Pod People: Nespresso’s Push to Become High-End Restaurants’ Go-To Coffee

When you go to a great restaurant (and spend hundreds upon hundreds of dollars for a meal), you want to be coddled. You want all sorts of exquisite foods, prepared to unimaginably high standards, served with the finest wines and spirits on the entire planet. It follows that if you want coffee after your meal, you want the best. At hundreds of Michelin-starred restaurants around the world, what you’ll actually get is coffee that comes from a metallic pod. In fact, Nespresso is increasingly common at high-end restaurants, and the group is pushing hard to make sure use of its machines becomes even more ubiquitous. And discerning chefs are more than happy with the arrangement… MORE