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How to Become a Barista

How to Become a Barista

So you want to become a barista. That’s fantastic, because in Canada, 2/3rds of our population or about 24.5 million, drink coffee on a daily basis, making lots of opportunities...

How to Become a Barista

So you want to become a barista. That’s fantastic, because in Canada, 2/3rds of our population or about 24.5 million, drink coffee on a daily basis, making lots of opportunities...

Staff turnover in cafes

Employee retention

Retraining staff incurs both financial and time costs. Each new staff member must be trained to work within the cafe - and even with prior experience, every cafe is different...

Employee retention

Retraining staff incurs both financial and time costs. Each new staff member must be trained to work within the cafe - and even with prior experience, every cafe is different...

Barista Guild

Barista Guild

In the end, we opted out of forming a guild. Maybe that was the wrong choice for baristas in Canada, but at that time the obvious option was to pass...

Barista Guild

In the end, we opted out of forming a guild. Maybe that was the wrong choice for baristas in Canada, but at that time the obvious option was to pass...

First Coffee Experience with Grandpa

First Coffee Experiences and the Third Wave

None of us connoisseurs started off drinking single malt whiskeys or extra hoppy IPA’s. We all had to cut our poison with pepsi or seven up, orange juice until we...

First Coffee Experiences and the Third Wave

None of us connoisseurs started off drinking single malt whiskeys or extra hoppy IPA’s. We all had to cut our poison with pepsi or seven up, orange juice until we...

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