Seattle's Best Coffee and Inventure Foods, Inc. teaming up to launch Seattle's Best Coffee Frozen Coffee Blends, the coffee category's first blend-at-home frozen coffee beverage. With the Spring 2013 launch of Seattle's Best Coffee Frozen Coffee Blends, coffee enthusiasts can enjoy their favorite Seattle's Best Coffee frozen drinks from the comfort of their own kitchen. Four unique flavors will hit freezer aisles at grocery stores and mass retailers nationwide this spring. This new product launch represents a move to bring frozen coffee into the home as a response to the growing popularity of at-home blending and the rise of blended coffee drinks. The at-home blended coffee drink puts equal emphasis on taste and convenience: consumers simply empty the contents of the frozen bag into a blender, add eight ounces of fat-free milk and press blend to make two, eight-ounce beverages in less than a minute. In addition, the Seattle's Best Coffee(R) Frozen Coffee Blends feature zero trans fats, just nine grams of sugar, and only 130 calories per serving when prepared as directed, providing a smart, customizable and convenient beverage to make at home. With a suggested retail price ranging from $2.99-$3.49, each Seattle's Best Coffee(R) Frozen Coffee Blends will be sold in an eight-ounce, stand-up vertical packaging found in the freezer section of grocery stores and mass retailers.

Seattle's Best Coffee LLC unveiled the future of its retail business, a revolutionary new small footprint drive-thru and walk-up only store built for speed. Standing at less than 600 square feet, which is 65% smaller than its previous store, the mini store represents a completely transformed retail strategy for the brand. With this new concept, Seattle's Best Coffee is appealing to a large and growing audience of customers who are increasingly getting their coffee on-the-go. According to NPD Group, last year 12.4 billion visits were made through drive-thrus, a 2% increase over the prior year. The first store debuts in Seattle's SODO neighborhood and will roll out in more markets beginning in 2013. Starbucks puts premium coffee in the fast lane with the first drive-thru-only store from Seattle's Best Coffee. Standing at less than 600 square feet, the mini store opens in Seattle's SODO neighborhood. The new menu line-up was finalized after launching a learning lab in the Chicago area earlier this year. Based on customer feedback, new signature food items and value-forward combo meals have been added. With equal focus on coffee drinks and all-day-long food items, the menu is unlike anything available in the current marketplace. The new menu offers dessert-inspired coffee drinks such as Birthday Cake Lattes, Caramel Candy Lattes and S'mores Mochas that are served up hot, iced or frozen. Brewed coffee gets upgraded to a fully customized experience, offering either original or dark blend and free flavored creamers. The menu also features traditional coffeehouse standards like lattes and mochas. Delivering on the one-stop-shopping promise, customers will see food options across any day-part, offered all day long. These include hearty egg breakfast sandwiches on muffins or biscuits with sausage, ham or cheese; pretzel melts stuffed with ham & cheese, turkey & provolone or spinach & feta and an array of sweet and savory handheld "Anytime Pies," including Spicy Mac 'N' Cheese, Cheesy Egg & Potato and Caramel Apple. With the launch of the new store, Seattle's Best Coffee begins rolling out a new approach to value with four combo meals. Each easy-to-order combo includes a car-friendly food item and coffee, ideal for customers seeking quality, but who are pressed for time. Combos include: any Breakfast Sandwich and any size coffee for $3.49, any Pretzel Melt and any size soda for $4.29, any Pie and any size coffee for $2.99, oatmeal and any size coffee for $2.79. The small footprint design and LEAN station layouts allows the baristas to assemble orders more efficiently, enabling speed of service that matches industry drive-thru expectations. The small design unlocks new options for retail growth in small, underutilized spaces. In Seattle's SODO neighborhood, the drive-thru is in a highly visible, easily accessible location on a 5,400-square foot parcel of land at the edge of a retail center that previously was viewed as not able to be developed. The pedestrian- and bike-friendly walk-up window is adjacent to the sidewalk. The building features a prominent red exterior and tall, eye-catching facade making it easily identifiable from the road. Once drivers approach the store, the window-wrapped design allows customers to see their order being made by Seattle's Best Coffee baristas. The menu layout also enables ease of ordering with large product images and line pricing -- every like beverage is exactly the same price whether ordered hot, iced or frozen. The new store is in Seattle's SODO neighborhood on 2990 4(th) Avenue, a main access point for commuters to downtown Seattle. The Seattle's Best Coffee SODO Gateway Drive-Thru is open Monday -- Friday from 5:00 a.m. until 9:30 p.m., Saturday from 6:00 a.m. -- 9:30 p.m. and Sunday from 6:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Seattle's Best Coffee LLC announced that its commuter-centric concept menu is set to arrive at one of the busiest boroughs in the world with the opening of a new Brooklyn franchise location. Franchisee Eddie Shamah will open the doors of the new Seattle's Best Coffee location near the new Barclays Center at 253 Livingston Street on June 21, 2012. The concept menu, which debuted as a test in Chicago in March, boasts delicious coffee beverages, and commuter-friendly sandwiches and snacks that will appear for the first time on the East Coast. With an easy-to-navigate menu board design and straightforward pricing, the new concept menu offers coffee drinkers: Customizable Brewed Coffee: A choice of Original or Dark, as well as flavored creamers so New Yorkers can have their coffee exactly the way they like it, at no extra cost; Signature Coffee Drinks: The menu spotlights the brand's latest signature beverages -- available hot, iced or blended -- like Caramel Candy and Birthday Cake lattes and Caramel Pretzel and S'mores mochas. Those looking for a cool treat can try icy blended seasonal offerings like Coconut Cream Pie and Peanut Butter Chocolate; Hearty Sandwiches: Delicious breakfast sandwiches are made in house and available on either a biscuit or a muffin, and warm pretzel bread stuffed with a choice of either turkey or ham round out lunch options; On-The-Go Snacks: The cafe will offer muffins, cookies and other on-the-go snack items like Sour Cream Coffee Cake, individual Caramel Apple Pies and a Cheese Pretzel Danish. The new Brooklyn location is among nearly 100 Seattle's Best Coffee retail locations in the United States and Canada.