The Role of Baristas in Starbucks' Success

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Steady Work

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Brewing Success: The Essential Guide to Starting a Coffee Shop in 2023

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Starbucks Success Decoded: The Key Factors That Led To Its Success: Learn How Customer Experience, Loyalty And Satisfaction Make All The Difference

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Latte Dreams

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The Million Dollar Greeting: Today’s Best Practices for Profit, Customer Retention, and a Happy Workplace

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Emma Heathcote-James: Little Soap Company

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Table Busser: How To Be An Outstanding ..., #2

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Buzz: How to Grow Your Small Business Using Grassroots Marketing

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Compassionate Capitalism: How Corporations Can Make Doing Good an Integral Part of Doing Well

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The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary

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Customer Centricity: Focus on the Right Customers for Strategic Advantage

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Stop Selling Vanilla Ice Cream: The Scoop on Increasing Profit by Differentiating Your Company Through Strategy and Talent

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The Candy Maker's Guide: A Collection of Choice Recipes for Sugar Boiling

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Clued In (Review and Analysis of Carbone's Book)

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The Professional Caterer's Handbook: How to Open and Operate a Financially Successful Catering Business

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Starbucks Leadership Lessons

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Excel At Your Business: How To Be An Outstanding Bartender, Server, Cocktail Waitress, #1

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69 Tips to Better Food & Beverage Profit

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Startup Money Made Easy: The Inc. Guide to Every Financial Question About Starting, Running, and Growing Your Business

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The Complete Guide to Buying a Cafe: Practical Advice to Get it Right

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The Professional Bar & Beverage Manager's Handbook: How to Open and Operate a Financially Successful Bar, Tavern, and Nightclub

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Service Mindset: 6 mindsets to lead a high-performing service team

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The Culture Fix: Bring Your Culture Alive, Make It Thrive, and Use It to Drive Performance

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Scrapbooking As A Business

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Service Habits: 21 Habits to Transform Your Service Culture

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Building Your Brand: Big Marketing for Small Business

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Retail Rebranded: Twenty-Seven Secrets of Market Leaders

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Start Up Your Restaurant: The Definitive Guide for Anyone Who Dreams of Running Their Own Restaurant

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Candy Bar Marketing

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The H.E.A.R.T. of Leadership: Understanding Key Characteristics Which Strengthen Organizational Capacity

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Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition

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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Third Edition

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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

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Law of Connection: Lesson 10 from The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

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Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly

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Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People: Over 325 Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases for Working with Challenging Personalities

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Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust

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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition

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Summary of J.L. Collins's The Simple Path to Wealth

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Capitalism and Freedom

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High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out

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Who Moved My Cheese: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review

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Set for Life: An All-Out Approach to Early Financial Freedom

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Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone

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The Richest Man in Babylon: The most inspiring book on wealth ever written

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Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

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Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat: The BRRRR Rental Property Investment Strategy Made Simple

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Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box

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Lying

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition

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Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

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The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed: The Definitive Book on Value Investing

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Grant Writing For Dummies

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Emotional Intelligence: Exploring the Most Powerful Intelligence Ever Discovered

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Robert's Rules Of Order

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The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind

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Conversationally Speaking: Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness, Updated 2021 Edition: Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

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Robert's Rules of Order: The Original Manual for Assembly Rules, Business Etiquette, and Conduct

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The Only Budgeting Book You'll Ever Need: How to Save Money and Manage Your Finances with a Personal Budget Plan That Works for You

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127 : Passion and Curiosity: A Conversation w/ Major Cohen, Sr. Project Manager, Starbucks Global : Starbucks history, developing a career, working as a team, advocating for baristas, teaching coffee, future of baristas, customer experience, importance: No matter where we are in specialty coffee, we have all benefited in some way from the influence of Starbucks and their immense impact on the world stage. Today we get to learn from someone who has not only been in specialty coffee since it first came...

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274 : Crafting Specialty Drinks in your Shop w/ Matt Foster: U.S. Coffee in Good Spirits champion is here to guide you to specialty drink success!  We all want to have a menu that includes unique signature beverages that we love making and customers love drinking. Trouble is, making creative specialty...

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470: SPECIAL! Raising Barista Wages | KTTS x Valor Coffee Podcast Recorded Live at SCA Chicago!: The goal of business is ultimately to provide for people. Firstly a business is stared as a means for the owner to provide for themselves and their family by providing a service and product to customers and thereby providing a demand for the actors in...

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447: Understanding the Business of Coffee w/ Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood: The world of coffee trade and commerce is complex to say the least. The difference between a business that succeeds and one that flounders is largely based on how well we know the business of coffee and how we move wisely within it as we establish and...

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185 : Exploring the La Marzocco Cafe w/ Amy Hattemer and Carolyn Reddy: One of the world's most compelling cafes is also run by one of the world most iconic and trusted espresso machine companies. Located in the lobby of KEXP, the in Seattle, WA has been operating for almost 4 years. Every 4-6 weeks the cafe is...

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412 : Founder Friday! w/ Lem Butler and Kyle Ramage of Black and White Coffee Roasters: It's Founder Friday! Partnerships in coffee bars can be tricky things. You really have to make sure you have complimentary character traits as well as a unified s12et of values to help guide you through the ups and downs of business in a the cafe and...

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The Truth About Owning a Starbucks Franchise License in 2023

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250 : Planning better Events w/ Steven Moloney of The Barista League: These days community and connection are needed more than ever. There can be many hurdles to creating opportunities for having events whether in-person or online, but how we go about planning and execution those events does not have to be one of...

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Growing a Cafe Business From £620,000 to £7.5 Million in Sales In Three and a Half Years with Steve Magnall of Two Magpies Bakery

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467: How to Create Coffee Magic with Your Menu w/ Ryan Castelaz of Discourse Coffee, Milwaukee, WI: The wonder and beauty of coffee is a catalyst for countless career coffee professionals and customers alike. The flavors and creation of special moments that draws us in, satisfy some sense of adventure as well as nurtures a need for belonging. On the...

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126 : Kids in the Coffee Shop! | An exploration of approaches and best practices from two different cafes on opposite sides of the same specialty coffee coin: Kids! When you open a shop you are bound to be serving these little hot chocolate drinking future baristas right along side their single-origin cortado drinking parents. The question is, are they welcome?How do we view them? How do you serve them and...

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457: Competitions and What Makes a Good Barista w/ Scott Conary, Carborro Coffee / WCE Judge: Coffee competitions have grown to be a dominant force for how professionals and consumers alike view the role of a barista, the industry, and coffee itself. Mindsets, businesses, and the supply chain itself has been shaped by the influence of...

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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 foundational idea that "You can do this" and "It is possible". That belief in possibility is what drives today's...

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272 : Coffee for Dummies w/ Major Cohen: How we talk about coffee, relay information about coffee, and represent coffee to our customers and consumers in general, not only determines their attitude toward coffee but will literally shape the coffee industry. Often we get bogged down with...

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215 – Re-Energize Your Brand and Watch Sales Grow with Eric DeLary of Pasta Mamas

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437 : The New Age of the Barista: Mindsets + Habits for Success: What does it take to be successful as a barista or even just a coffee professional today? I believe the main differentiator for cafes is the experience and the main differentiator for baristas is how they approach their role. This will determine what...

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328 : Relationships and Resiliency w/ Xavier Alexander of Metric Coffee: Navigating our way through the coffee industry can be a daunting task. Especially if you want to make a difference. As you go you are confronted with many challenges that threaten your stability and test both your resolve and faith in the reasons you...

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671: Staffan Terje on Respect Yourself and Be Prepared: Chef Staffan Terje was born, raised, AND trained in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1982, after working in Stockholm for a few years, Staffan was offered a job in Sarasota, Florida. His plan was to work for a year in the states. He never left. In 1988, the lure...

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455 : Founder Friday! w/ Nick Kassouf of Tru Bru Organic Coffee: Caring for people and their experience, both as employees and as customers, is at the heart of a successful coffee shop. In order to consistently pursue that, an operator needs to have a strong grounding of personal values that directs their decisions...

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RoR #25 : Training Up the Next Generation of Roasters w/ Steve Lee of Pocket Knife Consulting + Linea Caffe: Effectively training up an apprentice roaster is key not only to your succession, the growth of your business, and the consistency of your quality, -but providing a great learning environment and approach to education and coaching will push the whole...

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Building a Trusting and Collaborative Team Culture with Lisa Rigoli: Looking to build a thriving team in 2024? Listen in as I speak with Lisa Rigoli! Her distinct approach to leadership and team-building helps organizations build human-centric cultures and foster collaborative team dynamics Ready to learn how to scale and grow your business? Then you won’t want to miss this conversation!

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445: Evolution of the Barista-Machine Relationship w/ Ryan Willbur, Middleby Coffee: The magic baristas can render from coffee relies on not just their skill and the incredible efforts from producers and roasters, but also on the quality of the equipment they have to work with. Over the past couple decades the quality and consistency...

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717: Mark Estee on Vertical Integration and Social Capital: Mark Estee is an award-winning chef, restaurateur and visionary on a mission to reinvent dining culture as we know it. Today, Estee owns  in downtown Reno,  in downtown Carson City,  inside the Nevada Museum of Art, the...

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Sipping on Success: Unleashing the Secrets to Building a Thriving Wine Cellar Enterprise with Andy Neja: Calling all wine lovers! This week I had the opportunity to speak with Andy Neja. Andy is the CEO and founder of Cairjn Wine Cellar in Paso Robles, CA. Listen in as he shares the struggles and wins he has experienced while building his business.

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Trade Coffee CMO Melissa Spencer Barnes on capturing the at-home brewing market

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Scaling Your Business with the Right People and Mindset with Scott Simons: This week I am chatting with Scott Simons. Scott is the director of Simons Enterprises Inc., the Co-Founder of The Savage Initiative, the Co-Host of the #1 Clubhouse morning show the Breakfast of Champions, and an investor in several different businesses. Listen in as he breaks down what it took to grow his successful car dealerships and how he has overcome childhood money mindset struggles.

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Level Up Your Branding and Marketing with Barbara Schreihans: Looking for ways to grow your business and increase your sales with on-point branding and social media strategies? Listen in as I hold nothing back on this episode and share how I grew Your Tax Coach and the direction we are headed in 2024.

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Educating a Town About Coffee with Scott McNamara of Gather Coffee Lounge

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555: Michael Serpa on the Art of Creating Regulars: Hailing from a family of chefs, Michael Serpa grew up in the restaurant industry living between Miami and Pennsylvania. After dropping political science at Penn State Serpa attended the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY.  In New...

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Authenticity and Performance: Sometimes it is hard to reconcile our desire for authenticity with the performance and responsibilities that we take on while working in the cafe.  In fact, for many baristas, their distaste and inability to embrace anything that seems prescribed...