Caribou Coffee announced this week they were closing 11 of the 14 stores here in Charlotte.  The only stores to be spared the chopping block were the Park Road Shopping Center, Founders Hall and Fairview.  Why are they basically pulling out of

We ran into Bob Fetterolf who is the Senior Manager for Real Estate for Burger King .  He told us that BK is offering $1 Lattes this week.  That is right you can get their coffee house style lattes for just one dollar that are made with Seattle's Best Coffe

Coffee giant Starbucks has announced they will open locations in Vietnam in 2013.  The Seattle based chain has over 20,000 locations in 61 countries.  I was watching an Oliver Stone special on the Vietnam war on Showtime the other night and thought it was a

Bruegger's Bagels will be offering free coffee today until 2 pm.  It is a fundraiser for the Children's Miracle Network and donation jars will be next to the cash register and patrons are encouraged to help out.  Bruegger's has 8 area locations so everyone

Krispy Kreme opened this week in Cotswold.  Krispy Kreme gave away free doughnuts for the first 100 people in line.  They also gave away t-shirts and the first person in line got doughnuts for the entire year which they will probably regret at their annual

I have known about Sheetz for a long time, way before they started building their unique gas stations in North Carolina.  They are based in Altoona, Pennsylvania and that is also where my wife is from.  So I was hearing about Sheetz and Yuengling Beer long b

Starbucks is pushing beyond coffee with the opening of its first Evolution Fresh retail juice store.  No they are not opening the first Evolution Fresh here in Charlotte in fact it is about as far away as you can get from here and still be in the continental

Einstein Bagels is about to open their first Ballantyne location in the former Ikos Aegean Grill site on Conlan Circle behind the City Range Restaurant.  Restaurant Traffic knew Ikos was going to have a tough time when all we heard about from customers was t

A couple months ago a close family friend recommended I visit Cast Iron Waffles out in Blakeney. Being that I'm Belgian, I love waffles, and the family running this charming breakfast spot is from Chicago like myself, I added them to the short list of restaur

          Mick's Picks: On the way to Oak Island to meet our wives last weekend, Adam recommended I hit up Central Coffee Co. the next time I was in Plaza/Midwood and in the mood for coffee.