Frappuccino Turns into 'Selfieccino'

A customer holds their 'Selfieccino' coffee at the Tea Terrace in London, Britain, December 19, 2017. REUTERS/Simon Dawson
A customer holds their 'Selfieccino' coffee at the Tea Terrace in London, Britain, December 19, 2017. REUTERS/Simon Dawson
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Frappuccino Turns into 'Selfieccino'

A customer holds their 'Selfieccino' coffee at the Tea Terrace in London, Britain, December 19, 2017. REUTERS/Simon Dawson
A customer holds their 'Selfieccino' coffee at the Tea Terrace in London, Britain, December 19, 2017. REUTERS/Simon Dawson

Many images of coffee cups featuring customers’ photos have been recently shared on Instagram. Some thought it to be a visual trick, however, the service is actually available in a cafe in London and another in Singapore.

Singapore's “Selfie Coffee” Cafe offers its guests the chance to drink a "Frappuccino" with a special foam that features their selfies.

The shop is located in the Haji Lane area, and it is the first-of-its-kind to offer such a service since its opening in 2015.

Customers can choose to either snap a selfie on the spot using the cafe’s specially-designed mobile phone, or send one they already have to the counter staff. The staff then prepares the beverage, while the image is uploaded to a designated machine, which proceeds to print the image on a layer of whipped cream in few minutes only.

The shop’s manager explains that the printing technology is similar to the mechanism used to print pictures onto personalized cakes. Colored vegetable oils are used to replicate the colors in the selfies with surprising accuracy and crispness.

However, printing out images on a liquid rather than a solid layer proved to be a bigger challenge, as a firm layer of whipped cream became the edible canvas on which the image rests.

In London and at the Tea Terrace Cafe in the House of Fraser Shopping Mall on Oxford Street, the Frappuccino can also be served in Selfieccino style. Since the coffee shop launched the service, customers come and wait their turn to have a “personal” cup of coffee.

The selfie image can be printed on Frappuccino or hot chocolate. This service is available for an extra five pounds (about $7).

The process takes four minutes. The picture is taken with the smartphone and then uploaded to a special machine; and before the delivery of the coffee, its image will be shared on all social media outlets such as Instagram and Snapchat.

The Tea Terrace owner says that we live in the age of social networking, the drink should not just be served, but it also should be good enough to share on Instagram.

This means that barista's task of decorating coffee cups with a feather or a heart has become an old fashion. Today, the customer is demanding and seeks unusual ideas, and peoples’ rush to try this service is great evidence.

Starbucks cafes last summer launched a new Frappuccino in the form of a rhinoceros, but the Selfieccino has proven to be the best when it comes to creativity. It is important for Starbucks stores to stand up to this kind of challenge and compete to offer the best.



Pizza Delivery Monitor Alerts to Secret Israel Attack

The Pentagon is seen from the US Army Golden Knights parachute team plane ahead of their performance during the Twilight Tattoo ceremony as part of the Army’s 250th Birthday Festival in Washington, D.C., after taking off from Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, US, June 11, 2025. (Reuters)
The Pentagon is seen from the US Army Golden Knights parachute team plane ahead of their performance during the Twilight Tattoo ceremony as part of the Army’s 250th Birthday Festival in Washington, D.C., after taking off from Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, US, June 11, 2025. (Reuters)
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Pizza Delivery Monitor Alerts to Secret Israel Attack

The Pentagon is seen from the US Army Golden Knights parachute team plane ahead of their performance during the Twilight Tattoo ceremony as part of the Army’s 250th Birthday Festival in Washington, D.C., after taking off from Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, US, June 11, 2025. (Reuters)
The Pentagon is seen from the US Army Golden Knights parachute team plane ahead of their performance during the Twilight Tattoo ceremony as part of the Army’s 250th Birthday Festival in Washington, D.C., after taking off from Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, US, June 11, 2025. (Reuters)

The timing of Israel's plan to attack Iran was top secret. But Washington pizza delivery trackers guessed something was up before the first bombs fell.

About an hour before Iranian state TV first reported loud explosions in Tehran, pizza orders around the Pentagon went through the roof, according to a viral X account claiming to offer "hot intel" on "late-night activity spikes" at the US military headquarters.

"As of 6:59 pm ET nearly all pizza establishments nearby the Pentagon have experienced a HUGE surge in activity," the account "Pentagon Pizza Report" posted on Thursday.

While far from scientific, the Pentagon pizza theory "is not something the internet just made up," The Takeout, an online site covering restaurants and food trends, noted earlier this year.

Pentagon-adjacent pizza joints also got much busier than usual during Israel's 2024 missile strike on Iran, it said, as there are "a multitude of fast-food restaurants in the Pentagon complex, but no pizza places."

Pizza deliveries to the Pentagon reportedly doubled right before the US invasion of Panama in December 1989 and surged again before Operation Desert Storm in 1991.

President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal he was fully aware in advance of the bombing campaign, which Israel says is needed to end Iran's nuclear program. "We know what's going on."

For the rest of Americans, pepperoni pie activity was not the only way to tell something was about to happen.

Washington had already announced it was moving some diplomats and their families out of the Middle East on Wednesday.

And close to an hour before Israel unleashed its firepower on Iran, the US ambassador in Jerusalem, Mike Huckabee, sent out a rather revealing X post: "At our embassy in Jerusalem and closely monitoring the situation. We will remain here all night. 'Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!'"