When you tip at a restaurant, you assume that money is going to the waiting staff and kitchen porters. And while that’s partly because you feel they deserve it (or need it, given the struggles of zero hour contracts and minimum wage pay), it’s also because you deserve to know where your money is going. […]
Marcus Carvalho. It’s a name that, if you’re a veteran Pact Coffee fan, you’ve probably heard before. After all, we talk about him a lot… (here, here, and here… and here’s another, and one more). And although we work with over 200 farmers, we’re going to do it again. Any one of those […]
Coffee and cake. They’re a perfect match. Sugary buttercream, cloying jam, soft sponge – and cut through by a sip of something hot, black and delicious. Mmm. And now we’re hungry. And that’s why we’re getting excited for what is (in our humble opinion) one of the best days of the year. Beating any bank […]
Remember those long summers, filled with burnt sausages, drippy 99s, and sandy picnics that slowly merged into trips to WHSmiths to pick up a shiny new pencil case, and Clarks for some sensible school shoes? Me neither – that was yonks ago. But that ‘back to school’ feelings hits us all. Whether we’ve got our […]
Watching the news is pretty stressful lately. Whether it’s (a lack of) Brexit developments, Trump’s latest fanatical fixation, or the state of the pound sterling, things don’t look great. And the sight of the Amazon rainforest on fire isn’t really helping matters… Brazil’s had a rough time of it, weather-wise. From the ‘earth’s lungs’ burning, […]