Starbucks takes over campus coffee establishments
graphic courtesy of Page Resource Solar Roast Coffee is gone from Colorado State University-Pueblo for the 2014-2015 school year, and Starbucks is back. After the major renovation of the library (LARC) in April 2011, food service management began looking for a local coffee vendor because of a strong pro-Pueblo mentality according to Michael Hartkop, co-owner of Solar Roast. Chartwells conducted a blind taste test between Solar Roast and Starbucks to determine which coffee would be offered at the university. “Solar Roast won the blind taste test with a 2-1 ratio,”...