A New Jersey coffee company owner said on Wednesday that supply chain disruptions and labor shortages has led to higher prices for consumers. “We had to raise our prices approximately 90 cents at this point to our customer,” David Mendez, the CEO of WB Law Coffee in Newark, told FOX Business’ Lydia Hu during a live interview on “Mornings with Maria.” Mendez went on to say that the current economic climate is “absolutely impacting everything that we’re doing where we are having to buy coffee much further out just to make sure that it’s here on time and being able to get take coffee out to our customers.” “Everything has to be planned much further in advance,” he continued. Price...

In the past year, have you had had delays in receiving orders, or have you received incorrect orders? I’ve got to assume yes. The sweeping effects of the pandemic have put a spotlight on food and employee safety and how to stabilize supply chains. Without full employment of your trained employees, you can’t operate at full capacity and with minimized issues. How do we prevent that? Our small family owned business put a major emphasis on food safety culture before it was a mainstream topic. In the news and within conversations with other business owners, I’ve heard countless stories of how the virus wiped out entire departments causing massive disruptions. The meat industry was a casualty in the early part...

Picture this. It’s a sunny 72-degree day. You’re meeting a friend for a drink at your favorite restaurant but you realize – “Wait! I haven’t had my coffee today! How did THAT happen?” So, you stroll up and grab a seat at the bar and, twiddling your fingers, wonder, “Should I have a cocktail or should I have coffee?” The answer: BOTH! Enter the Cold Brew Coffee Cocktail (Try saying that 5 times in a row!) Coffee is no longer just a coffee shop beverage. Bars and restaurants across the country are including cold brew coffee as a key ingredient in their cocktail line-up. Cold brew coffee, a beverage that has been revolutionizing the coffee world, is stepping up to...

Coffee Takes A Village Who does the general public typically deem the “hero” in producing their cups of coffee? Well I’d say 9 out of 10 times people credit the roaster or the barista. You know the roasters… they’re the people you see in interviews discussing how they balanced out the coffee roaster’s core temperature and achieve the perfect heat over time curve. This pairing of their uniquely sourced bean to the roast curve achieves the perfect taste profile which was intended. Meanwhile, the baristas are the visible “artist,” pouring the latte art, and physically serving the cup of coffee to the caffeine-craved consumer. But who calibrated the barista’s equipment to produce that perfect cup of coffee that the roaster...

The coffee industry could, in fact, pop. Yes, I know the coffee industry as a whole, doesn’t want to hear or believe this. However, when you’ve been in business as long as my company has (WB Law Coffee, Since 1909), and have an understanding of simple economics, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out. There’s a coffee consolidation happening. There has been and will continue to be closures, mergers and acquisitions of coffee retailers/ roasters. The fact is there will be less coffee roasters and retailers in the marketplace over the next few years, but is that a bad thing? Let’s go back. The year is 2007 and the U.S. is going through the worst financial crisis...

Today, August 16, 2016,Eddie Mills will reach quite the milestone! It was on this day back in 1967 that he walked through the doors of 265 Thomas Street in Newark, NJ for his first day on the job and was immediately greeted by the pleasantly sweet smell of coffee. And now on the start of his 50thyear with Law Coffee Co. he still walks through those same doors and that smell, which he is not yet immune to, still greets him. Mills began working for Law Coffee on August 16, 1967. He doesn’t hesitate at all in recalling the exact date. Born in Oxford, NC Mills moved to New Jersey in April 1964 as a young man simply seeking work....