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		<title>Can a Coffee Chain Expand and Keep Quality?</title>
		<link>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2010/02/03/can-a-coffee-chain-expanded-and-keep-quality/</link>
		<comments>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2010/02/03/can-a-coffee-chain-expanded-and-keep-quality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail one of my favorite newspapers has a really decent article on micro-chain café expansion. They talk with Willie Mounzer, co-owner of Caffé Artigiano, Vince Piccolo of 49th Parallel and John Neate of JJ Bean and some guy from Starbucks PR. It is a really in-depth and decent article and sums up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transparency of a review</title>
		<link>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2009/05/07/transparency-of-a-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 20:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well our little yelp got a lot of traffic and while we don’t like to cause controversy we just found the entire experience a little odd. I feel we can describe this issue using the selling of coffee beans as an example. Summer of 2007 I went to Victoria and checked out the Murchie&#8217;s Government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;ll always remember your first ~ How I got banned from Yelp</title>
		<link>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2009/05/06/how-i-got-banned-from-yelp/</link>
		<comments>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2009/05/06/how-i-got-banned-from-yelp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 15:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I joined Yelp weeks ago just to see what it was all about. I hadn&#8217;t really done anything with it until I was contacted by Crystal H. last week, who looks like a normal user but is actually staff for Yelp and has the title of new community manager for Yelp Vancouver. She asked where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do I torture myself?</title>
		<link>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2009/04/29/why-do-i-torture-myself/</link>
		<comments>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2009/04/29/why-do-i-torture-myself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://coffeevancouver.ca/?p=1624</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To you coffee aficionados, this is one post you might want to skip. To those of you who see a savvy marketing campaign, and curiosity that can&#8217;t be killed along with free stuff, well, read on but don&#8217;t say I didn&#8217;t warn you. . . When I heard that McDonalds had come up with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drive Notes part one</title>
		<link>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2008/06/16/drive-notes-part-one/</link>
		<comments>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2008/06/16/drive-notes-part-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another chain on the drive. Tim Hortons has decided to take over three stores in the mall and create a behemoth of coffee shops almost the size of Wazubee’s. This also comes at a time when Magpie magazine and Eastside Art Supply and Stationary are both closing its doors due to lack of sales. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You have bean Verified</title>
		<link>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2008/06/14/you-have-been-verified/</link>
		<comments>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2008/06/14/you-have-been-verified/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vancouvercoffee.wordpress.com/?p=151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is only included in the archives to show how wrong I was about Fair Trade Coffee. Verification is very subjective and the term fair trade is poorly used term by marketers. I hope to investigate more in the coming months. You don&#8217;t need verification to be classified as fair trade or organic, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No lucky Clover</title>
		<link>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2008/03/31/no-lucky-clover/</link>
		<comments>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2008/03/31/no-lucky-clover/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vancouvercoffee.wordpress.com/?p=136</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I heard that Clover sold to Starbucks. I was shocked and couldn&#8217;t believe it. Well, I am sure that the folks over at Clover made a tied profit off this and yet I wonder if this was the final end-game for the Zander Nosler and Randy Hulett. I am not a conspiracy theorist, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ground Zero (The Starbucks Paradox)</title>
		<link>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2007/12/30/ground-zero-the-starbucks-paradox/</link>
		<comments>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2007/12/30/ground-zero-the-starbucks-paradox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cafe Review]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vancouvercoffee.wordpress.com/2007/12/30/ground-zero-the-starbucks-paradox/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is kinda odd to walk all the independent shops of Pike Place Market seeing all the fresh fish, local produce and general buzz of a local market place only to run into one of the largest corporate chains in North America. Pike Place The location has three cashiers and two barista’s working a three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re Back</title>
		<link>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2007/10/06/were-back/</link>
		<comments>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2007/10/06/were-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey thanks for sticking around, I have finished my second semester of New Media and design BCIT and it was one toughest hardest school semesters I have ever completed. It was an incredible amount of work and I survived. Recovering from the semester I decided to head down to my local video store Black Dog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Americano Smackdown</title>
		<link>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2007/07/12/americano-smackdown/</link>
		<comments>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2007/07/12/americano-smackdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vancouvercoffee.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/americano-smackdown-i/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well Michael Breuer decided to challenge me on my hatred of Starbucks and although it took a while to get the dates confirmed, (his people needed to talk to my people) We set out last Friday to the home of Coffee in Vancouver Commercial Dr and we picked our corners. First we attended the Starbucks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BYOM Bring Your Own Mug</title>
		<link>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2007/05/29/byom-bring-your-own-mug/</link>
		<comments>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2007/05/29/byom-bring-your-own-mug/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 04:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, while I was standing in line for my morning fix, I saw a sign that read, 20 percent off your drink if you bring your own mug I thought it was a cool idea, as most shops have done the 10 cents off your own cup for a couple of years now, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friends don&#8217;t let friends drink Starbucks. . .</title>
		<link>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2007/05/11/friends-dont-let-friends-drink-starbucks/</link>
		<comments>http://coffeevancouver.ca/2007/05/11/friends-dont-let-friends-drink-starbucks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 00:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vancouvercoffee.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/friends-dont-let-friends-drink-starbucks/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back, way back in the early years of the 90s I loved Starbucks. I couldn&#8217;t get enough of this new drug. I have even been to the first ever Starbucks in Pike Place Market, Seattle. I mean I was a fan. I was used to coffee from McDonalds, BC Ferries and Petro Can. But this [...]]]></description>
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