Gourmet Coffee Reviews

North American customers are fed up with bad customer service from e-commerce companies. A newly released consumer survey commissioned by Tealeaf® and Harris Interactive® in September 2007, revealed waves of consumer frustration with issues they are encountering when using ecommerce websites. Most notably, the survey stated, “53% of online users with issues would contact customer service. Of those, almost half (49%) did not have their issue resolved.” While customers are eager to purchase online, their frustrations with e-commerce companies hiding behind virtual storefronts is ever-increasing.

AlpineValleyCoffee.com, an Authorized Keurig® Distributor and e-commerce company selling Keurig® coffee, tea and hot coca K-Cups®, stepped up to answer their customers’ demand for personal and responsive customer service. Alpine Valley Coffee’s efforts have generated a lot of attention and loyal customers even from non-traditional areas.

E-commerce doesn’t exempt businesses from delivering customer service. In reality, the virtual nature of the Web requires that e-commerce sites step-up their customer service efforts to reduce frustrations and improve the customers’ experiences.

AlpineValleyCoffee.com’s team is committed to personal customer service along with continuing to provide the highest total value on K-Cup® coffee, tea and hot cocoa available over the Web.

For more information, visit alpinevalleycoffee.com

HowToDoThings.com, a popular online destination that helps solve people’s everyday problems by providing reliable “how to” instruction on diverse topics, celebrates the world’s most popular bean by providing interesting facts and alternative uses for coffee, in recognition of “Caffeine Awareness Month” in March.

HowToDoThings.com has created a Caffeine Resource Guide written by expert contributors, featuring coffee and caffeine-related articles that cover health, beauty and environmental uses for coffee.

The Guide can be found by visiting their Website.

Java Can Do More Than Jolt Your Senses

Despite the debate that brews over the health dangers and benefits that researchers associate with consuming caffeine, America’s favorite caffeinated drink does have a variety of household uses with low environmental impact and cost.

Did you know that coffee:

* Helps enhance the growth of radishes, carrots and mushrooms?

* Repels insects and other pests in your garden?

* Is a natural exfoliant that improves micro-cellular circulation and breaks up fatty deposits?

* Is a vasoconstrictor that is used in the treatment of migraines?

* Is widely used by “alternative health” enthusiasts as a colon cleansing treatment?

For more information, visit howtodothings.com/caffeine

The Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel’s Wintergarden Café in Chicago, Illinois proudly serves Starbucks for more reasons than the freshly-brewed coffee that they’re known for.

One of the coffee giant’s many mottos is “Good coffee doing good things,” and that’s exactly what Starbucks does. When coffee-lovers indulge in a brewed beverage or treat at the most famous coffee house on the globe, they are doing more than satisfying their appetites, they are helping to support numerous initiatives that promote social, environmental and economic benefits throughout the world.

Starbucks is honored to be a partner that coffee growers and processors are proud to work with and is committed to:

• Paying premium prices for high quality coffee

• Offering fair trade certified, shade grown and organic coffees

• Rewarding coffee producers who participate in CAFÉ (coffee and farmer equity) which practices a set of social and environmental guidelines for buying, processing and buying coffee

• Investing in various loan funds that allow farmers access to affordable credit

• Collaborating through the farmer support center which offers training and technical support

For more information, visit marriott.com

Jalima Coffee in conjunction with Gillies Coffee will host a coffee cupping at the upcoming third annual Coffee and Tea Festival at the Metropolitan Pavilion in NYC on April 12-13, 2008. Attendees will experience a once in a lifetime opportunity to witness a coffee cupping; something quite spectacular, something that most consumers have never, ever seen.

The two day festival will feature everything related to coffee and tea and will offer attendees the opportunity to sample different coffees and teas from around the world. Jalima Coffee was started 3 years ago by three women and lifelong friends, each professionally successful and all at a crossroad looking for a new challenge. A business idea was launched to start a specialty coffee venture to capture the most delicious flavors in the world: high altitude, organically grown coffee, bird friendly from the cloud forests of Mexico and to build a company committed to bio-diversity: social responsibility, economic sustainability and support of preservation of ecological projects and the environment.

For more information, visit coffeeandteafestival.com