Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSustainability Series #2 : Importing & Roasting
Sustainability is a collaborative effort that relies on solid networks, relationships, and communication. This is mainly the responsibility of import…
4 years, 10 months ago
Sustainability Series #1 : The Farm
Welcome to the Sustainability Series from Biocaf and Keys to the Shop!
To kick off this series we will be exploring sustainability where all the pot…
4 years, 10 months ago
304 : Inside the Coffee Data Trends Breakout Report w/ Katie Von Der Lieth of the SCA
How do we gauge the markets our coffee shops serve? On top of being engaged in our own local ecosystems we must also pay attention to large scale tre…
4 years, 10 months ago
Announcing: "The Sustainability Series" Brought to you by Biocaf !
Exciting news! On Wednesday, September 22nd, Keys to the Shop along with Biocaf, will be releasing a 4 part narrative series focused on exploring sus…
4 years, 10 months ago
Make Everything Like Latte Art
Baristas are obsessed with it! The question we have to ask is, why?Most of us don't need to get people interested in latte art. In fact many of you p…
4 years, 10 months ago
303 : Create Authentic Partnerships w/ Marc Gessler of Cat & Cloud Coffee
Ideally, the nature of your relationship with your wholesale customers is less like a transaction and more like a partnership. How do we approach car…
4 years, 10 months ago
Study the Rules
If you want to do well in competition you have to study the rules. Without this you are flying blind and will probably get a less that stellar resul…
4 years, 10 months ago
302 : Data's Roll in the Success of your Shop w/ Mark Calhoun and Jim Strarcev of Perfect Cube
There is a lot of information available to us through our POS systems that show us the numbers behind the business. Owners and managers read these nu…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Quality Standards Equation
If your shop does not have specific standards for the products your serve and the way you serve them, then you are leaving a lot of the success of yo…
4 years, 11 months ago
301 : Hiring and Training for Excellence
These are the two most important and intensive processes in the cafe yet they often are the most rush and poorly thought through. The preparations we…
4 years, 11 months ago