Stunning simplicity. Branding a distinctive ape allows Brooklyn based coffee house complete mindshare of the ape=strong coffee market.
Ethiopian Coffee
Ethiopian coffee break with @scottharrison @vikharrison after a good day of shooting in the field.
Thought this was a great image.
Farleys Coffee on 18th Street
Reading Why the Starbucks “15th Ave” Store Is Doomed to Fail on HBR in which Peter Merholz talks about the dishonestly behind a new concept coffee shop called 15th Ave, that tried to capture the lost magic of Starbucks.
My favorite San Francisco coffeehouse, Farley’s, which is amateurish (and I mean that by its Latin root: done for the love) and personal. Faking it is not a good strategy in bed or in retail. Perhaps my biggest beef with 15th Ave is that it’s fundamentally dishonest. Everyone knows it’s run by Starbucks, but the website and the store do all they can to suggest it’s a true independent (though the high level of interior design suggests a bankroll out of the reach of most entrepreneurs).
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