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Article: Move over, espresso; Coffee.(Clover coffeemaker)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- November 17, 2007
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Where coffee-lovers are in Clover
A new machine could reshape the speciality-coffee business
NEAR the hard-working espresso machine at Ritual Coffee Roasters, a cafe in San Francisco, sits a stainless-steel box about the size of a desktop computer. This box, the Clover, produces a cup of coffee with a spectacle of streaming water, whirring motors and an ingenious inverse plunger. Zander Nosler, the industrial designer who invented the Clover nearly three years ago, seems to have done the impossible: attracted a cult following for a new coffee-making machine that is both slower and vastly more expensive than other machines and requires the undivided attention of a ...