SAN FRANCISCO – A new cafe culture is brewing in the San Francisco area, where a growing number of coffee houses are banishing paper to-go cups and replacing them with everything from glass jars to rental mugs and BYO cup policies. ADVERTISEMENTCelebrated chef Dominique Crenn, owner of the three-star Michelin restaurant Atelier Crenn, is opening a San Francisco cafe next year that will have no to-go bags or disposable coffee cups and will use no plastic. Also this year, San Francisco International Airport became the nation’s first major airport to stop selling water in plastic bottles. Starting in January, cafes and restaurants in Berkeley will charge 25 cents for disposable cups, and San Francisco is considering similar legislation. Many coffee drinkers in the San Francisco area are taking Blue Bottle’s announcement in stride.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 24, 2019 07:07 UTC