Eric Cacciatore is the host of the #1 Podcast for the restaurant industry, Restaurant Unstoppable! A podcast that brings together some of the best and most successful hospitality professionals and seeks to draw out wisdom, advice, and insights to help us also be successful in our hospitality careers. In this weeks show Eric is sharing with us the top 6 …
037 : Chocolate & Coffee w/ Brian Beyke : Understanding Craft Chocolate
Chocolate and coffee seem to be made for each other! Whether you are having a simple well made mocha or pairing a bar with a single origin espresso, chocolate can compliment, enhance, and make more accessible the specialty coffee we serve. Yet, as much as we know about coffee, we tend to fall short when it comes to this very important …
034 : Pour Over & Batch Brew w/ Ryan Soeder
Pour over coffee is often seen as a sign that you take coffee seriously. It implies a level of quality not usually reserved for plain ol’ batch brew. Batch brew is seen as a bit more pedestrian. Customers may even assume that, compared to pour over, batch brew is inferior in quality. The truth? It all depends. Today we take …
032 : Making Order out of Chaos : Dealing with Groups Ordering in the Cafe
Fear, frustration, stress…we all have experienced one or more of these feelings when we deal with groups in the cafe. Be they a family, friends, or study group we can sometimes have trouble managing the group dynamic and the chaos that can often accompany it. In spite of all this though the group does not represent a hurdle to jump over …
031 : Essential Advice for New Baristas : Tips to help you successfully navigate and thrive in your new coffee career
Click here to SUBSCRIBE! Being a new barista can be both very exciting and very stressful. There is an almost never ending list of policies, recipes, practices, and rules that make up this new work of cafe service you are now immersed in. On today’s show you and I talk about some essential tips that will help you not only navigate …
025 : Mastering the Art of Training w/ Dave Stachowiak : Coaching, Leadership, education , and how to communicate your coffee and barista knowledge so it sticks
Dave Stachowiak (STA-HOW-VEE-AK) is the host and founder of Coaching for Leaders, a top 10 careers podcast on iTunes downloaded over 200K+ times monthly. Coaching for Leaders was recently selected by Inc. Magazine as one of the 12 Podcasts That Will Make You a Better Leader. Dave was also listed as one of the 25 professional networking experts to watch …
023 : U.S. Barista Champion, KYLE RAMAGE! We chat with Kyle about his recent victory, details of his presentation, thoughts on specialty coffee, and lessons he’s learned on the road to winning the title
Fresh off his victory in Seattle, Kyle Ramage of Mahlkonig USA took some time to talk with us about the competition. We get into the details of his routine, his drinks, his presentations message, his dry ice frozen coffee and the challenges/lessons he experienced on the road to winning the U.S. Championship title. LINKS: www.keystotheshop.com www.mahlkonig.com www.worldcoffeeevents.org www.cafeshow.com …
021: How to Leverage you Performance Review : 7 Tips for how Baristas can the Most out of the Review ProcessÂ
021: How to Leverage you Performance Review : 7 Tips for how Baristas can the most out of the Review Process Reviews can be a great experience. They can also be frustrating and challenging. They key is in how you go into the review and how you respond to the feedback given. Today we will cover 7 tips that will …
015 : What to do if You don’t Advance w/ Anne Nylander : How to take the next step in your barista/coffee career
CLICK HERE TOÂ SUBSCRIBE! Sometimes, in spite of doing all the right things and taking all the right steps, advancement just does not happen. Today we talk with Anne Nylander about how to navigate the tricky terrain of leaving your job in pursuit of the next step in your career. We talk about how to bring up the topic with …
014 : A Barista’s Guide to Advancing: How to take full advantage of where you are and set yourself up for success in coffee
KTTS 014 : A Barista’s Guide to Advancing: How to take full advantage of where you are and set yourself up for success in coffee CLICK HERE TOÂ SUBSCRIBE! We all want to make progress and be fulfilled in our work. For many of us though frustration in our jobs causes us to not take full advantage of our current role …
