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Buy the Drip - Coffee and Business50. Laila Ghambari on Competition, Cafe Profitability, and Coffee Consultingwe sit down with Laila Ghambari, a barista-turned-champion-turned-consultant whose journey through coffee competitions, family business, and specialty retail offers a masterclass in what it takes to build a sustainable coffee career and cafe.Laila shares how growing up in her dad’s Seattle cafe laid the foundation for a lifelong commitment to coffee and how she transformed that passion into a high-impact consulting business. We talk about the mindset shift that led her to win the U.S. Barista Championship, what many cafe owners get wrong about profitability, and the unseen challenges of scaling coffee businesses.Whether you’re a ca...2025-07-031h 09
F'ing UpF'ing Up with Laila Ghambari - S2 E15Laila Ghambari knows success. She worked her way up in the coffee world, from Barista to Executive, all without a college degree. She even competed in the US Barista Championship in 2014 and won. Though she worked her way to the top, her journey did not come without challenges, with experiences such as poor work culture and burnout. About Laila GhambariLaila Ghambari has nearly 20 years of specialty coffee experience. She won the prestigious title of United States Barista Champion in 2014 and was an elected member of the Executive Council for the Barista G...2024-04-1051 min
Keys To The Shop : Equipping Coffee Shop Leaders441: How to Achieve Operational Excellence w/ Laila GhambariA coffee shop cannot survive without having excellent operational systems and tools that bring together and make consistent all the craft, values, and magic we want from a cafe experience Just like the work of a barista, 75% of what we do in ownership and leadership has to do with the things that happen off bar. The foundations of business. How we create, employ, and refine structures means the difference e between realizing potential and courting disaster. Today we are going to be talking with the great Laila Ghambari. An expert in operations and coffee shop tr...2023-11-071h 01
Totally DissolvedLaila Ghambari Gives a Lesson on What Makes a Good Coffee EducatorJoin us for Episode 2 as we sit down with Laila Ghambari and tap into her wide-ranging knowledge of coffee education, training, and general coffee badassery. Dropping on Tues, 15 March!!!
Laila Ghambari got her start in coffee over 15 years at her family’s business, Cherry St Coffee House in Seattle, where she won the title of United States Barista Champion in 2014. She currently works for Stumptown Coffee Roasters as the Director of Cafes. Once a coffee snob, she now drinks her coffee with cream and sugar while juggling her three kids.2022-03-2548 min
5THWAVE - The Business of Coffee and HospitalityReframing the 'leader' - a conversation with Laila GhambariJeffrey Young speaks with Laila Ghambari, Director of Cafes at Stumptown Coffee Roasters, to get a glimpse into how the pioneering specialty coffee business manages its cafes and learn how she has been steering the ship through the turbulent waters of the pandemic.We originally spoke to Laila for our episode on Fostering team culture, but she offered such thought-provoking insights on leadership and navigating through change that we felt the interview deserved an episode of its own. In this conversation, Laila challenges us to rethink the traditional role of the leader and highlights the importance of...2021-03-0431 min5THWAVE - The Business of Coffee and HospitalityFostering team cultureTeams can achieve extraordinary things when human beings feel united and pull towards the same goal. But building powerful workplace team culture can be hard, especially in a café, with staff on different shifts and cafes spaced miles apart.This week we explore how three successful companies foster powerful, united cultures that help their teams and businesses thrive across geographies and even through a pandemic.In this episode, Guido Bernardinelli, CEO of La Marzocco, outlines the company’s management framework, also known as the 4Ps – People, Product, Planet and Profit.We speak to Laila...2021-01-2930 min
The Audio Cafe: for Baristas, Coffeehouses, Coffee LoversACP 057: Levi Gets Interviewed Pt. 3Time 1:10 - Levi talks about the Reversed Irish Coffee recipe, his new favorite coffee cocktail. Time 4:40 - “Where is the industry going with beverage recipes, to mocktails?” Talk a little about bottomless portafilters and the MAVAM espresso machine. Also the DaVinci Gourmet Iced Coffee syrup was mentioned for restaurants that don’t have an espresso machine. Time 5:40 - There is no new origin or ingredients on the market, like the past the stories that spice traders would make up to keep from finding their spices. Barista Meets Barman presentation in TOTC, you have just one machine and one ar...2016-10-1329 min
The Audio Cafe: for Baristas, Coffeehouses, Coffee LoversAudio Cafe 024: Laila Ghambari, Journey to the World Barista ChampionshipI appreciate Laila's honesty and sharing her mistakes as a younger barista. It takes determination to win the United States Barista Championship but it also takes humility to admit you wish you had trained someone a different way. Many lessons and takeways from a very successful and respected barista. More at www.AudioCafePodcast.com/242014-07-281h 01