I wanted to tell you about a project I am involved in that will soon be making a big splash in Brooklyn. It's a unique concept and we hope to raise the bar and set the "Standard" for sustainable, green and local business practice within a retail coff
Read more…Just wondering if you can get by serving only coffee and pastries at coffee shops or do you need to put in a whole sandwich/wrap/panini menu to survive? It almost seems like people expect to be able to buy a sandwich at coffee shops just like being a
Read more…We are a new coffee shop, we haven't quite been open 4 months. When we opened we decided that we wanted a soft opening to get our feet on the ground so we didn't do any marketing. Now we are ready to kick up our traffic in our shop. I am wondering wh
Read more…I have heard about some shops using the pay what you want price. Has anyone heard any more about the success or failure of this? What I do know is that when people paid less than the price that was suggested, they felt like they were about to get sto
Read more…Hey guys check out this article about the new cafe we just helped set up. Northwest herald article
Read more…Mercy Corps is pleased to offer a lease opportunity for a unique café space in its new global headquarters building at SW Ankeny Street and First Avenue in Portland’s historic Old Town Chinatown neighborhood. Be a part of Mercy Corps’ new global hea
Read more…hello everyone, from the worlds least organized barista. I was planning on attending the 2009 coffee fest in chicago until i recently found out that the person that was supposed to be getting me my ticket has failed to do so. I visited the website an
Read more…So I have an ongoing barista education program at Burgie's here in Ames. This month's theme is model cafes. Ones that we can learn from, take lessons from, model after, etc. I found a great article about Intelligentsia where they give their mission s
Read more…Mercy Corps is pleased to offer a lease opportunity for a unique café space in its new global headquarters building at SW Ankeny Street and First Avenue in Portland’s historic Old Town Chinatown neighborhood. Be a part of Mercy Corps’ new global hea
Read more…I got an email from Joshua Lurie at Food GPS out of L.A. with links to two articles he wrote on the new Intelligentsia Venice location, and a bit on their hiring and training strategies.
Ideas anyone? Use frozen fruit and put in bags in the freezer portioned out? ideas?
Read more…Does anyone offer incentives to staff when certain sales goals are met? What are they and does it work?
Read more…Its been a long road setting up shop but MadCap Coffee will be open for business tomorrow, Saturday, January 17th. We'll be open 8am till 11pm, rockin some El Salvador COE and Finca Vista Hermosa on the Chemex bar and offering our house spro and a si
Read more…For a coffee House with retail , food and coffee, tea... would the code be "7223 Special Food Services"?
Read more…So at my coffee shop, Burgies Coffee and Tea Co. in Ames we have an ongoing employee education program. It includes catergorized, by month and theme, new information regarding the coffee business. This coming month's theme is model Cafes. Ones that h
Read more…My NNN just went up again this year...now $5.22/sf which seems outrageous. It's nearly 25% of what I pay for rent, and we don't have any "services" like window washing or anything. I know taxes and insurance make up the bulk of those costs, but still
Read more…I saw that Sarah Allen also blogged about this. Interesting purchase considering the company has told their employees they may reconsider their existing 401k plan, and have been announcing the closer of hundreds of stores. It's not my place to critiq
Read more…Hi All, I am opening a second cafe, and we are really trying to move toward customer education in the way of traditional sized cappuccino's (5-6oz) and lattes (traditionally 5-6oz, but up to 12oz.). We don't want to be militant about our size offerin
Read more…This was in the Seattle Times on Saturday. Looks like baristas are safe for now, but 1000 lay offs in HQ, field employees and district managers is pretty substantial. Starbucks spokeswoman Deb Trevino said the company is operating in "an extremely c
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