Coffee People Who Need People
Navigating Relationships Within the World of Specialty Coffee Retail By Erin Meister, Customer Support, Counter Culture Coffee Of course we’re in the field of specialty coffee for the coffee, right? We breathe deeply…
Get it Together
By Christopher Schooley, Coffee Roaster, Coffee Shrub/Sweet Maria’s I remember very clearly what it felt like to walk into my first coffee event. I certainly went into it with some preconceived notions, but…
Discovering Specialty Coffee: South Central
By David Buehrer, Greenway Coffee Company The South Central region of the United States isn’t exactly the most travelled when it comes to coffee. Overlooking such an expansive and rapidly growing area would…
Adaptation: A Brief Look At Changes In Specialty Wholesale Roasting
By Steven Lee, Director of Coffee Quality and Education, Groundwork Coffee Not too long ago, the world of coffee was simpler. Coffee was coffee back then. It came served in nondescript cups. It came…
With Age Comes Wisdom: Smart Growth in Today’s Economy
By Mary Allen Lindemann, Co-Founder, Coffee by Design Of course your business is doing well. Everyone needs coffee. We hear it from customers every day as they enter our bustling coffeehouses. Although it…
Intentional Design
By Michael Phillips, Co-Founder, Handsome Coffee Roasters Over the past year, I have become a member of a very interesting new group, consisting of people so enamored with coffee that they threw caution…
Starting a Small, Simple, Coffee Shop
By Jonathan S. Jarrow, Harbinger, The Coffee Spot I am a coffee person. I am a barista, trainer, manager, roaster, and all around coffee enthusiast. After almost nine years in the business of making coffee,…
Disruptive Innovation: Anticipating the Effects of the Single Serve Market
By James Hoffmann, Co-Owner of Square Mile Coffee Roasters Disruptive innovation is often defined as the kind of innovation that creates new markets. Single serve coffee has certainly been such an innovation—and since its…
Lower Impact Cafés: Simple Steps to Save Now & Contribute to Broader Mitigation Goals
By Tracy Ging, Deputy Executive Director, SCAA Feeling the Effects There is an axiom, you cannot manage what you cannot measure. Without hard data, there is a tendency to…
Shooting for the Stars: Developing a Staff that Shines
By Heather Ringwood In our common thread of specialty coffee, we find coffee to be a premium product that is essential to our business operations, yes? Well, I am here to argue that…
