The City Paper examines the pervasiveness of Counter Culture coffee in DC coffee shops and restaurants, a roaster that woos with free barista training and espresso machine installation. Distict Bean's Jonathan Riethmaier points out the obvious downside: "If you're someone that loves coffee and going to different cafés, do you really want to go to the coffee shop on the corner and have their featured coffee of the month, and go to the next one and have their featured coffee, and have it be the same coffee?" [WCP]
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