The BuzzWorx coffee shop on Main Street is closing April 25.

That’s bad news for a lot of Main Street workers at places like GLI, Doe-Anderson and Red7e, but BuzzWorks partner Greg Jewell said business has been falling off since December.
“If you want to know if you’re in a recession, ask a small business owner,” Jewell […]

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Two independent coffee houses, BuzzWorx Coffee & Espresso (718 W. Main Street) and Double Shots (1315 Spring Street, Jeffersonville), are looking for new buyers. According to their Craigslist entries, it’s not immediately clear why both are on the block. BuzzWorx’s listing merely says it’s priced to sell at $40,000, while Double Shot’s entry says its […]

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Ever know anybody who takes food from one restaurant into another and eats it? I know some, and it embarrasses the heck out of me to be seen with them.
Apparently it’s pissing off restaurateurs when customers do the same with those oversized coffee cups bearing competitors’ logos. Owner Ina Pinkney aired her woes about it […]

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Starbucks Coffee announced it’s ending its longstanding partnership with T-Mobile to provide Wi-Fi signals in its 19 zillion shops (matter of fact, I think one just opened up on my deck).
Not sure how many of you used that service in the past, and maybe I’m just a tech dork, but I found it a pain […]

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In an effort to return to what he calls the “Starbucks experience,” formerly retired founder and CEO, Howard Schultz, said the chain will end its warm breakfast sandwich program.
In a New York Times piece, Schultz claims the company’s efforts to be everything to everybody—in this case, compete with fast-food chains for early-morning share of stomach—over […]

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Louisville businessmen David Lawrence, Damon Garrett and Will Wolford are behind the mid-February opening of Incredible Dave’s, a family entertainment center at 9236 Westport Road. The site, in the Rolling Hills Plaza, formerly housed a Kroger supermarket.
According to its Web site, Incredible Dave’s is part restaurant (serving pizza, steaks, salads and sandwiches), part fun center […]

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Looks like the nationwide java joust has gotten ugly enough for Starbucks to start a price war in select markets.
The coffee giant that slew Seattle and then the world has cut prices on its smallest cup o’ joe down to a $1. McDonald’s, Dunkin Donuts and any number of service stations offering premium coffee have […]

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Just when you thought—and maybe even hoped—the next Starbucks Coffee shop would open in your home kitchen, the company says it wants to get back to its roots and revive the Starbucks experience.
It doesn’t take much of a business bean to correctly read the coffee grinds here: Somebody’s not happy with sales, and somebody’s going […]

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Any sane-thinking person finds that headline is hard to swallow. He asks, “How can a coffee mug be defective?” And if it is, what fool can’t figure out a solution to the problem, such as throw it away?
But ours is a hyper-litigious society and we all know where such dubious dangers lead … to flashbacks […]

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