Ethan Miller

How Satake sorts the good beans form the bad

In the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, golden chocolate eggs are placed on an eggdicator scale to determine if they’re good or bad. Good eggs are shipped out. Bad eggs go down the garbage chute into the incinerator. Even spoilt child Veruca Salt is sent down the garbage chute. When it comes to separating good green or roasted beans from bad, the same theory applies using Satake’s range of optical sorters.  Sid Jain, Satake Australia’s Optical Sorting Sales Engineer, says having a clean bean is the difference between a good flavour in the cup and an excellent one. 
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La Marzocco sponsors first Milan Coffee Festival

The Milan Coffee Festival is making its debut this year, opening its doors for the first time in Italy from 30 November to 2 December. The festival will play host to Milan’s growing specialty coffee community at the Spazio Pelota venue in Italy. Sponsoring the event, La Marzocco will host a large booth celebrating the community and those who are passionate about great coffee. Dedicated areas for the Leva X and the new Modbar AV will give event goers a close-up look at the latest products from the Modbar and La Marzocco family.
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Cafetto

Cafetto opens Adelaide distribution centre

On 23 November, Australia-based cleaning company Cafetto opened a new distribution centre in Adelaide, near the company’s Brompton factory and head office. Cafetto Managing Director Christopher Short says the location of the new distribution centre is key to it being able to operate efficiently.
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Christmas campaign

MICE announces 2019 Christmas Campaign

The Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE) will hold the MICE2019 Christmas Campaign from 3 to 7 December 2018. The giveaway will involve products from exhibitors such as Rancilio, Puretec, Kuvings, Barista Technology, Chai Spice, Porter Green, Freedom Foods, Vertue Coffee, The Bag Broker, Coffee Supreme, and Moccamaster Australia. 
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Merlo Coffee

Merlo Coffee and BioPak launch compostable cup service

Merlo Coffee has become the first coffee business in Queensland to take part in BioPak’s compostable cup service. Customers at Merlo owned cafés will be served takeaway coffee in BioPak single wall cups made from plants, rather than crude oil. The used cups can be disposed of in special composting bins at each Merlo store, along with food scraps, packaging and coffee grounds.
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employees with disability

DSS report finds employees with disability overlooked by food service industry

A Department of Social Services research report has found that more than half of Australian businesses in the food industry are overlooking employees with disability during the hiring process. Though 78 per cent of the approximately 1200 respondents say they are open to hiring people with disability, only 45 per cent say they are currently employing someone with a disability.
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DineSmart

DineSmart 2018 to fight homelessness this Christmas

StreetSmart has launched DineSmart 2018, a campaign that sees venues ask diners to leave a small donation on their bill to fight homelessness. This year, there are more than 125 participating restaurants and the campaign, which hopes to raise at least $250,000 for homelessness projects during the busy run into Christmas.
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