Podcast Episodes
Back to Search495 : Encore Episode: Loving the Closing Shift: Problems, Solutions, and Transformational Mindsets
To me, there is something special about the closing shift. Yes there is a lot of work, but there is an honor in tending to the place that just that …
1 year, 8 months ago
493 Founder Friday! w/ Rachel Lehman of Crema Coffee Roasters in Nashville, TN
There are many great coffee shops and roasters in this world. What makes a great cafe in my mind is intentionality, a focus on kindness, consistency…
1 year, 8 months ago
SHIFT BREAK: Embrace Your Space
Designing your coffee shop can be one of the most exciting parts of the opening or scaling process. Exciting, that is, until we come up against resis…
1 year, 8 months ago
492: How to be The Best Coffee Shop
What is the "Best" coffee shop? As long as coffee and coffee shops have been around, us humans have been rather preoccupied with what the best coffe…
1 year, 9 months ago
SHIFT BREAK: Focusing on the Whole, Not the Part
Getting into coffee and then pursuing it as a career takes your through a few different phases of maturation. One of the first phases is where you fo…
1 year, 9 months ago
491: Graceful Exits: How to Sell Your Coffee Shop w/ Aaron Friedman
When you start a business, pretty much all your attention goes to getting it up and running and then to keeping it going and growing it over the hop…
1 year, 9 months ago
SHIFT BREAK: Setting Staff Up For Success
When we talk about our employees it is common to talk about "setting up staff for success", but what does that really look like. Talking about it c…
1 year, 9 months ago
SPECIAL! | Coffee Fest NOLA 2024 w/ Turgay Yildizli of Specialty Turkish Coffee, Doron Petersan of Sticky Fingers Sweets and Eats, and Jonathan Riethmaier of Mammoth Coffee
Welcome to our special episode from Coffee Fest live on the show floor interviews from New Orleans, 2024!
To start us off we will be talking with Tur…
1 year, 9 months ago
490: 7 Vital Things to Include in Daily Shift Work
A shop is maintained by the attention and repeated actions we put into it. We need to make sure our systems and tools are crafted well in order to m…
1 year, 9 months ago
SHIFT BREAK: Reassessing Growth
Growing the business is probably the number one concern in the cafe industry. In general we tend to look at growth as either scaling the size of the…
1 year, 9 months ago