Plant milks, canned coffee, revamps
Pacific Foods previewed a pistachio Barista Series plant milk at the World Latte Art Competition—formulated with baristas for both hot and cold drinks (perishablenews.com). Campus entrepreneurship and neighborhood coffee scenes are moving fast: University of Richmond students turned a campus coffee project into a retail canned brand called RALI, Princeton’s Small World Coffee is revamping breakfast and grab‑and‑go menus, and New York still lists nearly 1,000 top‑rated independent shops to explore ( ).
Pacific Foods will bring its new Pistachio Barista Series to World of Coffee San Diego, April 10–12, and serve as Gold sponsor of the 20th Annual World Latte Art Competition. (perishablenews.com) (usa.worldofcoffee.org) The company says the Pistachio Barista milk was developed with professional baristas and refined through “hundreds of hours” of tasting, testing, steaming and pouring to perform in both hot and cold beverages. (nombase.com) (bevnet.com) Attendees can sample Pistachio at Pacific’s booth #3227, where the brand plans “dynamic tastings” and signature beverage demonstrations across the three-day show. (sprudge.com) University of Richmond seniors launched RALI as part of the school’s Bench Top Innovations two‑semester entrepreneurship course; the canned drink contains 20 grams of protein and added electrolytes and is now available on store shelves in the Richmond area. (wtvr.com) (henricocitizen.com) Small World Coffee introduced new breakfast sandwiches at its Nassau Street location on March 16 and says it will roll out a grab‑and‑go line at both of its Princeton locations, with seasonal menus planned in the coming weeks. (dailyprincetonian.com) (smallworldcoffee.com) Estimates for New York’s coffee scene vary by methodology: Perfect Daily Grind reported about 1,571 specialty cafés in New York City in August 2024, while a July 2025 analysis counted 1,744 coffee shops and 956 cafés across the five boroughs. (perfectdailygrind.com) (brewani.com) Commercial business databases list broader tallies—for example, POIData records 4,807 coffee-shop businesses in New York state as of March 2026, which illustrates why single‑figure claims like “nearly 1,000” depend on which categories and geography are counted. (poidata.io)
