Tag: Baristas & Coffee Shops

Some Like It Too Hot? Rethinking Coffee Serving Practices

When questioning professionals or consumers about influences on coffee quality, factors such as type, variety and origin, processing, sorting, gentle roasting, fresh grinding or the type of preparation are usually named. Very rarely, however, is the temperature is brought into play. According to popular opinion, the best way to think with coffee is “the hotter the better”. This belief needs to be tackled in two ways. [Sign in to continue]

5 Steps to Set Up a Barista Training Program

How to establish a barista training program? Here are 5 steps to do so:
Number 1: Form your C-team
That’s mean you first need a coffee experts team of people – Coffee Team. The team should consist of a group of members who are responsible to coffee quality assurance, coffee education and research & development. These people are the engine of your coffee business. They will be in touch with the latest trend of the coffee world and build up proper trainings for your barista.
Apart from that, the team serves a symbolic meaning to your barista team. They will have a group of people to look up to, which helps to create a better learning environment in the company.
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The Importance of a Training Program for Your Barista Trainees

Many cafe owners invest significantly into the actual products instead of the barista. But the naked truth is without a good barista, you can never win.

5 Questions About Coffee, Answered by Research

1. Does Coffee Actually Wake You Up? Although you may often feel like you haven’t woken up until you’ve had your first cup, coffee does not actually wake you up. What caffeine does is block the adenosine—a neurotransmitter that promotes sleep—receptors in your brain. Caffeine has a similar structure to adenosine and therefore it can connect to the same receptors.

Paying Coffee With Bitcoins: Craziness Or The Future?

Physical places to buy a coffee with your Bitcoins Bitcoin is a form of digital currency, created and held electronically. Bitcoins are produced by operating computers all around the world, using software that solves mathematical problems. The story goes that a software developer called Satoshi Nakamoto proposed Bitcoin, which was an electronic payment system based on mathematical proof, but it

London Coffee Shops Go Green and Get More Guests

An innovative new scheme that gets coffee shops new customers and promotes environmental awareness is launching in London in February 2018. When working with Coffee Shop and Cafes to get more customers one of the most successful strategies is using ‘joint ventures’ or cross promotions. By working with non-competitive businesses whose customers or staff are similar to yours you can soon

Why You Should Consider Renting a Coffee Machine

More than half of adults in America drinks coffee, with an average of 3.1 cups per day. Nowadays, Starbucks is on every street corner and many cafes offer coffee in takeaway cups for a small price. If you lack a coffee machine in your office, employees will defer from work to get their caffeine fix at one of their local coffee shops.

Every office needs to have a coffee machine to cater to every employee’s caffeine needs, and keep them from roaming out of the office. It is not only necessary to keep your coffee-drinking employees happy, it also is proven to increase productivity. Coffee has become indispensable in the workplace, but investing in a coffee machine can be quite expensive. [Sign in to continue]

How the Catering Industry Fosters New Talent

People management is vital to staff retention Happily, the choleric chef turning tantrums in the kitchen and never communicating with his minions at less than 100 decibels, is one of a disappearing race. Yet the widely held belief still exists that the key to becoming a “proper” chef is learning the hard way and taking lots of knocks. Participants of

3 Limits of Your Paper Loyalty Card

Loyalty programs are a must and a well-established practice in the everyday commerce of shops and nowadays most coffee shops and restaurants propose a simple strategy based on 10 stamps for 1 free product. Nothing more effective than that, isn’t it? But in a so crown world, are you sure this strategy is still valid? Let’s consider 3 troubling points

Coffee Shops: Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall

All you’ve got to do is change! With apologies to James Taylor, in his timeless favourite, ‘You’ve got a Friend’. Each season moves along with the complete certainty that nature brings. You know yourself that in the summer you will eat and drink differently than in the winter. Over the last few weeks, the big coffee chains have all launched