Recently, Intelligentsia Coffee Inc., one of specialty coffee’s most pioneering and innovative brands, launched two types of K-cups for the new Keurig models. If you’ve tried Keurig coffee before, ...

The former executive claims he’s owed a cut from the company’s recent sale to Peet’s Coffee & Tea. Buono served as co-CEO of the independent coffee company from 2010 to 2014, and the lawsuit claims he ...

The recent Peet’s Coffee & Tea acquisition of the esteemed third-wave coffee pioneers Stumptown Coffee Roasters and Intelligentsia Coffee sent shockwaves through the specialty beverage community last ...

Managers at Intelligentsia Coffee closed their five Chicago stores two hours early July 5 to call its cafe workers to a mandatory meeting. A month earlier, baristas had filed for a union ...

As Starbucks Workers United racks up victory after victory in union elections across the country, workers at Intelligentsia Coffee — a small, specialty coffee company based in Chicago — are also ...

Ashok Selvam is the former James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater’s Midwest region, in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He’s a native Chicagoan and had been ...

Naomi Waxman is the former reporter for Eater Chicago and an award-winning journalist who covers restaurants, bars, pop-ups. Pro-union staff at Intelligentsia’s six city cafes and its Chicago Roasting ...

The Russian language boasts a formidable literary tradition. A handful of Russian words have made their way into English agitprop, apparatchik, commissar, gulag, Kalashnikov, nomenklatura, pogrom, ...

It built a hip niche coffee brand by promising to ensure that the farmers who grow its coffee beans are fairly paid. But in an ironic twist, Chicago-based Intelligentsia Coffee is being sued by its ...

Google allows its engineers to devote 20% of their full-time jobs to “work on what they're really passionate about.” Similarly, Harvard & Stone has a “R&D bar” for visiting mixologists to beta test ...