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paulito

Male

Las Vegas, NV

United States

Profile Information:

What is your position in the coffee industry?: barista, manager, barista trainer, coffee roaster, coffee enthusiast
Where are you located? ( City and Country ): las vegas
How many years have you been in the industry?: 11
If you are a barista or shop, are you interested in a barista exchange with another coffee shop/barista?: yes
Tell us more about your coffee shop or barista skills.: i have 8 years coffee shop management experience, 11 years behind an espresso machine and am bursting at the seems with passion for coffee and cafe lifestyle
What cities or countries are you interested in traveling to?: portland or, seattle wa, colorado or new mexico, any oragin country
About Me:: full blown 100% coffee/bicycle dork!!!
What is your favorite thing about the coffee industry?: the coffee, people, and opertunity to spread joy through the universe
Website:: http://www.sambalatte.com

Comment Wall:

Mitch McMullen

thanks, it's good to be here. thanks for the hook-up

Mar 16, 2009
Erin Griffin

Espresso Parts is the best. Good people who are passionate about what they do!!

Mar 20, 2009
Erin Griffin

P.S. Nice tattoo...

Mar 20, 2009
Tori St. Pierre

It's good to know there are other people in the world as crazy about coffee as me. I love you tat!

Mar 20, 2009
Sarah Leanne Barnett

sweet sweet tatt!

Mar 23, 2009
Tori St. Pierre

Kingston is in NY right near Woodstock, about an hour and a half from NYC. The culture is slow here. Some good some bad, but a nice place to visit. Lets buy an island where coffee and skulls are worshiped. The motto could be "Drink good coffee or die trying"

Mar 24, 2009
courtney marie

thank you :} nice rosettas.

Mar 24, 2009
Tori St. Pierre

There's quite a nasty film all over Kingston as well. I guess we are just doomed...to town quite cool enough for the likes of us!

Mar 24, 2009
Kristen

Hey, nice to meet you! you should totally move to austin and be a coffee geek with me. i see bike pictures on your page; there are tons of bike nerds here! i just got my first road bike last week!

my only advice about moving here, is to save up money! it took me over a month to find a shop to work at... and i must have handed out thirty resumes.

Mar 28, 2009
Sara Travis

Thanks! My BF was pissed when I chose the pink cuz he wanted to ride it and absolutely despises pink. I told him I'd paint my old SS Schwinn black and yellow instead of the pink and yellow it is currently. Too bad its one of those old dip frames from the 70's so you can't hide the fact that its a girls bike!

Mar 29, 2009
Sara Travis

Haha I totally agree! Chicago has a wonderful bike community but unfortunately for me my boys isn't apart of it. He loves his car :O(
Oh well at least I've been able to get him on a bike at all! I got him an old MT bike last year and was able to get him comfortable enough in the street to stop bitching about riding and just bike with me to the store. All that's left now is getting rid of the soda and convincing him a compost pile doesn't have to smell and I'll be content with the progress on his carbon footprint :O)

Mar 30, 2009
Kristen

I've only been to LA once, but lets just say i'm in no hurry to go back! ;)

Austin has tons of coffee shops, with a handfull of really good ones. the specialty coffee scene is just kind of getting formed by some good shops and roasters in the area. caffe medici is my favorite. they really know what they're doing. cuvvee coffee is a good roaster, owl tree roasting, etc. there are also some other good shops like clementine coffee bar, thunderbird, progress coffee house, etc!

cost of living is kind of in the middle. texas is lower in general (much lower than Cali!), but austin is kind of high for texas, because its the "cool" place to live. tons of stuff to do, tons of places to eat, hangout, get coffee, etc. i pay $850 for a one bedroom, in a really nice neighborhood (travis heights). the four major highways here form a rectangle( I35, 290, 183, and Hwy 1 is also called Mo-Pac), and I wouldnt want to live anywhere too far from there. mainly just because thats where everything is going on. you know? if you want a cheaper place to live, i'd either find an apt complex (you can find some pretty cheap ones in good areas if you look!), or somewhere on the east side. the east side is a little more run down, but its way cheaper. Central and south austin are the only places i'd really want to live, though. dont bother looking up north, because its far away from everything and boring! hehe.

let me know if you have more questions!

Mar 30, 2009
Lacey Headley-Collier

friday is going to be awesome! i'm looking forward to it :]*
i'll probly bother you before then so i could get better at fancy latte art!
have an excellent day.

Mar 31, 2009
Lacey Headley-Collier

this site is pretty badass. i'm glad i'm not the only one that takes the title of 'barista' to such serious extents. :]* i'll be fine makin drinks for people while mindy stakes out the cash register. i feel like i've always belonged behind the espresso bar! :]*

Apr 1, 2009
Lacey Headley-Collier

woot then! i've got a music stand, a mic stand, and my friend said we could use her mic until we get another one.

Apr 2, 2009
Kane Blaber

back at ya man, my ink's got nothing on yours!! :-)

Apr 10, 2009
Lacey Headley-Collier

glad you like my origami penguin :]*

Apr 29, 2009
Pablo Castaneda

sure thing mate, we can meet up at Vegas.- that will be great.- Thanks for replying on my discussion as well.-

May 1, 2009
Thea Petrigac

Hey thanks :) I really appreciate it

May 11, 2009
Dex

Hey there thanks for the add your stuff is pretty great to, love the tat!

May 14, 2009
Kane Blaber

well, if the pennies are there I am trying, i only have the one, but have another design in the pipeworks, hopefully it works, it takes coffee related tattoos to another level.

May 30, 2009
Lacey Headley-Collier

i miss you.

May 31, 2009
Meredith

How is your day going today? I am wearing the shirt that matches your tattoo today and decided to say a friendly hello!

Jul 2, 2009
Zechariah White

Love your tat. I'm going to construct a very similar something.

Jan 16, 2010
luiz oliveira

I am going to give you a ring on tuesday.

Apr 30, 2010