Sector Labs Partners with EPS to Improve the Disposable Coffee Cup

Posted by Daniel on May 19, 2011 in Press | 0 comments

New, Room For™ brand hot cups conserve coffee by making it easier for customers to indicate precisely how much room they need for milk or cream. A simple inverted volume indicator could change the entire coffee industry by improving the way coffee is ordered and dispensed.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 19, 2011: Sector Labs, a San Francisco-based product and concept development firm, is partnering with Excellent Packaging & Supply, a distributor of sustainable and nature-based packaging for foodservice applications, to commercialize a disposable hot cup that takes the guesswork out of dispensing coffee by making it easy for customers to indicate precisely how much room they need for milk or cream. The cups are the first of their kind to incorporate the patent-pending R4 System™ and will be marketed under the Room For™ brand. Working together, the two companies have developed a prototype cup that is currently in trial at Crossroads Café in San Francisco.

Price of coffee about to jump again

Posted by Daniel on Feb 27, 2011 in Updates | 0 comments

Prices have been rising steadily over the past four or five years but these rises have accelerated since May of last year. Coffee roasters are passing some of the cost on to consumers. Last fall, Starbucks said it was raising the price of large and labor-intensive drinks to offset the cost of coffee beans.

Meanwhile, the price of packaged Dunkin’ Donuts and Folgers coffee products sold in retail outlets rose by 10 percent this month. And with coffee prices hitting a 14-year high and rising more than 100 percent in the past 12 months, more hikes could be on the horizon.

read the entire story here | via KATU.com

San Francisco Beta Campaign

Posted by Daniel on Feb 16, 2011 in Updates | 0 comments

Select San Francisco coffee retailers are currently beta testing R4 System. If you want to help revolutionize the coffee industry and your coffee shop is located in the San Francisco Bay Area, contact us about becoming a beta partner.

Coffee Surges to 13-Year High

Posted by Daniel on Jan 28, 2011 in Updates | 0 comments

Arabica coffee surged to a 13-year high on signs that shrinking supplies in Brazil and Colombia, the world’s two biggest producers, will fail to keep up with demand. Sugar fell.

Arabica prices have surged 84 percent in the past year. Starbucks Corp. this week forecast second-quarter profit that fell short of analysts’ estimates as it projected paying more for coffee. A growers group in Colombia said it expects output to fall and a researcher said that Brazil’s crop will decline.

read the entire story here | via Bloomberg