpy, which has used them to dispense 60,000 cups in a little over a year.
With the market share that Starbucks controls you can bet that the Clover1 may come down in price and perhaps even a home model will become available.
But which of those coffee companies are keeping their Clovers?
Left by Kate on May 6th, 2008