These six cafes dare to compete with Starbucks, bragging or do they really have something?
Secret: blue bottle is famous for its freshly roasted organic coffee beans and never sells coffee that has been roasted for more than 48 hours. The founder has an almost crazy love and dedication to coffee, from utensils to coffee production "ingenuity", the store provides Italian style, hand flushing, siphon, ice droplets and so on. Not long ago, he received an investment of US $70 million, coupled with the pursuit of coffee perfection, to apply professional experience to every aspect of coffee production.
NO.2
INTELLIGENTSIA intellectual Coffee
Founded in 1995, Chicago, Illinois
Stores: 10, located in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York.
Unique secret: intellectuals are famous for developing trade relations with growers directly in the 1990s and have maintained a good reputation among consumers for many years. The shop uses professional coffee equipment, strictly trains every barista, and supplies coffee bean products to other cafes. In Chicago, intellectuals have become synonymous with good coffee, not only with excellent beans, but also with a unique design style. After getting the investment from Peet's Coffee & Tea, it was only a matter of time before he became famous.
NO.3
Stumptown stump coffee
Founded in 1999, Portland, Oregon
Stores: 10 in Portland, Seattle, New York and Los Angeles
Unique secret: in line with the business philosophy of "making the best coffee with the best coffee beans in the world", we directly establish long-term and friendly cooperative relations with farmers to provide high-quality coffee and coffee beans. Founder DUANE SORENSON is known as the leader of the "third wave of coffee movement". Both stumps and intellectuals have received investment from Peet's Coffee & Tea.
NO.4
La Colombe
Founded in 1994, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Stores: 14 in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, and there are reports that 150 + stores will be opened in the next few years.
Unique secret: La Colombe provides consumers with high-quality coffee and pays attention to product innovation. There is no menu, wifi, decoration and various product packaging in the store. Todd Carmichael, the founder, is also a coffee master and is good at creating popular topics for the brand. Meanwhile, La Colombe received a huge investment of $28.5 million in 2014.
NO.5
Revelator Coffee Company
Founded in 2014, Birmingham
Stores: 5 in Nashville, Birmingham, New Orleans, Chattanooga and Atlanta, with 3 expected to open in 2016
Secret: other coffee chains on this list are based on coastal areas, with a relatively strong coffee culture, while Revelator Coffee focuses on the south. It features iced coffee and coffee cocktails, works with local chefs to provide delicious dishes, and attaches great importance to product innovation.
NO.6
Counter Culture counter-culture coffee
Founded in 1995, Durham, Carolina
Unique secret: working directly with farmers to purchase coffee beans, focusing on coffee bean roasting and coffee teaching, supplying coffee shops all over the east coast of the United States and beyond, and leading the third wave of boutique coffee

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China's first coffee testing laboratory starts construction
It was learned from Yunnan Pu 'er Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau that the construction of the national key coffee testing laboratory was started in Pu' er City, marking the birth of the only national coffee product professional laboratory in Yunnan Province. Coffee cultivation in Pu 'er City began at the end of the 19th century and began to develop industrially in 1988. In 2015, the coffee planting area of the whole city was 757,000 mu, with 402,300 mu put into production and 39,900 tons of output.
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Starbucks faces Challenge: multi-Coffee Brands compete for Chinese Market
Starbucks is always a brand with no shortage of topics. Recently, there are media reports in the United States, a Chicago woman sued Starbucks for $5 million because there were too many ice cubes in cold drinks. The news drew attention to Starbucks, which was widely questioned about its high pricing in China. A large amount of money is claimed for more ice in a drink, which is for Chinese consumers
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