Finding a Great Cup of Coffee in San Francisco
San Francisco always seems to have that chill in the night air and there is no better way to take it out than a nice cup of warm coffee. If you live in the area, you are probably all too familiar with the local haunts, but when you are traveling, you are going to need to know where to get a quick cup of coffee and hop on the Internet as well. Here are a few gems that we have found.
If you are looking for strictly coffee and internet, Muddy’s Coffee House (24th Street at Valencia) seems to be the place. The coffee is respectable, but not outstanding. The key to this whole place is the fact that they have Internet access and actually rent computers to the customers if they need them. There are plenty of coffee houses that are going the route of banning computers, so take advantage of this one while you still can.
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Video: Sometimes You Don't Need to Drink Coffee to Get Its Benefits
That morning cup of coffee usually works wonders, but there are times when you may not even need to drink a cup to get the real benefits of coffee. Look at how coffee is perceived by people and you will start to understand where we are going to go with this week's funny coffee video. If you are to peek into someone’s office and see a cup of coffee sitting there, you automatically assume that they have been at work for a while, but is that always so?
Bud Light put out a commercial that had coffee lovers everywhere thanking them for a way to get coffee to enable them to scam their bosses out of full day’s work. It was definitely one of the better ones that I have seen recently and had me looking for the cup that they used on the internet.
The commercial starts out innocently enough with a hot steaming cup of coffee and while I won’t ruin it for you, I will tell you that life would be a lot more interesting if all of us could get our hands on one these things. It is deception at its finest and reminded me of the Campbell’s Soup commercial where the guy always looks busy, but never really accomplishes anything.
Would something like this actually work in the real world, absolutely not, but it is still nice to dream that we could pull something like this off just once. Oh to be able to pull one over on our boss and have the upper hand for just one day. Here is the video of the week, enjoy!
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Coffee Liquors: Get You Coffee Flavor with Some Added Kick
You always hear about this coffee shop or that coffee bean, but what about when you are out for a night on the town and want to have something with a little more kick and still get that coffee flavor. It is unlikely that you are going to want to knock back hot coffee drinks all night, but there is now a great selection of coffee liquors that can keep the party going.
Vodka – over the last two decades, vodkas have expanded their flavors into just about anything that you can think of. While some of the flavors have met with mixed reviews, there is no doubt that coffee lovers absolutely love sipping on their coffee flavored vodka. Van Gogh is the recommendation here as their Double Espresso absolutely hits the stop. It is actually "the only FDA approved vodka" available in stores. It drinks very smoothly and definitely has a great coffee kick to it. While you can get creative with some drinks, I prefer this one on the rocks to sip slowly at the end of a long day or as a nice martini.
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Is Opening a Coffee Shop Still a Viable Option in a Down Economy?
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People are always looking for different opportunities and something that you have read here on several occasions is the possibility of opening up your own coffee shop. With such a push being to save money, it is actually amazing that people are not cutting their coffee shop coffee out of their budgets. It is now at a point that this is a very viable option if you can get yourself attached to the right chain.
To be honest, it may not be the best bet to open up a mom and pop shop. You would hope that any neighborhood would support a small business, but the reality of it is that name recognition goes a long way. You can have two places selling the same exact thing and if one of them is a known label, they are going to be the ones that are busy.
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