Diedrich Coffee Announces Its First Drive-Thru Location

Located in Beautiful Dana Point, Diedrich's Newest Coffeehouse Features Relaxing Ocean-Breeze Setting or Easy Drive-Thru Convenience

IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Diedrich Coffee Inc. (NASDAQ:DDRX), a leading roaster, retailer and wholesaler of gourmet coffee in Southern California, announced the official opening of their newest coffeehouse. Located in the beach community of Dana Point, the new coffeehouse is the first of Diedrich's 27 Southern California locations to feature a drive-thru window. Ideally situated along the city's vibrant Coast Highway and just a stone's throw from Dana Point Harbor, the new store offers the best of relaxing beach city atmosphere and the convenience of a drive-up window. This most recent store opening marks Diedrich's continuing plan for brand invigoration and strategic growth.

"Diedrich coffeehouses are really all about our customers," explains Rocky Laverty, CEO of Diedrich Coffee. "We are honored to be joining and serving the beautiful and historic community of Dana Point. Our coffeehouses are best known for their local flavor and welcoming community atmosphere, and we think this will be a perfect addition to Dana Point's strong community environment. We look forward to being good neighbors to both residents and business owners alike."

Diedrich Coffee currently has 27 coffeehouse locations throughout the region, including Orange, Los Angeles and San Diego counties. Additional Diedrich Coffee locations are presently under construction or planned in Santa Ana and other communities around Orange County.

The newest Diedrich Coffee location, which opened late September, is located at 34122 S. Pacific Coast Highway, near Doheny Park Road. Like all Diedrich locations, the new Dana Point store will feature free Wi-Fi Internet access for its guests as well as the Diedrich Digital Network, offering real-time data feeds to help customers decide what freeways to avoid, to view the market's current status, or to discover where the day's best surf can be found.

About Diedrich Coffee

With headquarters in Irvine, California, Diedrich Coffee specializes in sourcing, roasting and selling the world's highest quality coffees. The Company's three brands are Gloria Jean's Coffees, Diedrich Coffee, and Coffee People. The company's 206 domestic retail outlets, the majority of which are franchised, are located in 33 states. Diedrich Coffee also sells its coffees through more than 460 wholesale accounts including office coffee service distributors, restaurants and specialty retailers, via mail order and the Internet. For more information about Diedrich Coffee, call 800-354-5282, or visit the company's Web sites at www.diedrich.com, www.gloriajeans.com, or www.coffeepeople.com.

Forward Looking Statements

Statements in this news release that relate to future plans, financial results or projections, events or performance are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and fall under the safe harbor. Actual results and financial position could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the successful management of Diedrich Coffee's growth strategy, risks that arise in the context of operating a business with significant franchise operations, the impact of competition, the availability of working capital and other risks and uncertainties described in detail under "Risk Factors and Trends Affecting Diedrich Coffee and its Business" in the Company's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 29, 2005.

For more information, please contact:
Jason Kirshner / Shana Starr
RMS Public Relations - www.rms-biz.com (for Diedrich Coffee)
Tel: 949-429-1172 / 949-481-3984
E-mail: Jason-PR@RMS-Biz.com / Shana-PR@RMS-Biz.com


Source: Diedrich Coffee Inc.

CONTACT: Jason Kirshner, +1-949-429-1172, Jason-PR@RMS-Biz.com, or Shana
Starr, +1-949-481-3984, Shana-PR@RMS-Biz.com, both of RMS Public Relations for
Diedrich Coffee Inc.

Study on Caffeine Intake and Hypertension

American Beverage Association Statement on Study on Caffeine Intake and Hypertension

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Beverage Association issued the following statement in response to "Habitual Caffeine Intake and the Risk of Hypertension in Women," a study published in the November issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association:

"The authors themselves acknowledge the limitations of their study and state that it is too soon to draw any conclusions regarding soft drinks.

Other factors are known to be associated with hypertension, such as lifestyle, stress, personality, behavior and other health conditions, and further study could help determine the relative importance of these factors as compared to consumption of soft drinks.

Importantly, no association was found in this study between hypertension and consumption of caffeine, one of the most widely studied ingredients in the food supply today. The study, involving more than 150,000 women, excludes caffeine as a risk factor for hypertension, not only in coffee and tea but most likely in soft drinks, which contain substantially less caffeine than these other beverages."

The American Beverage Association is the trade association representing the broad spectrum of companies that manufacture and distribute non-alcoholic beverages in the United States.

Source: American Beverage Association

CONTACT: Kathleen Dezio, +1-202-463-6772, or Tracey Halliday,
+1-202-463-6705, both of the American Beverage Association

Web site: http://www.ameribev.org/

'A Cup of Kindness' Brews Up Hope

On November 21st a Cup of illy coffee Educates an Ethiopian Child

NEW YORK, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- On Monday November 21st, 2005, A Cup of Kindness turns your morning coffee (or afternoon pick me up) into hope and education for an Ethiopian child. Pick up a latte, espresso or any cup of illy coffee at participating cafes in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Toronto and $1.00 will be donated to Share Our Strength to support Save the Children's Community Schools in Ethiopia.

From November 21 - 28th please the coffee lover on your holiday gift list at www.illyusa.com and 5% of all purchases for the week will be donated to this important program. Sip, shop and do good all at the same time without getting caught in mall madness.

About Ethiopia, Save the Children, Share Our Strength and illy

Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee and grows the world's highest quality washed Arabica coffee. Illy purchases the best quality Ethiopian beans at a premium price and has devised a processing procedure that increases crop quality significantly with little investment. The system reduces water usage in this drought prone land. This increased quality translates into increased income for the individual coffee growers. As well as co-funding the project with the International Coffee Organization and the Common Fund for Commodities, illy sends its qualified technicians to work on site and assist growers during the harvesting and processing stages as a further quality assurance. By increasing the value of the Ethiopian coffee farmer's crop, illy insures that farmers realize a profit for their efforts. This reflects illy's global policy of ethical and sustainable development throughout coffee growing countries.

125 million children in Africa have no access to basic education. To help further improve the current situation in Ethiopia, illy joined forces with Share Our Strength and Save the Children to support community schools in Ethiopia. The community school is Save the Children's flagship approach to quality basic education in high poverty areas. In addition to educating boys and girls, the schools act as a community resource, providing health and nutrition education, basic health services such as first aid, immunization and de-worming, and adult literacy classes.

For further information on A Cup of Kindness and a list of participating cafes, please log on to www.illyusa.com.

Source: illy caffe

CONTACT: Jennifer Mitchell, +1-212-675-5525, jmitchell@talbertcom.com,
for illy caffe

Web site: http://www.illyusa.com/

Coffee might help women's blood pressure

By LINDSEY TANNER
AP MEDICAL WRITER

CHICAGO -- Here's good news for women who love coffee: Drinking it doesn't seem to cause long-term high blood pressure, a study suggests.

But for some reason, women in the same study who drank colas did seem to have a greater risk of high blood pressure. Researchers were surprised at that and cautioned that the study wasn't conclusive.

Caffeine is a well-known ingredient in both beverages, and has been shown to cause short-term increases in blood pressure. But coffee drinkers in the study were no more likely than abstainers to develop high blood pressure during 12 years of follow-up.

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Arabica coffee output may drop 25%

Bangalore: The white stem borer menace could have eaten up close to 25 per cent of the country's arabica coffee crop this year, according to the United Planters Association of India (Upasi).

A severe drought in the last two seasons has resulted in rapid borer infestation that may see a 25 per cent drop in arabica output over the initial Coffee Board crop estimates of 1.05 lakh tonnes, said C.P. Kariappa, Chairman (Coffee Committee), Upasi.

"The damage caused by the borer infestation is much more than what we have imagined," Kariappa told a press conference on Monday.

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