Cafés & Events
How Many Coffees Should a Cafe Offer?
Why wholesale cafes usually run three coffees instead of four, what dialing in a new one actually costs, and when two is the right number instead.
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Notes from the roastery: what we buy, how we roast it, and what we have learned building coffee programs on the Gulf Coast.
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Cafés & Events
How Much Coffee Does a Coffee Shop Use in a Week?
A pound of coffee is about twenty-five double shots. Here is how a cafe turns its drink count into a weekly poundage, and what dialing in, decaf and bag size do to the...
Cafés & Events
How Often Should You Descale a Commercial Coffee Brewer?
Every published descaling schedule branches on water hardness, and the number it branches on is one your building already has. Here is where to find it, what interval ...
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How Do You Standardize Coffee Shop Recipes?
Recipes rarely fail because staff ignore them. They fail when the bag changes and nobody rewrites the card. What belongs on a recipe card, in grams, and why the coffee...
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Coffee Shop Bar Workflow
Every page written about bar workflow describes a room. None of them asks what is in the hopper. Where a coffee bar actually stalls, and the two supply decisions nobod...
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How Do You Price a Coffee Shop Menu?
Every pricing formula needs an ingredient cost, and none of the guides teaching them derives one. Here is the chain from green coffee to the cup, in grams, and which e...
