coffee business strategies

Neat article on MSN (in their City Guides section) looks at Seattle’s coffee culture and discusses barista competitions. Thanks to Starbucks, coffee is big business in America, where specialty espresso drinks—lattes, cappuccinos, macchiatos—have replaced the diner “cup of joe.” But long before Starbucks was a household name, the coffee revolution was underway in mid-1970s Seattle, [...]

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Julie Gomoll, founder of Austin’s forthcoming Coworking Cafe, accounts for a barista training session hosted by our friends at Cuvee Coffee in 3 day’s worth of blog entries with very good photographs. It’s an excellent overview of what any new cafe owner should expect from an initial training session. Don’t settle for less. Barista training [...]

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Unknown to me until I randomly stumbled upon it online, the Honolulu Advertiser gave our coffee training event top billing in a mention last Sunday for the upcoming Kona Coffee Cultural Festival. Sherri Johns got the picture.

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Hot off of the proverbial presses, the announcement that I will be instructing for the BEST Coffee School of Eugene, Oregon. Read: Eugene, Oregon (PRWEB) August 28, 2007 – BEST Coffee School announces that retail consultant Andrew Hetzel has joined the teaching staff of its specialty coffee training center in Eugene, Oregon. “Andrew brings a [...]

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Online registration is now open for the 2007 Kona Coffee Cultural Festival barista training workshop on Thursday, November 8, 2007. Register before October 15 and receive an “early bird” discount. Visit the registration website for additional course details and to reserve your space today!

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