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Blue Bottle opened additional locations in San Francisco and elsewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area and opened its first New York location in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in 2010. [8] The company-owned stores carry off-menu items such as the "Gibraltar", a form of cortado. [3] In 2012, Blue Bottle received $20 million in venture capital investment. [9]
Doug Dalton is an American entrepreneur, and investor. He is the owner of FutureBars, the parent company of several San Francisco establishments including Bourbon and Branch, Rickhouse, Pagan Idol, Bottle Club Pub, Swig, Lark, Local Edition, Devils Acre, Zombie Village, Nightingale, Gingers and the Cask liquor stores.
Ritual Coffee. Ritual Coffee Roasters is a coffee roaster based in San Francisco, California, with six cafes in San Francisco and Napa. [2] Founded in 2005, [3] Ritual Roasters is considered part of the "third wave of coffee" independent companies which both roast their own beans, wholesale, and operate cafes.
The firm was founded in 1948 in New York by Marshall Skadden, John Slate, and Les Arps. [7] Joseph Flom was hired the same year as the firm's first associate. In 1959, William R. Meagher joined the firm and Elizabeth Head, the firm's first female attorney, was hired. In 1960, the firm's name became Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. [7]
Blue Bottle Coffee Company is a US coffee roaster and retailer headquartered in Oakland, California and considered a major player in third wave coffee. The company was founded by James Freeman in 2002. Blue Bottle currently has stores in the San Francisco Bay Area, LA, New York, Cambridge, Boston, Miami, & Japan.
Sparkletts was sold to Foremost Dairies in 1964, which was in turn acquired by McKesson-Robbins, based in San Francisco. [4] In 2000, Sparkletts was subsumed into the Danone Group [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and in 2003, DS Waters was created, with Sparkletts as one of its bottled water delivery brands.
Original New York Seltzer is a carbonated soft drink. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] It was produced from about 1981 to 1994 by father and son Alan and Randy Miller [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] as a non-caffeinated line of sodas featuring natural flavors with no preservatives or artificial colors.
The Mark Hopkins Hotel was built by George D. Smith [1] on the site of the old Mark Hopkins mansion, which had burned down following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.The hotel was dedicated in 1926, and the penthouse suite was rented exclusively to Daniel C. Jackling, reputedly at US$1,250 (equivalent to $22,000 in 2024) per month, [2] until he moved to his house in Woodside in 1936. [3]