Coffee & Coronavirus Live Updates

Here you’ll find news on eventuality cancellations, cafeteria closures, and what a attention is doing to do a partial in these rare times. Stay protected y’all, and clean down your phone.

6:30 PM PST Mar 11, 2020

🇦🇺 Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE) deferred until Nov 3-6, 2020. SCA is watchful for an refurbish from a Oregon Convention Center and Travel Portland re: SCA Expo in Portland, Oregon.

SCA CEO Yannis Apostolopoulos writes:

3:55 PM PST Mar 11, 2020

🍴Starbucks Coffee among many coffee bondage temporarily banning personal cups and many self-serve coffee stations are shutting down. California’s Caffe Luxe announces updated ill compensate and grouping policies.

🧵A diminutive thread:

I know we’re all sleepy of hearing/talking about it, though one thing we HAVEN’T unequivocally seen going around is recommendation for what happens if we DO get coronavirus (many of us will), usually recommendation for how to try to AVOID it. So as your accessible area RN, a diminutive thread:

— smashingteacups (@smasheroteacups) March 11, 2020

🐦 “Portland is now open for business,” – Oregon Convention Center / Mar 11, 2020

Coffee folks are dissapoint that SCA hasn’t canceled a large #CoffeeExpo in April. Yet.

Can we stop and cruise what’s going on here? Here’s a couple to a @OregonCC website: https://t.co/y9vcNupF1i pic.twitter.com/cHfvoVga13

— Nick Cho • 조근형 (@NickCho) March 11, 2020

3:00 PM PST Mar 11, 2020

🇫🇷 The Paris Cafe Festival has announced a postponement. Originally set to take place Mar 20-22, it will now take place Jun 5-7.

🗣️ Sprudge contributor and multi-year Sprudgie Award hopeful Jenn Chen is seeking large questions now on Twitter about a 2020 SCA Expo, still *currently* scheduled for April.

I would adore to know what *we* can do- possibly as attendees or exhibitors- to inspire a pierce to cancel or postpone. Do we need some-more voices? Cancelations? If anyone during SCA wants to backchannel me, my DMs are open. https://t.co/JpC8rcQTQV

— Jenn Chen (@thejennchen) March 11, 2020

🗣️ You should watch this video from Manhattan restaurateur Danny Meyer, author of Setting The Table and CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group (whose properties embody Joe Coffee Company).

There’s no existent playbook for how a grill should respond to COVID-19, and so any time there’s even a snippet of doubt about a reserve of a group member or guest, we can always rest on us to act with pinnacle caution. My summary to a staff here: https://t.co/h6syv2XUCA

— Danny Meyer (@dhmeyer) March 11, 2020

2:30 PM PST Mar 11, 2020

🚨 World Health Organization declares a tellurian pandemic.

😷 From a CDC: “Keeping Workplaces, Homes, Schools, or Commercial Establishments Safe” [pdf]

New reserve protocols:

We’re adding to a reserve protocols so we can stay healthy while providing we your coffee. pic.twitter.com/lD6XgGLpPG

— Wrecking Ball Coffee (@Wrecking_Ball) March 11, 2020

Upcoming events:

🇬🇧 UK: London Coffee Festival postponed until Jul 23-26.

🇺🇸 USA: SCA Expo in Portland, OR scheduled as designed Apr 21 – 26

The Specialty Coffee Association Expo in Portland, Oregon expects adult to ~14,000 attendees including ~3,600 general attendees subsequent month.

IKAWA announces it will no longer attend during SCA Expo:

With a complicated heart we have reached a preference to postpone a appearance during Expo Portland in April. In this case, pity is not caring – full matter here. https://t.co/U75GzbCqfr

— IKAWA Coffee (@IKAWAcoffee) March 11, 2020

🇩🇪 Germany: German Barista Finals postponed

🇦🇺 Australia: Melbourne International Coffee Expo / World Barista Championship scheduled as designed May 4 – 7

🇦🇪 UAE: Coffee People Dubai postponed.