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Where am I taking this blog over summer? While off on my summer break from uni, I want to keep this blog up and running, engaging with the cafes and restaurants surrounding not only Falmouth, but other places in the South West that I love. I’m going to be traveling Cornwall, as well as visitingContinue reading “What’s Next?”

Alison DeNisco Rayome (2020). The Too Good To Go app has cut food waste in Europe. Now it could do the same in the US. [online] CNET. Available at: https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/the-too-good-to-go-app-has-cut-food-waste-in-europe-now-it-could-do-the-same-in-the-us/ [Accessed 7 Apr. 2022]. BBC (2019). Watchdog – Food Waste. [online] BBC. Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1s0mD2BKWr2MTPcyt8Gn87w/food-waste [Accessed 7 Apr. 2022]. Buchan, S. (2022). Costa hit with complaints after changingContinue reading “My Sources!”

Creating my business plan for my own coffee shop, it’s so important that I consider as many sustainable options as possible from the start. Following my last blog post, I have researched many routes I can follow to reduce my business’ waste.  While looking at how much food waste is generated I decided this was aContinue reading “What can I include in my business plan to make it more sustainable?”

Every year, coffee shops hand out an estimated 250 billion paper cups (Fresh Cup Magazine 2019), and then 99% of these end up in landfills (KeepCup 2017). However, cups are not the only item which mass produces waste within coffee shops. Food containers, straws, milk cartons, syrup bottles, a small amount of the things thatContinue reading “Waste within Coffee Shops”

Although a plant-based diet is more well received now than ever before, the effect of it is lesser known. The Independent (2021) reported that researchers at Oxford University found that cutting meat and dairy products from your diet can reduce your carbon footprint from food by up to 73%. With carbon footprints being critical inContinue reading “How is veganism sustainable?”

The food and beverage industry is one of the most susceptible to changing trends, micro trends, and local trends. It is heavily influenced by social media, with other countries’ cultures taking a new lead in how people shop and eat. One of 2021’s biggest trends were focusing your diet on being plant based. The GuardianContinue reading “How is the food and beverage industry changing?”

Today’s coffee shop industry brings in £10.1 billion every year, with the market growing by 10% each year and expecting to reach £25 billion in 2025. First appearing in the 17th and 18th Century, coffeehouses were a popular place from people from different backgrounds to meet and gossip and partake in the latest trend – coffee. ItContinue reading “What is the coffee shop industry looking like?”