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Rebecca Connors • September 14, 2026

How to Make the Most of Live Scores on Game Day

During a big game, guests tend to order around the action: before kick-off, at half-time, after a goal, and when the final score comes in. Ripples’ Live Scores lets your team add those moments directly to drinks using ready-to-print designs that update as the score changes. The feature is included with the Ripples’ Advanced Design

Rebecca Connors • September 14, 2026

How Cafés Can Profit From the Home-Espresso Boom

More customers can now make a good espresso without leaving home. That sounds like a challenge for cafés, and for routine coffee purchases, it can be. A customer with an espresso machine, grinder, and favorite beans may no longer need to stop at a café every morning just to get a cappuccino. But home espresso

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Rebecca Connors • September 14, 2026

Recipe: Bloody Moon Cherry-Mocha Latte

Get your café ready for Halloween with the Bloody Moon Cherry Mocha Latte, a rich cherry-chocolate drink made for spooky menus, themed events, and seasonal specials. Finished with a dramatic red cherry drip and a smooth cream layer, it creates the perfect surface for a Halloween design printed with the Ripple Maker, turning every drink

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Rebecca Connors • September 7, 2026

How Pink Dot Turns Every Coffee Into a Little Escape

When you step into Pink Dot, one of Thessaloniki’s most recognizable cafés, you immediately feel like it belongs in a fairy tale. From floral walls and oversized pink hearts to elegant Italian teacups and personalized coffees, every detail has been carefully designed to make guests smile before they even take their first sip. For founder

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Rebecca Connors • August 25, 2026

Recipe: Biscoff Cold Foam Latte

This Fall Biscoff latte layers an espresso base with a rich Biscoff cold foam cap, built for a drink that looks as good as it tastes. Warm cookie butter flavor over iced espresso makes it an easy fit for autumn menus, café counters, or any venue looking to ease guests into cooler-weather drinks. Ingredients The

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Rebecca Connors • August 23, 2026

Ripples’ Design with AI: Turn Guest Ideas Into Shareable Drink Experiences

The best marketing idea in your venue right now might come from a guest, not your team. With ‘Design with AI’, Ripples’ new feature in the Ripples Web App for customers with the Advanced Design Plan, guests can describe what they want to see on their drink – whether it’s a birthday message, a funny

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Rebecca Connors • August 19, 2026

Your Regulars Don’t Need Another Discount. They Need Recognition.

Pursuing more loyal customers, café owners launch loyalty apps, print a punch card, offer another “Buy 9, Get the 10th Free” deal. There’s nothing wrong with rewards, but do these tactics create loyal customers, or simply reward people who were already coming back? According to the National Coffee Association‘s 2024 National Coffee Data Trends report,

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Rebecca Connors • August 18, 2026

Ripples’ Live Scores: Make Your Venue the Place to Watch Every Game

Live sports create some of the most valuable moments for bars, restaurants, hotels, cafés, and hospitality venues. Every goal, touchdown, end of a quarter, or final score is a moment when guests gather together at your venue, order another round, take out their phones, and become part of the atmosphere around them. Ripples Live Scores

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Rebecca Connors • August 2, 2026

How ‘Intentional Espresso’ Turns Coffee Into an Interactive Brand Experience

The team at Intentional Espresso, a specialty coffee catering company based in the Pacific Northwest, knows that the best events stay with people long after they end. That’s why they designed their coffee bar to create moments that feel personal, intentional, and worth talking about. Owned by Randy Matheny and co-owned by Katie Matheny, Intentional

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Rebecca Connors • July 28, 2026

How Astro Coffee Turns Coffee Into an Event Experience

At a great event, the details guests remember are often the moments that feel personal, unexpected, and worth sharing. For Astro Coffee, a family-owned mobile coffee company based in Golden, Colorado, coffee creates an opportunity to deliver all three. Owned by Lisa Huron and Steven Schillaci, Astro Coffee operates a fleet of coffee carts, trailers,

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Rebecca Connors • July 21, 2026

Recipe: Tropical Mango Matcha Cold Foam

This Summer mango matcha latte is a striking, easy-to-make layered drink that pairs sweet mango purée with earthy matcha and a thick foam cap ready for printing, perfect for summer menus, brunch service, or any venue that wants a colorful, shareable signature drink. Ingredients The mango purée base: 100 g (3.5 oz) mango, fresh or

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Rebecca Connors • July 19, 2026

How Cafés Can Attract More Tourists This Summer

Summer brings an influx of visitors looking for places to relax, recharge, and experience a destination like a local. For many tourists, a café visit becomes one of the small moments that shape how they remember an entire trip. That’s not just a marketing claim. It’s the conclusion of a peer-reviewed study out of Modul

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