I was quoted yesterday in U.S. News and World Report on the topic of coffee discounts as saying: “The younger generation, particularly, tends to think of coffee cost in terms of ‘cups’ rather than weight and may be surprised to learn that...
Do you want to learn what it takes to win the World Barista Championship? Take this sage advice from reigning world champion (The) Pete Licata posted to his blog today. In seven years of competing, his dedication and organized method of practice led to “thirteen...
A friend of mine in the coffee business complained to a programmer she knows that nobody had yet produced a useable electronic SCAA Cupping Scoresheet, so he sat down and made one… apparently in a day or two. The result is the first functional computer scoring...
Every once in a while you come across a business article that makes you pause and reflect on the author’s keen observation, as I did after reading Margaret Heffernan’s contribution to Inc.com this morning, Strategy & Planning Are Not Optional....
The May 2012 issue of Specialty Coffee Retailer magazine included an article on the topic of effectively implementing a single origin coffee program (or single source, as they call it) in retail coffee shops. The full article is included here, as are my notes from the...
The February 2012 issue of Specialty Coffee Retailer features the article “A Resource for Human Resources,” that focuses on professional employer organizations (PEO’s) and other companies that offer outsourced administrative services that help to...