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Coffee Pot News 21st August 2008 Great coffee for great people In this issue Researchers confirm the obvious History does repeat with a flash!. Mink Cappuccino Blend Coffee grows from the ashes of blast Defence targets coffee cups. Jura Impressa C5 for the home Pass it on.. Jura ENA Slim in diesign and slim on price. The Jura ENA is available in 7 colours including Ristretto Black, Espresso Brown, Coffee Cherry Red, Blue Mountian Sky and Coffee Leaf Green. . Browse more Ena online. Jura User Manuals The Gilkatho website hosts the full range of original Jura manuals in PDF format. If you need a manual for your Jura Impressa, follow this FAQS linka> to search for your manual in our FAQS. Ladies strip for a cause 11 coffee farmers have taken their clothes off in a fit of passion - passion for the Hawaiian Kona bean, that is. The lady farmers posed tastefully nude for a calendar to educate coffee drinkers about Hawaii's famous Kona bean, and encourage the sale of 100% Kona blends. The calendar includes eleven photos depicting idyllic scenes of farm life and coffee production. Read more Web Buys   Jura cleaning tablets . Where ever you are located in Australia, you can buy Jura supplies from Gilkatho and have them delivered to your home or office. Browse supplies online. | Coffee | Specials | News | Machines | Researchers confirm the obvious A researcher in Melbourne has confirmed what the coffee conscious already know - that different types of people frequent different coffee establishments. Victoria University researcher Po-Tsang Chen completed a four year study to discover the difference between those who buy coffee at chains such as Starbucks or Gloria Jeans, and those who prefer independent cafes. Read more online! History does repeat with a flash!. It seems that being around coffee makes people want to get their gear off - at least, only in America. The Gilkatho blog has reported once before on coffee drinkers exposing themselves. Now another US Sherrif's office is appealing for help to find a frappuccino flasher. A coffee cart in Lake Stevens, Washington, reported that a man in his 20s to mid-30s drove up to the stand and stood while touching himself inappropriately in front of the barista. Read more online! Mink Cappuccino Blend One of the worst kept secrets in the industry has been the development and release of Gilkatho's new coffee blends. Mink coffee has been developed and opimised for the office coffee market, particularly for automatic coffee machine. The Mink blends were developed in consultation with Sydney coffee ex-pat Serge Siboni, a 2nd generation coffee roaster. Available now as Cappuccino & Espresso blends, we suggest you try some with yoru next order. . Read more about Mink coffee online!   Coffee grows from the ashes of blast. Coffee farmers in El Salvador whose crops were damaged by a volcano blast are now reaping benefits from the ash left behind. Farmers growing coffee on the still-active Ilamatepec volcano initially lost 26, 800 bags of coffee to the eruption. The blast also affected the following year's season. Sulphur in the ash damaged coffee plants, causing them not to flower and resulting in another 60, 000 bags lost. However, two years on the plants have recovered and coffee yields are increasing quickly, thanks to the volcanic ash adding nutrients to the soil. Several farmers who experienced losses in the eruption were selected for the country's Cup of Excellence auction earlier this year. Defence targets coffee cups. Australia's defence department is taking aim to cut spending on coffee cups. Department Secretary Nick Warner is confident $1b can be saved each year, and promotional materials such as coffee mugs and stress balls are set in their sights. The fate of the humble receptacles will be decided by a special team, who will also look at reducing inefficient processes, duplicated activities and unnecessary travel. Jura Impressa C5 for the home One of the most popular models in the Jura range, the C5 provides convenience and quality ready to go into almost any kitchen. At just $1,595 the Impressa C5 includes grinder, bean hopper, espresso brewing system and Jura's unique "intelligent pre-brew aroma system - IPBAS. .IPBAS is Swiss for great coffee every time! By this offer during August and also receive 3 Months of Free Coffee (1kg a month for 3 Months) 2 Mugs 2 Espresso Glasses Chocolate Shaker for Cappuccino's Read more online Pass it on . You are welcome to forward this email to other coffee-dazed members of your company. They can subscribe to the Coffee Pot at our subscription page. | Coffee | Specials | News | Machines |

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Adelaide coffee suppliers

5 coffee-aholics made the trip to the city of churchs earlier this week to discuss the latest trends in the office coffee marketplace.

Among the many topics discussed was the launch of a new coffee equipment distribution website at http://www.juraaustralia.com.au/. Designed to bring together the thoughts and products of professional Jura distributors in Australia.

LITTLE INDIA: All of this sight seeing has to take a toll and by 1pm we were ready for some serious local cuisine. We had caught a taxi from the Orchasrd Road to Little India. After a few minutes of wandering through bargain stores, tailors, phone card sellers and, electronic outlets we came across an excellent Indian kitchen.

We ordered Lamb Masala, Chicken curry, yellow rice and chapati. All up S$10.30 (AUD $8.11) for this spread. The meal arrived quickly, about 2 minutes after the order.

A well run family business.

A coffee to remember

ORCHARD ROAD SINGAPORE: Had a rest morning today and took the opportunity to sample this wonderful island nation's coffee. After strolling along Orchard Road past incredibly expensive departments stores we stopped at the franchise coffee store "The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf" located outside Borders book store.

Jeff ordered a machiato ($3.70) and I opted for a long black ($4.30). When my drink was being prepared I noticed that they just poured it from a thermos of drip filter coffee. I wasn't paying $4.0 for that and asked for it to be made fresh, on the espresso machine. He said OK, we'll just substitute your order and make it a double espresso.

When the order did arrive I did indeed have a double shot of espresso measuring about 50ml. Jeff had a machiato which was more a cappuccino in an espresso cup.

So of our two ordered drinks we weren't impressed. We were however happy with the body and flavour of the drinks.

Live Demonstrations at FHA

One thing you can be sure of at Asia's biggest food & hospitality convention is a display of big hats and excellent cooking skills. Many of the halls are scattered with live cooking displays.

The live performance is an excellent medium for equipment manufacturers to have an expert use their wares, show the ease of use and speak in the language of the target audience - food service professionals.

This oven demonstration was in Mandarin but the audience certainly looked interested.

First day in Asia

LITTLE INDIA, SINGAPORE: I arrived into Singapore last night after an uneventful Qantas flight. Meals were nothing to speak or write about. I was seated next to a man whom I thought was a very nervous passenger, constantly referring to his notebook of biblical verses. Turned out he was actually a minister or religion in Singapore for some spiritual preaching.

My hotel is at full capacity for the expo and has turned out to be quite nice given the package deal price I negotiated. Good location in Little India, nice facilities. Breakfast buffet is expansive ranging from Western - Singapore - Indian. This is a snap of the art deco furniture in the hotel foyer while I'm waiting to catch the expo bus.

The 2008 Food&HotelAsia got underway today. Seemed to be a few glitches with registration entry. Exhibitors were all happy working away on their stands. The show, the transport and the people all seem to be very organised.

First Coffee

BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: What an exceptional day. After a cramped morning putting the final touches to my travel plans, my first coffee of the day was finally enjoyed at 12:45pm at Brisbane airport. I wasn't too concerned about the presentation nor the atmosphere....just as long as it had at some stage been extracted from the humble coffee bean.

Airport coffee has undergone a major revamp over the past four years. Two factors have driven this change. The consumer expectation of better quality coffee and the stringent security regime now in force for entering the airport. The extra security means more people arrive at the airport earlier with more time on their hands, more time to drink coffee and buy duty free.

Speaking of duty free the new limitations on carrying liquids through security have done onders for that business. A nice pay back for the effects of lowering duties and internet shopping which both reduced the attractiveness of 'duty free'.

Oh well...next coffee will be the standard Qantas economy offering.

Fine Foods ready to launch

Just a quick note to let you know that the Brisbane Fine Foods Exhibition gets under way tomorrow morning (Sunday 9th March) at 10am at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. Aimed at the professional market it is well worth commerical food operators visiting.

Gilkatho is exhibiting with our new Popcake automatic pancake machine. Stand Q20.(http://www.gilkatho.com.au/shop/Scripts/prodView.asp?idProduct=237)

I walked the show while dodging the forklifts and managed to count over a dozen coffee exhibitors including Coffee Mio, Red Star, Nespresso, Byron Bay Coffee Company, Cafe Deluxe, Cafetto, Cappuccine, Dimattina, Nuova Pine Tea & Coffee, RP Vending, Spilsbury, Zeroz. It will be a tough job selling the coffee story at the event..every person interested one product is also going to be bombared with at least 12 other offers!

If you need a free pass, please call by the Gilkatho office (after 9) on Monday as we have a few remaining from a recent customer promotion.

Sales Workshop

The entire Gilkatho crew headed to Twin Waters on the Sunshine Coast for a serious weekend of business. 

 

The workshop focused on new businenss developments with the impendng release of some new products. 

 

New skills were canvassed which included telephone and fae-to-face communicaitons skills.

 

We were also joined at the  workshop by Judy & Gaelene from Coffee Plus Cairns.

 

I know I'm looking forward to the next workshop in August.  Now, where is a good place for that one?