Hiring a Barista: How to Choose the Best Staff for Your Cafe

The Canadian coffee industry is a $5 billion enterprise employing over 54,000 people. Canadians love their coffee and that's unlikely to change anytime soon. Plus, exciting new trends in coffee are bound to emerge and the quality of the products on offer will keep...

Hiring a Barista: How to Choose the Best Staff for Your Cafe

Hiring a Barista: How to Choose the Best Staff for Your Cafe

The Canadian coffee industry is a $5 billion enterprise employing over 54,000 people. Canadians love their coffee and that's unlikely to change anytime soon. Plus, exciting new trends in coffee are bound to emerge and the quality of the products on offer will keep...

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Café Startup Convos – Tara of Lighthouse Café

Café Startup Convos – Tara of Lighthouse Café

https://youtu.be/c01hC2THPbY We had a chance to sit down with Tara from Lighthouse Café and learn about her startup journey. Tara studied in the culinary world before moving into an admin role after school. Her dream became to open up a Café that would be engrained in...

Café Startup Convos with Jeanne from 60Beans

Café Startup Convos with Jeanne from 60Beans

https://youtu.be/B4LvzaBXBkQ Jeanne was a private consultant before she. joined her sisters to open 60Beans. Their family had previous ties to the coffee world as they were growing up, so a coffee shop made sense to open with each other. Their desire was to have...

Cold Pressed Espresso

Cold Pressed Espresso

I see questions on R/coffee and Quora asking about ‘cold pressed espresso’ or ‘cold brewed espresso’. Most of the answers, and the YouTube videos seem to recommend a recipe using either a) espresso that has been brewed hot and cooled or chilled (yuck!) or b) using...

Barista Movie

Barista Movie

https://youtu.be/avKGjeoi9KY What does it take to make the perfect cup of coffee?  Four passionate National Barista Champions from the United States (Kyle Ramage), Ireland (Niall Wynn), Germany (Chloe J. Nattrass) and Japan (Miki Suzuki) represent their countries...

How Coffee Is Made

How Coffee Is Made

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Beans and Genes

Beans and Genes

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