Both festive drinks are available right now in Blank Street Coffee's 23 London shops. Launched in 2020 in Brooklyn, the brand hopped over the pond to London in the summer of 2022.

Of course, Blank Street isn’t the first VC-backed coffee shop. Luckin, Blue Bottle and CafeX came before it. But for Menda and Freiha the key to doing this was to create a business model that ...

It’s hard to argue coffee’s prominence as a habitual commodity. Restaurants chase the high-profit business through frequency and routine. But Vinay Menda saw friction in the blueprint. Some of the ...

Blank Street Chief of Staff Evan S. Mateen ’20 wrote in an email that he believes the store’s space — adjacent to Harvard Yard and the Smith Campus Center — is the “perfect location” for students to ...

Confusion ensued. Customers at Ms. Jaffe’s shop tried to cash in rewards in the Blank Street app, she said, while others emailed her catering requests for Blank Street’s mint green coffee trucks.