Sandy Hon

Female

Overland Park, Kansas

United States

Profile Information:

What is your position in the coffee industry?
barista, manager, barista trainer, home barista, coffee enthusiast, industry professional
Where are you located? ( City and Country )
Overland Park, Kansas
How many years have you been in the industry?
15
If you are a barista or shop, are you interested in a barista exchange with another coffee shop/barista?
maybe
Tell us more about your coffee shop or barista skills.
i heart Baristas.
What cities or countries are you interested in traveling to?
and and all of them.
About Me:
Founding member the Barista Guild of America.
I supervise the coffee bar operations at Johnson County Community College.
I consider any challenge as an opportunity to learn.
I like to learn.
About My Company:
We're not real fancy, but we are real good.
What is your favorite thing about the coffee industry?
Tasting new coffees, troubleshooting brews and extractions, meeting other coffee nerds.
Website:
http://www.baristaexchange.com

Comment Wall:

  • Matt Milletto

    Hi Sandy, welcome aboard!

    Dec 11, 2007

  • scott conary

    Hey Honster.....what's shaking?
    scott

    Dec 12, 2007

  • scott conary

    Sushi! Sad to say but I may not be in the public eye until Coffeefest DC....you going? I have no doubt we could dig up some good raw stuff.

    Dec 12, 2007

  • Aaron Duckworth

    Ah, crap. There goes the neighborhood. I'm moving to the next town over...

    Dec 12, 2007

  • Rob Tuttle

    You are everywhere!

    Dec 14, 2007

  • Bj Davis

    Sandy....
    I got to visit with Kim! I wish we all lived closer.

    Dec 29, 2007

  • )on Lewis

    "are you planning to compete OOR at the MWBC?"

    Only on Barista Exchange would that question make any sense whatsoever. As much as I'd love to see the action in St. Louis, it's a little too close time-wise to the MRBC in Denver. The first few months of '08 will be pretty action-packed.

    Dec 30, 2007

  • Kim Lovelady

    such a pretty picture!

    Dec 31, 2007

  • mike perry

    Nice Picture, can't believe you have been doing this almost as long as me. Say hi to those in KS

    Jan 5, 2008

  • mike perry

    Hey, I'll give you props on that all day!

    Jan 6, 2008

  • Robbie Britt

    Hey Sandy,

    Thanks for your help and input on Monday. It was great to meet you. See you in St. Louis!!!

    Jan 8, 2008

  • Robbie Britt

    Thanks for the invite!!!

    Jan 9, 2008

  • Steve Lanphier

    Hi Sandy,

    Like you, I am passionate and committed to excellent coffee. How many times have you been in a new shop and wound up behind the counter giving an impromptu lesson in proper extraction and frothing?

    Jan 9, 2008

  • Jason Dominy

    Greetings!

    Jan 9, 2008

  • Dismas

    14 years wow you must be old.

    Jan 11, 2008

  • Dismas

    Does Rogaine work for women too. Any way you can't see the thinning with your hair combed that way.

    Jan 11, 2008

  • Dismas

    Cranky? I had a big smile and love in my heart when I wrote that. Sounds like someone else is a little touchy today.

    Jan 11, 2008

  • Aaron Duckworth

    Whatev! She has a red mac! I'd totally come out ahead. Not sure how she'd come out, but that's her problem.

    Jan 12, 2008

  • Dismas

    Sandy! No goofing off today.

    Jan 16, 2008

  • Kim Lovelady

    Hoooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnn!

    Jan 17, 2008

  • Kim Lovelady

    Newbom wants to know how the sweatshirt is....where is it again?

    Jan 28, 2008

  • Kim Lovelady

    Do you know who you gave it too....so far reports say it never made it.
    AWOL HOODIE!!

    Jan 30, 2008

  • Kim Lovelady

    The hoodie will be finding a new travel companion at the NERBC.

    Jan 31, 2008

  • Liana

    hey sandy.
    thanks so much for invite.
    i really enjoyed class yesterday..
    probably my favorite of the semester.
    you're great.

    Feb 1, 2008

  • Phil Proteau

    Hi Sandy, Troy told me I will be meeting you at the MANE Jam. It will be a barrel of monkeys and ferrets.

    Feb 5, 2008

  • Sandy Hon

    Yes, i'm going to be there! Booking my flight....right now as a matter of fact!

    I'll take one monkey and two ferrets, please!


    Sandy

    Feb 6, 2008

  • Greg Scace

    Oh Boy!! Hi there Howzit goin? Are you coming to DC Coffeefest? Did you get slammed by weather yeaterday? Questions, questions, questions...

    Feb 6, 2008

  • Miguel Meza

    I won't be making it down this weekend, but Aaron will be down with Adam who is competing

    Feb 6, 2008

  • Ken Nye

    Hellooooo...

    Feb 7, 2008

  • Robbie Britt

    It was good to see you in St. Louis this weekend. It was an honor to have you as my tech. judge. Thanks for the advice and looking forward to the next one!!!

    Feb 10, 2008

  • Alex Brooks

    Thanks for the support!

    Feb 10, 2008

  • Jon

    I'm keeping busy as always. I'm planning to make it to Denver for the first ever MRBC. see you there maybe?

    Feb 11, 2008

  • Robbie Britt

    Thanks for the compliment! I too, hope that I will be the one kicking butt over the next couple of years. I definitely hope to be at Minneapolis, I guess it depends on what the new bosses want me to do. If I can't caravan, hopefully we can all hang out some in May!!!

    Feb 12, 2008

  • Anthony Epp

    Actually I think it's sometime in High School. I found this one, and many others, while going through my pix during my move recently.

    Feb 12, 2008

  • Miguel Meza

    see you in Minneapolis ;)

    Feb 13, 2008

  • Kim Lovelady

    nice pinky :)

    Feb 13, 2008

  • Robin "Big Daddy" Seitz

    That's a delicious looking drink you are having there. ;)

    Feb 13, 2008

  • Holly

    Sandy Hon....how was the extra day in Saint Louis? i bet it was as awesome as the 4 previous days :)

    Feb 16, 2008

  • Holly

    I like to think that Mr. Mean Guy and I had an understanding by the time I left. :)

    Feb 17, 2008

  • Chris Berola

    I think it paints me as a sympathetic character trying not to be chewed up and swallowed by the white woman. It shows people that not all chubby white males are empowered enough to be holding down the other races and females.

    That and I do have my mohawk in that one, I miss it.

    Feb 19, 2008

  • Chris Berola

    Its from a pub crawl last fall in waldo. A nice hole in the wall bar after too many cocktails, as per the Budweiser sign over my shoulder.

    I don't have a problem with white women, they have problems with me. Something about not showering enough, I don't know I wasn't really listening.

    Feb 22, 2008

  • Dismas

    notice the pinkie sticking in the air. I predict that our eyes will lock in the near future.

    Feb 22, 2008

  • Belle

    thanks sandy. I've never really commented back to any of your comments, but I've sure meant to. (I'm slowly getting into the social aspect of the internet). But I really look forward to talking with you person to person, probably minnesota? or are you going to the mid atlantic jam....I'm not sure it I am going yet. either way, I'll see you soon.

    Feb 22, 2008

  • Alex

    yes! just saw that you are going too, super exciting!

    i'm flying in on tuesday or wednesday in my VW. i just got a new flight suit. you?

    Feb 22, 2008

  • Sandy Hon

    Flying in on a Jet Plane Wednesday evening and returning Friday night.
    I'm staying at the host hotel. See you there?

    Feb 22, 2008