Podcast Episodes

SPECIAL! Part 2 | Coffee Fest Anaheim 2023 w/ Steve Chang of Copa Vida Cafe and Jon Ferguson of Coffee Tech Central

Welcome to Part 2 of the Coffee Fest live on the show floor interviews from Anaheim, CA 2023!

This time we are starting off with an interview with St…

2 years, 8 months ago

SPECIAL! Part 1| Coffee Fest Anaheim 2023 w/ Kenneth Davids and Madeleine Longoria Garcia

Welcome to Part 1 of the Coffee Fest live on the show floor interviews from Anaheim, CA 2023!

It was a pleasure to kick things of with coffee legend …

2 years, 8 months ago

429 : Believing You CAN Run a Great Shop w/ Michael Ryan of Threadbare Coffee Consulting

In the face of necessary reality checks and the inherent ups and downs of starting and running a coffee shop, there must always exist the foundationa…

2 years, 8 months ago

428 : Founder Friday | Maxwell Mooney's Final Chapter at Narrative Coffee and New Beginnings

Early on in the podcast (2019) I had Maxwell on to tell the story of Narrative and then 3 more times since then to discuss deeper topics related to r…

2 years, 9 months ago

For Here or To-Go?

What would you think if you went to a sit down restaurant an hour before close where, after seating you, they brought your food out in doggie bags "b…

2 years, 9 months ago

427 : Encore Episode: What you MUST Know About Employee Culture w/ Stan Slap

While culture is a needed focus, today it has become the hottest buzz word that can mean almost anything. What is most useful these days as we rightl…

2 years, 9 months ago

426: Fostering a Culture of Continuous Improvement

Having an engaged staff that are motivated and inspired to not just get through the shift, but to truly invest into the cafe and help improve things …

2 years, 9 months ago

Generate More Urgency!

So many things vie for our attention in the day-to-day work of the coffee shop. In the midst of the fires we need to put out, questions that need ans…

2 years, 9 months ago

425 : Some Thoughts on Supporting Your Manager

Managers hold the key to the success of the shop. They are tasked with taking all the people, place, and processes and making them work well together…

2 years, 9 months ago

Faithfulness and Honesty

It is easy to get discouraged in running a cafe. There are a million things to do and the temptation to despair becomes worst when we hold an idealiz…

2 years, 9 months ago