Introducing the Cafedirect Foodservice Eco-Toolkit

Posted by Whitney, October 28th, 2011, Comments (0)
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Since our first carbon footprint back in 2005, we’ve known that the carbon impact associated with consuming our products makes up the majority of the product’s footprint. Consumption is considered to be any activity related to eating or drinking a product such as kettle boiling.  This is especially true with … Read more

Guest blog from The People’s Supermarket

Posted by Cafédirect, September 16th, 2011, Comments (0)
After days of relentlessly phoning around local restaurants and hotels for donations of kitchenware and dining equipment for our Supper Club event, it was a simple tweet that caught the attention of Cafédirect’s HQ, who replied saying they’d love to get involved… A quick phone call later and Cafédirect had … Read more

Caffe Culture – The After Show!

Posted by Cafédirect, May 23rd, 2011, Comments (0)
The kilner jars full of coffee beans are securely packed, the crockery surrounded in bubble wrap and my fingers are tinted brown from the coffee grinding and truffle making – this can only mean one thing: Caffe Culture is over for another year. Last Wednesday and Thursday was an intense … Read more

Caffe Culture 2011 – see you there!

Posted by Cafédirect, May 16th, 2011, Comments (0)
This Wednesday and Thursday (18th & 19th May) brings the eagerly anticipated Caffe Culture show to Olympia in London.  Brimming with hot drink brands and all the cafe related products and paraphernalia you could ever think of (and those you couldn’t) it’s the highlight of the year for the café … Read more

The Cafédirect Experience at Caffe Culture

Posted by Cafédirect, June 30th, 2010, Comments (0)
I am happy to report that the last cappuccino cup has just been unwrapped after our Caffe Culture adventure! We had a fantastic week meeting up with our customers,  practising our latte art and watching the World Barista Champions (and our Barista Simone!) show us how it’s done properly. Simone’s … Read more

Machu Puccino and more….

Posted by Cafédirect, June 21st, 2010, Comments (1)
Over the last few months I’ve been busy making ‘the Cafédirect experience’ come to life. A bit like the famous beer company- if Cafédirect did coffee shops… how would we make them the best in the world? Well, if you’re one of our trade customers, you can come and see … Read more

Mega purchasing power: Bring us to your Uni!

Posted by Whitney, March 11th, 2010, Comments (1)
On Tuesday I had the pleasure of attending an Environmental Technology MSc seminar at Imperial College London.  I was there  with our Head of Supply Chain, Paul Rodin, to speak to the students about how we take on the challenge of being a sustainable company. One of the most interesting … Read more

Make the office tea round fair – with a Big Swap to Cafédirect!

Posted by Siobhan, February 24th, 2010, Comments (0)
Are you the person who always makes the tea or coffee at work? Almost six million British workers claim they couldn’t get through the day without a cuppa. But the humble brew has become the cause for some unlikely battles between colleagues. We recently conducted a survey of 3,000 workers … Read more

Friend of the Month – Simone Guerini Rocco

Posted by Yasmin, November 17th, 2009, Comments (0)
Simone works as a barista trainer for Peros, who make sure that Cafédirect gets to the thousands of schools, cafés, hospitals, Universities and workplaces that serve our delicious hot drinks. He’s been into the Cafédirect office to teach us all how to make the perfect cappuccino, and  makes great … Read more

The places you'll find us …

Posted by Whitney, September 14th, 2009, Comments (1)
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at the opening of a new cafe on the campus of the University of East Anglia.  The fine catering staff there made the excellent decision to stock Cafédirect products and I went along to tell the opening-day patrons why it was … Read more
 
 
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