Keys To The Shop : Equipping Coffee Shop Leaders

It's easy to create an environment in the coffee shop where staff feel they are bound by tight rules and restrictions. In this environment we don't get to see much creative hospitality in the form of solving problems for customers. Today we are chatting about the need to empower your staff to make calls on the bar that reinforce the the values and spirit of the organization.

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Getting your local coffee community to come together can be a powerful way to build networks, friendships, and careers. This is what today's guests have made their mission.

Javier Alvarez and Joseph W. Gonzalez are long time professional baristas who founded Espresso State of Mind in 2017 to give their fellow baristas a platform to showcase talents, meet one another, and excel in their careers. Besides consulting, content creation, and catering, their main focus is on hosting latte art throw downs.

In our discussion today we are going to get an inside look into Espresso State of Mind and walk away motivated by the lessons they have learned, the advice they give for starting something in your own community, and the passion and drive they express for just going out and making your dreams a reality.

Enjoy!

Links:

www.espressostateofmind.com

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The hardest part about building a team is building trust. It does not happen overnight and requires patience, but more than that, it requires consistency in small and big ways. Today we are going to talk about how you can cultivate trust in your staff by building your "Trust-credit".

In the New Year there will be many goals you set for yourself and your business. It is my hope that the message in this episode will help you see those goals come to pass.

Happy New Year!

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That's it! The year is done and to help us ring in the New Year I am re-airing a classic from way back in the day. January 17 2017 is when "Leadership in the Cafe : 10 Steps to being a People First Leader" first aired. Now, three years and 274 episodes later, the message rings just as true and is just as relevant as ever before.

If there is anything you need to do to secure a great year for yourself, your staff, and your business it is focusing on how we show up as leaders in the specialty coffee retail space. This episode gives you some great first steps to achieve that.

I hope you have a happy New Year. Thank you sincerely for listening, sharing, and allowing Keys to the Shop to play a part in your coffee journey.

As you seek to unlock new levels this coming year just remember that YOU... are the keys to the shop!

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It's Founder Friday! Today we get to sit down not once, but twice with Colin Whitcomb of the newly opened Canary Coffee Bar in Milwaukee, WI.

In this episode we talk with Colin a couple months before Canary opened and then 3 months after to get a detailed look inside the planning and running of a new business

Along with being an amazingly nice guy, Colin has been in coffee for 14 years having worked in some of the nations tope coffee bars. He is also a BGA Executive Counsel member and a long time barista competitor. Colin knows coffee and coffee shops and this move to open his own cafe is quite exciting.

There is a lot covered in this 2 part episode and I hope you get a lot form Colin's experiences as an entrepreneur.

You will learn about:

• Canary's unique business concept
• The value of having people help you in the build out
• Dealing with the city
• Learning to let things go
• The most rewarding parts of starting a coffee bar
• The challenges of staffing and gauging business needs
• Self care and time management
• Why you should over capitalize your business

Links:

www.Cararycoffeebar.com

Instagram

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When you start or run a coffee bar you are going to be faced with a ton of options for what products and ideas you will adopt. Saying yes to any and everything can get you and your business in trouble down the road. Today we are going to be talking about why saying "No" can open up more opportunities for success than it closes off and why limitations in the beginning produce freedom in the long run.

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27 Million. That is the number of people who are trapped in modern day slavery. It is a number that may leave many wondering what they can possibly do in the face of such a daunting statistic. However, today's guest decided that she needed to take action and try to make a difference. Esther Hope-Gibbs is a veteran coffee professional, AST instructor, and the Director and Founder of Manumit Coffee Roasters.

Manumit Coffee offers dignity & hope to survivors of modern slavery through training & employment. Their coffee is roasted by men and women who have suffered horrendous exploitation at the hands of traffickers and modern slave traders but are now rebuilding their lives through coffee.

In today's conversation we get to hear the Story of Manumit Coffee and all the positive impact it has had over the last two and a half years since its founding. I am so honored to talk with Esther and love that we get to share this episode about giving people the gift of freedom through coffee on Christmas Eve.

I hope this is inspiring and encouraging!

In this episode you will learn:

• How Manumit Coffee was born
• The unique challenges of training a vulnerable community
• The importance of boundaries
• The necessity and benefit of structure
• How Manumit has facilitated success for survivors
• How to be prepared to take on work with vulnerable people in your business

Links:

BUY MANUMIT COFFEE! www.manumitcoffee.co.uk

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Most everyone has had fun playing this game as kid. While it's a great game parties, it's not so great for the coffee shop. Today we talk about how this game gets started in the cafe and what we can do to "ruin" it before it creates major communication and quality problems in our business.

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Has it been a while since you last trained the staff and practices are outdated or ineffective? As a business grows the need for raising the standards in the shop becomes an absolute necessity. The new year is approaching and if you seek to bring in a new level of quality to you operation then making the right steps in implementing these changes is key to determining whether they stick in the long term and your business stays relevant and competitive.

Today we get to talk about the 3 phases of successfully taking on retraining in the shop and some of the pitfalls to avoid in the process.

You will learn about :

• Taking ownership over status quo
• The value of knowing the details
• Organizing and planning
• Setting up the training sessions
• The right mindset to have in this project
• Creating new normal

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In the coffee shop there are so many expectations placed on us but often the results of the work are not fully within our control. When you combine these two things it is a recipe for stress and burnout. Today we are talking about how we can approach the situation with grace and facilitate staff success rather than blaming them for things that they cannot control. Every shop deals with this in some way and I hope this helps inspire better understanding as we strive for excellence together.

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