{"id":392,"date":"2006-10-25T08:17:02","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T13:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=392"},"modified":"2006-10-25T08:17:47","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T13:17:47","slug":"the-mobile-coffee-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/the-mobile-coffee-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mobile Coffee Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a coffee addict and I&#8217;m ok with that. I hand craft my own latte every morning to exacting standards. I consider myself a coffee snob.<\/p>\n<p>Until now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.managesmarter.com\/msg\/content_display\/sales\/e3ilMzAQHc3EHKiVNMFhhK5vQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">If you visit this page<\/a> and look halfway down you will find a picture and description of a mobile espresso maker. For your car. I&#8217;m not kidding &#8211; part of the description:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The heavy-duty plastic coffeemaker plugs into a car&#8217;s cigarette lighter and requires no additional cups or spoons. <strong>Add water<\/strong> and <strong>espresso-grind coffee to the pre-set markings<\/strong> inside the stainless steel inner core, <strong>screw on the top cap and plug it in<\/strong>. Six minutes later, two servings of espresso flow into the <strong>twist-off plastic cup<\/strong> on the bottom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I took the liberty to highlight all of the actions required in your car to make the espresso. And you thought drivers talking on their cell phone was a distraction! How would you like to see me brewing an espresso at 70mph?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a coffee addict and I&#8217;m ok with that. I hand craft my own latte every morning to exacting standards. I consider myself a coffee snob. Until now. If you visit this page and look halfway down you will find a picture and description of a mobile espresso maker. For your car. I&#8217;m not kidding &#8211; part of the description: The heavy-duty plastic coffeemaker plugs into a car&#8217;s cigarette lighter and requires no additional cups or spoons. Add water and espresso-grind coffee to the pre-set markings inside the stainless steel inner core, screw on the top cap and plug it in. Six minutes later, two servings of espresso flow into&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/the-mobile-coffee-shop\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-6k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":756,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/756\/","url_meta":{"origin":392,"position":0},"title":"Espresso U","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 16, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We are coffee house aficionados as I have mentioned in previous posts. One of my goals is to be a barista some day. Now a Pioneer Press article describes a coffee university - Enrollment grows at Espresso U. I now have a new motivator! 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The article points to some specific, subtle marketing principles incorporated by the ever-expanding Starbuck's chain: It has everything to do with the marketing strategy behind this designer coffee chain, which\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Marketing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":714,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/coffee-and-blizzards\/","url_meta":{"origin":392,"position":5},"title":"Coffee and Blizzards","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"As a proud coffee addict, I am please to see this Managesmarter.com article titled Coffee, Please.\u00a0 For the past 2 days, we've been dealing with blizzard conditions, thunder snow (seriously - there is such a thing), well over a foot of snow and closed interstate highways.\u00a0 Yet it is all\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/windowslivewritercoffee-5f7ecoffee-in-hand-thumb6.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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