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How To Be A Great Barista – Barista Training

There are four important questions that help a barista come to understand their role in the world of the coffee house. Who is your guest? Why do they come to your shop? What makes a good cup of coffee? Why is any of this important? Understanding these answers are central to being an impactful barista, not just a coffee shop employee.

First, who is your guest?

The guest is a fellow human in a busy world.

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Pro Tips: Financing A Coffee Business Through Crowdfunding

Many of you are probably familiar with crowdfunding.  You’ve likely seen some of the projects online that have gone viral, or maybe you’ve even backed a project yourself. If you haven’t yet heard about crowdfunding, that’s likely to change very soon.

Crowdfunding as an alternative to traditional forms of financing is exploding in growth. The crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.com alone has raised over 1 billion dollars and funded more than 66,000 successful projects to date.

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How To Plan A Better Tea Program For Your Coffee Shop Business

The idea of coffee as a “specialty” beverage is a driving force of many coffee shops today: serving beverages that are crafted with knowledge and care from quality ingredients, served to a customers who appreciate what they’re getting.

The point, too, of specialty beverages is often to highlight places of origin: the lands and people who grow and tend the plants that find their way into our cups. We have begun to tell the story of coffee well and clearly,

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Water…Coffee’s Largest Variable | Coffee School

By now, for coffee professionals and café owners, there is a better than likely chance they’ve heard the phrase “Coffee is 98% water.” Does this really mean anything? If so, what action does it illicit from people?

As the Specialty Coffee representative for a commercial water treatment manufacturer, I work with café owners, coffee roasters, coffee equipment manufacturers, equipment distributors, service techs and baristas every day. Without question, the single largest problem I find across all of these groups is the negative side effects that water has on their equipment and coffee.

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Coffee Business Tips: Creating a Culture of Consistency

It’s seven in the morning.  You are tired, as you have every right to be at this hour.  Maybe you’re a little grumpy, but you’re at your favorite coffee shop so you are happy anyway.  You’re about five people back in line and you want this coffee.  In fact, you need it.  Slowly you make your way closer and closer to the register and your mouth is watering as you imagine how delicious that first sip is going to be.  

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