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The Second Cup Blog
At Second Cup, we strive to bring you the best quality products and highest customer service – and that’s our main priority. That’s why we’ve introduced our Second Cup blog. It’s an extension of our promise to you, and focuses on your need for information on how to make great coffee, buy sustainable coffees, and enjoy our café culture – along with the occasional pleasant surprise or offer. It’s just our way of showing you that there’s a little love in every cup.
Summer is just around the corner and we’ve come up with new ways for you to cool off and enjoy the season!
New Iced Coffee – if you like our ... More
We’re thrilled to announce a new partnership with Canada’s leading on demand coffee brand, TASSIMO, to produce, market and sell Second Cup signature blend coffees and lattes acrossCanada using the TASSIMO T DISC on-demand beverage system. The partnership marks Second Cup’s official entry into the single serve coffee market.
Second ... More
There’s even more love in every cup, as two leading Canadian-born organizations, Second Cup and Free The Children, announce a long term partnership to connect, engage and provide a space for Canadians to create positive change, ... More
Happy upcoming Easter Holidays!
Please note that some of our cafes will be closed or will have modified hours of operation over the long weekend. (Only those days that are different from the usual hours of operation are listed below.)
If the cafe of your choice will be closed, visit our cafe ... More
Mar
5
Spring is in the air and everyone’s favourite Maple is back. Visit a café near you to try our new line-up of exciting maple-flavoured drinks and baked goods.*
Maple Latte – Our signature spring latte with delicious maple notes, velvety microfoam, and robust espresso taste.
New ... More
Feb
14
Visit a Second Cup café on February 14, 2012 and get a free chocolate with the purchase of any beverage*. Just our way of showing that there is a little love in every cup! ™
*Offer not available with a purchase of bottled ... More
Feb
10
Getting coffee to your cupboards from the mountain-sides of the tropics is a hands-on and labour intensive process involving many steps and many more people. Generally, coffees of the highest quality are picked by hand at the peak of ripeness and are then carried (on the back or shoulders of the picker) to a weighing station, from where ... More
Latte Tuesdays are back!
Every Tuesday from February 7, 2012 until March 27, 2012, enjoy a large handcrafted latte for just $3.49.*
And when you’re in one of our cafés, why not try something new? Introducing ... More
Would you like to brew better tasting coffee? Do you find that the coffee you brew at home doesn’t taste quite as nice as the coffee you buy at your favourite café? This shouldn’t be a surprise. Cafes put a huge amount of time, energy and money into cleaning and maintaining their equipment, controlling the freshness ... More
Question #1: What’s the etymology of the word “coffee”?
Pat Russell, Second Cup’s Coffee Expert : Good question!
“Coffee” first appears in English in the form chaoua in the late 1500s; and is believed to be derived from the Italian word caffe which in turn comes from the Ottoman Turkish ... More
