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Keys To The Shop : Equipping Coffee Shop Leaders401 : Founder Friday! w/ Jack Benchakul of Endorffiene Coffee Bar in Los AngelesCreating a moment of delight and excellence is what we all want to do when we set up our shops and make coffee for others. We also want to be delighted ourselves with the things we create and feel a sense of pride in each and every drink. Given the range of beverages we serve, that is pretty rare to find. But at least one place manages to strike this balance and has been doing so with singular focus for the past 8 years. Today we get to talk with the owner of the Award winning cafe, Endorffeine...
2023-03-231h 00Keys To The Shop : Equipping Coffee Shop Leaders327: Founder Friday! w/ Phuong Tran of Lava JavaToday we get to talk with a pillar and foundational member of the specialty coffee community, Phuong Tran of Lava Java For 20 years now Phuong Tran has been the owner/operator of the famed coffee shop, Lava Java in Ridgefield Washington. There she discovered a passion for coffee that led her to not only craft the shop into a beacon of hight standards in the beginning of the 3rd wave of coffee, but she also became inspired to begin competing to in barista competitions as a way to improve. She won the U.S. title in 2005 and...
2022-01-2857 minKeys To The Shop : Equipping Coffee Shop Leaders320 Founder Friday! w/ Francesco Sanapo of Ditta Artigianale, Florence, ItalyIt's Founder Friday! Today we are going to be exploring the story of a ground breaking and standard setting Italian coffee roaster and cafe. Our guest on this last Founder Friday of 2021 is the founder of Caffe Artigianale, Francesco Sanapo! From learning the classic Italian way of coffee working for his fathers coffee bar at age 14 - to discovering specialty coffee eventually becoming a 3 time Italian Barista Champion and WBC finalist, Francesco wanted to take his knowledge of Italian coffee history and make it beautiful again through a progressive specialty lens. Since founding Ditta Artigianale i...
2021-12-171h 00Keys To The Shop : Equipping Coffee Shop Leaders309 : A Conversation w/ Sarah Allen and Ken Olson of Barista MagazineFew things are as essential to the global barista community as Barista Magazine. For 16 years they have been "Serving people Serving Coffee" and advancing the knowledge, craft, and profession of the barista with every issue. Barista Magazine gives a platform and voice to the vibrant and amazing people who make amazing coffee and today we get to talk with the founders, Sarah Allen and Kenneth Olsen, All about how it started, grew, and their perspectives on the growth of the industry they have been faithfully reflecting all these years. Sarah Allen, the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Barista Ma...
2021-10-191h 03Keys To The Shop : Equipping Coffee Shop Leaders273 : Founder Friday w/ Anne Lunnel and Charles Nystrand of Koppi Coffee Roasters, Helsingborg, SwedenI am thrilled to get to feature Anne Lunnel and Charles Nystrand of Koppi: Fine Coffee Roasters on this month's Founder Friday! Founded in 2007, Koppi not only established itself as of Sweden's preeminent third wave coffee companies but also as one of the world's best roasters. Both Anne and Charles have one the Swedish Barista Championship and additionally Anne has won the Swedish Brewers Cup finishing 6th in the world. Their business was established as a roaster retailer in their home town of Helsingborg where they focused on sourcing and serving amazing coffees through a d...
2021-03-2651 minKeys To The Shop : Equipping Coffee Shop Leaders265 : Gaining Clarity on Transparency w/ Jonas Lorenz of The PledgeTransparency. We see it increasingly being used as a tool to signify responsible commerce and trade among coffee roasting companies. But what is it exactly? Are we approaching it in a meaningful way? How do we define and practice transparency in a way that will actually make the difference we want to see it make? These are questions that will get answered today as we talk with Jonas Lorenz, co-author of The Pledge. The Pledge was designed to function A common code for transparency reporting in green coffee buying. Companies that sign The Pledge agree to share p...
2021-02-0837 minKeys To The Shop : Equipping Coffee Shop LeadersSlowing down your Response TimeOne of the most counterintuitive ways to make progress in the right direction just may be slowing down your decision making and response time. We are bombarded with pressure everyday from all sides to make decisions about a myriad of subjects both large and small. Often we will resort to making quick decisions in the moment that we might regret later. In today's Shift Break we will be talking about why slowing your your response time can create a greater likelihood for good decisions down the road. Related Episodes: 184 : Making Great Business Decisions w/ Dave St...
2020-12-1907 minKeys To The Shop : Equipping Coffee Shop LeadersFounder Friday w/ Klaus Thompson of the Coffee Collective, Denmark!I am thrilled to present this amazing conversation w/ Klaus Thompson to you all today! The Coffee Collective is at the top of a very short list of the world's best and most influential roasters. Today's guest, Klaus Thompson, is not only a Danish barista champion but is also the 2006 World Barista Champion. In 2007 Klaus, along with his co-founders Peter N. Dupont and Casper Engel Rasmussen, founded the Coffee Collective with a mission to build a different kind of coffee business from the ground up. One the focused on sustainability and hospitality both at the farm and in the c...
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