https://dailycoffeenews.com/tag/chains/ Business news for specialty coffee professionals Wed, 15 May 2024 13:12:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/05/15/klatch-coffee-opening-five-new-shops-inside-sprouts-stores/ Wed, 15 May 2024 12:31:14 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=179846 Southern California-based specialty coffee roaster and retailer Klatch Coffee plans to exponentially increase its retail footprint in 2024, with the first of five new stores soon to open inside a...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/04/24/luckin-coffee-opens-chinas-largest-coffee-roastery/ Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:22:45 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=179412 Chinese coffee roasting and retail giant Luckin Coffee this week opened a massive $120 million roasting plant in Kunshan. Located between the cities of Shanghai and Suzhou, the new roastery...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/04/24/coffee-and-grocery-chain-foxtrot-abruptly-closes-all-33-us-stores/ Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:31:40 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=179401 Specialty coffee shop and boutique grocery chain Foxtrot abruptly closed all 33 of its locations throughout the United States yesterday, giving little notice to hundreds of employees who are now...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/03/26/new-yorks-laughing-man-coffee-launches-franchise-program/ Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:52:56 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=178754 New York City-based Laughing Man Coffee & Tea Co. recently unveiled a national franchise program, with its flagship 2,000-square-foot cafe in Lower Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood serving as the foundation.  The...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/02/15/scooters-coffee-opening-huge-indiana-distribution-center/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 18:17:49 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=177913 Fast-growing coffee chain Scooter’s Coffee and coffee supply partner company Harvest Roasting plan to open a new 183,000-square-foot distribution center in suburban Indianapolis. To be located along I-65 in Whitestown,...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/01/19/jde-peets-acquiring-caribou-coffee-roasting-operation-in-260-million-deal/ Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:51:12 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=177316 Minnesota-based Caribou Coffee is licensing its brand in consumer packaged goods and foodservice to multinational coffee roasting and distribution giant JDE Peet’s in a deal worth approximately $260 million, according...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/12/report-china-overtakes-united-states-as-largest-coffee-shop-market/ Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:13:49 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175355 China has overtaken the United States as the country with the highest number of coffee shops in the world, according to the latest annual report on the East Asian coffee...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/16/ny-firm-general-atlantic-acquires-joe-the-juice-for-641-million/ Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:36:26 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=174873 New York-based investment firm General Atlantic is acquiring a majority stake in the European-born cafe chain Joe & the Juice.  According to reports from Bloomberg and Yahoo Finance, the buyout...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/15/ziggis-coffee-signs-franchise-deal-for-50-atlanta-area-locations/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 14:48:58 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=174849 Colorado-based coffee chain Ziggi’s Coffee has signed a franchise agreement for 50 new Ziggi’s Coffee locations in the greater Atlanta market.  The company has not disclosed the identity of the...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/10/the-original-caribou-coffee-shop-in-minnesota-is-closing/ Fri, 10 Nov 2023 14:18:45 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=174752 [Note: This story has been updated since its original publication to include a comment from Caribou Coffee.] The original Caribou Coffee location, which opened nearly 31 years ago in Edina, Minnesota,...]]>