Are there any shops in the Seattle Area using Astra espresso machines? In particular the Gourmet. I've got a customer up there wanting to put one in his house & he would love to see one in action. Let me know & I'll send him you're way to buy some dr
Read more…Has a customer asked you a question or say something that was completely out of line? Let us know here. The most common questions and phrases will become an article for my blog.
~Jennifer
Ran across this idea today, and am contemplating doing something with this. I started using Foursquare while on my cafe tour in Seattle, and have been playing with it a little bit since. Never occurred to me to look into what sort of commercial pos
Read more…I've been a small, yet growing, roasting company for almost 3 years now, and I'm considering taking the next step so I can get out into the public and display some of this passion that dwells within me. You all know that passion, too!
I am writing the business plan for a coffee shop, but I don't know what to do about the financial statements. Where can I go to get help on writing them? More specifically I have questions like - for cost of goods sold do I need to figure out the c
Read more…First let me say I'm a bonafide card carrying Coffee Snob. Heck, I wrote the CSA 12 Steps years ago! You bet I've been chasing fresh roasted, fresh ground, fresh brewed coffee since I first started drinking coffee in 1984 and I'm a purist in my perso
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My wife and i opened a coffeehouse/roaster in a little college town in NY. Our only competition was a coffee house that was well established, but was very low quality. 7 second extractions, permanently cook-on milk on the stream wands, etc.Wh
Is anyone out in the coffee world doing anything in their shops for st. patrick's day? Aside the fact that we can't serve alcohol in our shop, we are making green whipped cream and green latte art shamrocks. I was wondering if there are any non-alc
Read more…Please have a peek at my profile for a bit of background info on my espresso history/interests/skills.
I am entrepreneurial and enjoy new business ventures. I would love to open an espresso bar in NYC (perhaps midtown, which is pretty much a wasteland
Greetings Fellow BXers;
As some of you may be aware, "The" Todd Mackey and I have recently started a group dedicated to the advancement of specialty coffee in our mini-metropolis out here in Scenic New England. Our organization is open to anyone and e
Hello Portland I wanted to invite you all to our Sneak Peak Party @ BARISTA. This will be a great opportunity to meet the new crew and see our new space!
We've been wanting to do coffee classes in our shop on Saturday afternoons. Either cheap or free. Depends on what it actually costs us. These classes would be aimed at our customers and would be rather basic. Things like coffee vocabulary, Brewin
Read more…Any advice on smoothies? I like Sweet bird peach and Mango. Dr Smoothie Strawberry is good too. Is there anything else on the market?
Read more…Is anyone out there doing a frozen cappuccino in the frozen drink machine with a cold brew coffee method? Im looking to replace my current espresso syrup based frozen cappuccino by making my own mix. Trying to figure out about what kind of ratio of c
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I'm a new barista going through my first week training. I have some coffee knowledge, and some espresso experience from long ago, but I'm far from an expert.
I'm having problems organizing my time during rush times.
We have a double handle mac
Our shop is looking into a new bagging method because our current system is costing us a ton of money. We are using Pack Plus and we get these copper metallic air-lock vented bags and then we have labels that we print out to stick on the bags.
What
Just wondering how many shops out there serve frozen drinks and what kind of mix do you use. What have you had elsewhere that you like. What to you hate more than the power of a ten thousand suns. Well at least over 9000!!!!!!!
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