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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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What Should Be on a Coffee Cart Checklist?
The things that end a coffee cart service are small hand tools no venue can lend you. How to rank the list, when to read it, and what belongs on the breakdown half.
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Should a Restaurant Install an Espresso Machine?
Most restaurants don't need the equipment until someone on staff is already pulling shots by hand. Here's the cost, the volume threshold, and when a French press is si...
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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...
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How to Train a New Barista
The order to teach it in, the six things that have to be written down before you leave somebody on the bar, and the four checks that say a new barista is ready to work...
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Why Does Decaf Taste Worse at Coffee Shops?
Decaf on a cafe bar moves slower than anything else, so it sits open longer, shares a grinder, and gets dialed in once. Most of the gap is handling rather than decaffe...
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How Often Should You Clean a Commercial Espresso Machine?
A component-by-component cleaning schedule for a cafe espresso machine, written against shots pulled and group count rather than against days.
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How Do You Know When Milk Is Steamed Enough?
Inheritance trains baristas to stop steaming when the pitcher is too hot to hold. Here is the cue, why we teach it that way, and how to check it on a busy bar.
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How Much Space Does a Coffee Shop Need?
A church in Kansas had the room for a cafe and I still told them not to build it. The size of a coffee shop is decided by what the bar has to do in its busiest fifteen...
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How Often Should You Replace Coffee Grinder Burrs?
Burrs and water filters wear out on volume, not on the calendar. Six months is the working number, and staggering them is what makes it actually happen.
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How Do You Switch Coffee Suppliers?
A cafe changeover is an operations project, not a purchase. What it costs your bar, the order to do it in, why an overlap week is worth buying, and the four places we ...
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How Do You Add a Seasonal Drink to a Coffee Shop Menu?
A seasonal drink is safe when a customer has to order it, and risky the moment it goes into a drink somebody already asked for. One Christmas behind the bar taught me ...
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Can You Serve Coffee at a Trade Show Booth?
Almost every convention hall will let you pour coffee at your booth. What catches exhibitors is the filing calendar in the exhibitor kit, which closes weeks before the...
