Paper towels or electric hand dryer???
Because we are on a little sandbar 420 miles south of Miami everything has to be shipped in and accordingly costs are much higher than mainland. Recently I saw an invoice for paper towels for automatic dispense
I've been to cities that have a great coffee culture, and all of the baristi and owners and even customers and vendors will support a community event. Be it a jam, a tasting, a cupping, or just a get together, the whole coffee community will pull tog
Read more…I am going with some friends and my wife to Costa Rica in February and wanted to know if anyone had any good connections to farmers/farms there. Anybody?
Read more…The newest coffee shop in Central Florida. We are located directly acrossed the street from the Daytona Beach Speedway!! In the business and pleasure district of Daytona Beach. We offer specialty espresso drinks and gourmet sandwichs, salads, and
Read more…Think about it; your shop might be replaced by a stovetop steamer and a hand-grinder paired to a Mypressi Twist. It pulled a couple of unbelievable shots, and a string of just plain good dependable spro. Real espresso, too. Tiger striping and fleckin
Read more…Wondering how often folks power off their espresso machine. Unfortunately, I don't have a "user manual" for my Xeos Conti machine, so I don't have any idea what they recommend.
Suggestions?
Read more…Hi baristas all over the world,
I am new, just accepted into barista exchange.
I would like to seek your ideas in creative coffee tasting, like pairing coffee with certain food, demonstration of certain unique coffee tasting culture or coffee ritual, o
I’m an experienced barista that recently ventured into the roasting side of the industry, can anyone suggest any other educational / networking websites for someone that is looking for the newest, best, and most innovative information the coffee indu
Read more…So... being new to the area and all, I'm a little out of touch with what I'm assuming is a "already in existence" weekly/monthly coffee culture. There's certainly a strong showing of quality baristas around here... where the throwdowns at? Coffee cra
Read more…So I have a totally hypothetical situation that I need some "consumer" views on. Two companies, different parts of the country. Both have an online presence and are selling essentially the same thing. Both have no current plans to branch out of their
Read more…A few months back I strolled into a local specialty tea shop here in Winston Salem. Upon my entering I noticed a vacuum coffee brewer and inquired the man behind the counter about it. I had heard of these before... evidently they make for a wonderful
Read more…i am just new and zero for coffee and you may laugh on my queries found to be silly but please reply seriously. i opened a discussion titled 'barista with/without a machine' few days back,and thanks to all those who replied and who couldn't. all most
Read more…Read everything about both, we've always used Vita-Mix... but all of a sudden I have this uncontrollable desire to blend my cell phone.
Would like to hear comparisons from Blendtec users.
My coffee house has been open for about 3 1/2 years and I feel the need for a boost! Other than the full range of beverages, I serve a large variety of homemade pastries and panini sandwiches, as well as just adding some new breakfast items such as b
Read more…A friend of mine is looking to purchase a 5 kilo roaster and is looking at a Toper. I am not familiar with the brand of model and wanted to see if any has used one and could give me some feedback. any information would be great.
Read more…I was just thinking about what kinds of businesses would be best to seek out as potential marketing partners or strategic partners.
As an example, partnering with a bakery, developing a contract for baked goods and sharing marketing costs to mutual
Read more…Here we are, two weeks from opening!! Yes, we are opening up in the middle of race week, wow...Pray for us! Check out this link to our story in the Daytona Beach News- Journal!
http://www.news-journalonline.com/business.htm
Read more…I'm taking a short break from reading Bruce Miletto's "Effective and Essential Marketing for the Specialty Coffee Retailer" (great book by the way) and was thinking about the option of roasting in store.. Now, I've asked the broad question about roa
Read more…I was thinking about grinding coffee this morning.. I understand that for drip coffee, the ground coffee should have a consistency similar to that of sand. But how much does this vary with different coffees with different densities and other charact
Read more…We have the chance to work with a fair amount of single origin coffees-around 14 in stock at any time, many of them work great as espresso-some do not. We also specialize in light roasts, so this of course means some of the shots we get from say a Ce
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