Comments on: Kona Coffee: Success Despite the Odds http://www.lauralake.com/kona-coffee-success-despite-the-odds/39/ by Laura Lake Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:29:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Clara Walters http://www.lauralake.com/kona-coffee-success-despite-the-odds/39/comment-page-1/#comment-23653 Clara Walters Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:11:45 +0000 http://www.lauralake.com/?p=39#comment-23653 I went diving off the big island a few years ago. Having never been to Hawaii, it was a treat beyond belief! While touring, we stopped at a place that grew and sold Kona coffee. That coffee was the living end for flavor! I brought some back and rationed it until it was gone. There has never been any like it and we would love to purchase more Kona...it brews heaven in a cup! Clara I went diving off the big island a few years ago. Having never been to Hawaii, it was a treat beyond belief! While touring, we stopped at a place that grew and sold Kona coffee. That coffee was the living end for flavor! I brought some back and rationed it until it was gone. There has never been any like it and we would love to purchase more Kona…it brews heaven in a cup! Clara

]]> By: Kona Coffee Beans http://www.lauralake.com/kona-coffee-success-despite-the-odds/39/comment-page-1/#comment-12232 Kona Coffee Beans Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:03:29 +0000 http://www.lauralake.com/?p=39#comment-12232 Way to go! Starbucks just can not compete with premium coffees like Kona. If served with a smile and personal tuch, that's even better!!! Way to go! Starbucks just can not compete with premium coffees like Kona. If served with a smile and personal tuch, that’s even better!!!

]]> By: Hawaii Vacation Gifts http://www.lauralake.com/kona-coffee-success-despite-the-odds/39/comment-page-1/#comment-7795 Hawaii Vacation Gifts Tue, 15 May 2007 13:26:22 +0000 http://www.lauralake.com/?p=39#comment-7795 Aloha, I just wrote two posts, one on the popularity of Starbucks in Hawaii and how Kona coffee is not their best seller, and the other on how the farmers on the big island of Hawaii are fighting to keep their kona coffee name from being associated with mediocre kona coffee blended products. Aloha,
I just wrote two posts, one on the popularity of Starbucks in Hawaii and how Kona coffee is not their best seller, and the other on how the farmers on the big island of Hawaii are fighting to keep their kona coffee name from being associated with mediocre kona coffee blended products.

]]> By: james dipadua http://www.lauralake.com/kona-coffee-success-despite-the-odds/39/comment-page-1/#comment-6793 james dipadua Mon, 07 May 2007 18:55:22 +0000 http://www.lauralake.com/?p=39#comment-6793 i only go to starbucks as a last-resort. the coffee is purely mediocre. the service is okay but they're always so full of people getting "frilly desert-like drinks", it's absolutely no surprise they cannot provide the kind of service necessary to build <i> true <b> brand loyalty</b></i>. true brand loyalty at a coffee shop will invariably require that the baristas know how to pull a shot of espresso--and pushing a button for the number of shots is a great way to insure that the "barista" is really just a "burger flipper." i only go to starbucks as a last-resort.

the coffee is purely mediocre. the service is okay but they’re always so full of people getting “frilly desert-like drinks”, it’s absolutely no surprise they cannot provide the kind of service necessary to build true brand loyalty. true brand loyalty at a coffee shop will invariably require that the baristas know how to pull a shot of espresso–and pushing a button for the number of shots is a great way to insure that the “barista” is really just a “burger flipper.”

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