Keys To The Shop : Equipping Coffee Shop Leaders

One of the most critical parts of leadership in a cafe is how you invest in developing those you lead. Depending on how it is done, evaluating and assessing performance can either inspire and encourage, or it can deflate and discourage.  Today on Shift Break we will be talking about how to think about and conduct asses

Learning to roast and hone one's skill in the craft is a difficult task. Add to that the pursuit of competition and leading an entire department of a to U.S. coffee business and you have yourself one very talented coffee professional.  Today I am thrilled to interview the new U.S. Roasting Champion, Eduardo Choza! Edua

Too many times we confuse giving feedback with lecturing our staff which easily shuts down the person we were intending to communicate with. Feedback is critical to your culture but, As past guest and friend of the show,Tom Henschel has said, "Feedback is not a lecture, it is a conversation.  Today on Shift Break we wi

Developing the wholesale arm of your coffee roasting company boils down to the  value can you offer your potential customers.  Beyond the coffee itself, your wholesale customer needs assistance in their own coffee journey and your company, specifically the reps, need to be able to be equipped to deliver that help. At t

Welcome to another episode in the live from Coffee Fest interview series!  This is a series of 4 conversations with presenters on the show floor at Coffee Fest NYC. The topics range from how to connect with community, running a successful mobile coffee operation, getting your coffee into grocery stores, and how to appr

How many times have we fallen prey to assumptions about one another in the cafe that end up creating needless strife and hold back progress at maybe the most critical point in the supply chain? Answer, too many times to count. We create these characterizations and generalizations at our own peril and wonder why there i