I would recommend Colin Harmon’s book about running coffee shops to any business owner (or manager) in the coffee industry. Harmon offers some interesting and fairly original insights into best coffee shop practices, but the real value of the book is in the general good business sense it espouses.
The spaces are inviting, the coffee is delicious, and the experiences are memorable. And that, in short, is why you should consider Colin’s advice when it comes to running a coffee shop.
He’s owned and opened four himself since 2009, grown his business into an acclaimed stop for specialty coffee in Dublin, and he himself has become a noteworthy coffee professional. 3fe – or Third Floor Espresso if you prefer – is a name many coffee professionals will recognize, and it understandably carries some admiration.
It’s simply an accounting of the different aspects of running a coffee shop – from picking out the location, to working out budgets, to hiring employees, to figuring out how to please the most difficult customers and solve small, everyday frustrations.
· Magnolia Press Coffee Co. is a large coffee shop on Eighth street that is an extension of Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Magnolia Market. The more spacious nature of Magnolia Press provides a space where students can feel confident that they will be able to get a table, so they don’t waste study time driving from place to place looking for open …
· Commercial coffee roasters will choose machines based on a number of factors, but in a coffee shop setting, it is a different challenge altogether. There is a whole range of machines out there to choose from, each with their own styles, functions, and features. As such, finding the right roaster for your coffee shop is a challenge.
· The Adams’ expect their re-design of the Mario’s building to be done in November, then hope renovations will be done by February or March. The goal is to be open by the spring of next year. The Adams family also owns the salon/former ice cream shop next to Mario’s, which will continue to operate as a salon, according to Sandy Adams.
· “I ended up saying, ‘You know what, I’m gonna roast coffee on my own,’” Wubie said. “2017, I started roasting by hand, the same thing that my mom taught me.” Starting small, Wubie gave coffee beans to neighbours and friends. While he was in Ethiopia, he got into contact with organic coffee farmers and exporters.
· What is excelsa coffee? Discovered in Africa at the turn of the 20th century, excelsa coffee is a unique, resilient, and productive species, despite its minimal presence in the global coffee market. Little information about how much of it is traded, roasted, or brewed is available, since it moves only in very small quantities.
· Coffee is incredibly popular in Sweden. Statista estimates have the country as the third-largest coffee consumer per capita, behind Finland and the Netherlands.. A huge part of this is down to Sweden’s unique coffee culture, which among other things, includes a tradition known as fika.Fika can be defined as a coffee break, a social ritual, a concept, or a state of mind, …
· Park Slope: Long-running cafe and coffee shop Gather permanently closed this spring after eight years in the neighborhood. “2020 and the Covid-19 pandemic has been really hard on us all,” the …
· The new coffee shop “feels like a second home to me,” she says, “and I love the fact that we have our own little group of people that come in …
· Coffee and Symbollicks. Head Rambles Posted on. 25th June 2021. by Grandad 25th June 2021. 2. I was sitting here this morning pondering the vicissitudes of life. Then in a somewhat awkward moment I realised I wasn’t even sure what vicissitudes were. It’s tricky pondering something when you’re not even sure what it means.
· On my way back from the Borealis light installation at Guildhall Yard on Thursday evening, I happened upon an A-board for a speciality coffee shop and wine bar tucked away off Old Jewry, just around the corner from Bank Station. Intrigued by the name, Where’s Fred’s, I stopped by the following day.I didn’t find Fred but I did find some very fine coffee and brunch …
