Tag Archives: square mile

Vacancy – Part time position at Square Mile

By James Hoffmann | Published: December 16, 2008

We have a part time temporary position coming up at Square Mile.
15-20 hours per week, reasonably flexible hours – to start in the new year.
The role will involve assisting with all aspects of the business – from cuppings, to production, delivery to helping support training classes.
Applicants should be warned that the work involves a good [...]

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Is jimseven.com dead?

By James Hoffmann | Published: October 14, 2008

I love a dramatic title…. However, the question remains valid! I have barely posted in the last three months, and I can’t just place the blame on Square Mile commitments. In truth lots of little things have contributed – no more internet at home, a broken macbook that I keep forgetting to [...]

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English Coffee Culture

By James Hoffmann | Published: June 13, 2008

Having done so on several occaisons, I feel it is quite acceptable to talk about Italian coffee culture. An intertwining of taste preference, lifestyle and culture with the drink. I feel pretty comfortable defining elements of Scandanavian coffee culture, or French coffee culture. I could keep listing different countries – the USA [...]

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Post 500: Espresso…..

By James Hoffmann | Published: April 18, 2008

It only just dawned on me that this next post would be a milestone post (thank you wordpress dashboard) so I thought I should post in an opinionated way about coffee as a couple of things have been eating away at my brain. It has been a real pleasure writing this blog over the [...]

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Getting my hands dirty

By James Hoffmann | Published: February 12, 2008

Things have been a bit quiet on this here blog. A few reasons for that really… Most of my time is spent in a space that doesn’t have a phone line yet and it has been lots of very long days. I am pretty tired. However, I am also pretty happy.
In other [...]

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Square Mile and Synesso in the UK

By James Hoffmann | Published: January 6, 2008

People have been asking so I thought I would clarify this.
We are indeed a distributor for Synesso espresso machines in the UK. I’ve been a fan of them for some time, both as a piece of machinery as well as a company. We’ve known for a while we wanted to use them within Square [...]

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