https://www.reuters.com/business/retail ... 022-09-13/

Sorry if this is not the right forum for this but I found this particular piece interesting:

Another machine, which brews hot coffee one cup at a time instead of in bulk batches and eliminates paper filters, is being tested in Minneapolis locations and could be rolled out broadly next year.

Starbucks seems to have capacity issues and is trying to develop new technology to speed up the process while retaining "quality." I'm curious to see how this manifests. Single serving without a paper filter does seem like an odd way to go for maximizing speed. I'd think batch brew is well suited for speed since they seem to not have an issue with demand and would use the coffee quickly. Perhaps it reduces the cleaning time it takes with a large serving pot and filter basket. Removing a paper filter may seem like a small expense to home users but extrapolate that over all the cafes and that is likely millions in savings.

Anyway, curious to see if this is a technology that may trickle down to the home user. I was actually surprised that they still offer pour overs with the kind of line that is usually wrapped around those locations.



Anyone in the Minneapolis area want to be taste tester?

This machine looks and sounds similar to the grind and brew machines at certain gas stations (Race Trac, Circle K). They basically brew large caffè cremas (espresso with a crap-ton of water run through the puck). I've never had a very decent coffee from one of them.

i read it to mean this was for drip coffee, not espresso.

They brew "drip style" coffee, but its basically made the same way as a very long espresso. That is, if these new Starbucks thingys are what I think they are. And I'm pretty sure they are.

These are the gas station machines I'm talking about:

A light roast, by Starbucks' standards.