coffee business strategies

Our friends at Conscious Cup of Crystal Lake, Illinois continue to pile-on the recognition and accolades of their fans by winning “Best Coffee Shop in McHenry County” as awarded by the Northwest Herald.
You can read all about it from the Conscious Cup blog.

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Bar None Coffee of Georgetown, Texas continues to build steam and gathers more attention with this recent local press article:

Ex-school worker opens coffee shop
by Alan Tomczak
Georgetown is now home to Bar None Coffee Shop, which is locally owned and is being billed as a “new generation of specialty coffee.”
Linda Silva, owner and former Georgetown school [...]

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For anyone that may have missed my presentation “Achieve Grande Profits from your Coffee Service” at this year’s National Restaurant Association show in Chicago on May 21 can see the visuals from my slide show, below:

A complete audio recording of the 90 minute presentation can be purchased online and downloaded immediately as an MP3 file [...]

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In a recent release that demonstrates their level of expertise on the subject, the Kolache Factory has launched a barista — no, not a coffee shop, a “barista.” It has to be true because no one would be creative enough to make this one up.
I’m pleased to also announce future plans to launch a [...]

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For any of you that were stuck in those long registration lines and missed the sessions, Andrew Hetzel’s two standing room only presentations from the 2007 Specialty Coffee Association annual conference in Long Beach are now available to view online, below:
Negotiation and Bargaining for the Coffee Business Owner

Effective Sales Techniques for Coffee Roasters

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