What type of coffee, cappuccino or other beverage will not be missing in the menus of the next season and how to prepare them to perfection? In this section of Coffee & News, you will find the latest trends, recipes and tips for baristas: everything you need to manage, take care of and help the growth of your café to win your customers’ hearts.
Coffee is good for love. This is true every day and even more on Valentine’s Day. Indeed, field studies and tests have shown that this tasty beverage doesn’t only taste great and have a beneficial effect on our mood but is also revitalising and aphrodisiac—it’s good both for our mind and our heart.
A café is like a second home: each customer, entering his or her favourite café, expects to find a cosy, friendly environment. Sometimes though, regular customers need to be surprised: why don’t you leave them open-mouthed with a fast cheap and chic restyling?
The loveliest time of the year is just around the corner and you don’t know how to create a Christmas atmosphere that makes your customers think of sweet snowy landscapes? If you put these five simple ideas into practice, none of your customers will be able to walk out of your coffee shop without first breathing the scent of snow in the air.
The relationship with customers, advertising, public relations… anyone who believes the success of a restaurant or a café is exclusively based on these elements, besides the menu offered, hasn’t taken into consideration an equally essential aspect: stock supply and management.
Nothing of the best things that nature gives us is ever throw away. And with a little effort and creativity, everything can find a second creative and eco-friendly use. Coffee is no exception and after use, it can become the ideal soil to grow edible mushrooms at home. This is how you can do it!
Inaugurating the day with a dear old steaming cappuccino served at your favourite café is a tradition for most Italians. This evergreen drink made of espresso and milk foam has recently been reinvented with gourmet, creative trends such as latte art.
Going back to school to learn the fragrant art of coffee… is this your plan? Whether you are a newbie or already work in the industry roasting coffee, selling coffee beans or as a café manager and want to get new tools of the trade and expand your wealth of knowledge and know-how, there are many training courses.
Here we are: the furniture has been assembled, you nearly have all the equipment behind the counter, the walls have been freshly painted… what did you say? Haven’t you picked a name yet?
