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426: Fostering a Culture of Continuous Improvement

Having an engaged staff that are motivated and inspired to not just get through the shift, but to truly invest into the cafe and help improve things is a dream shared by many owners. This culture wher

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909 Martin Mayorga: Scaling Specialty Coffee And Profitability | The Daily Coffee Pro Podca

This is the 2nd in a 5 part series with Mayorga Coffee Founder, Martin Mayorga. Martin is a highly successful coffee entrepreneur and mentor in the coffee industry. In this series, Martin and Lee expl

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908 Martin Mayorga: Specialty Coffee: Broken Business Models | The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast

This is the first in a 5 part series with Mayorga Coffee Founder, Martin Mayorga. Martin is a highly successful coffee entrepreneur and mentor in the coffee industry. In this series, Martin and Lee ex

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907 Marianella Baez Jost: Successful Direct Trade Coffee | The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast

This is the 5th of a 5-part series with Costa Rican Coffee Producer, Marianella Baez Jost. Marianella is the co-owner of Café con Amor and a member of The Farmers Project which exports coffee out of C

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Generate More Urgency!

So many things vie for our attention in the day-to-day work of the coffee shop. In the midst of the fires we need to put out, questions that need answers, and ideas everyone has (both good and bad) we

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906 Marianella Baez Jost: Myths About Coffee Producers | The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast

This is the 4th of a 5-part series with Costa Rican Coffee Producer, Marianella Baez Jost. Marianella is the co-owner of Café con Amor and a member of The Farmers Project which exports coffee out of C

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905 Marianella Baez Jost: Failures of Direct Trade Coffee | The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast

This is the 3rd of a 5-part series with Costa Rican Coffee Producer, Marianella Baez Jost. Marianella is the co-owner of Café con Amor and a member of The Farmers Project which exports coffee out of C

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904 Marianella Baez Jost: Financial Realities of Direct Trade Coffee For Producers | The Da

This is the 2nd of a 5-part series with Costa Rican Coffee Producer, Marianella Baez Jost. Marianella is the co-owner of Café con Amor and a member of The Farmers Project which exports coffee out of C

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Context Matters with Junior's Roasted Coffee

Coffee is in crisis, and one of the big problems is that some farmers aren't paid enough to cover their production costs. A new template from the team at Junior's Roasted Coffee looks to chang

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903 Marianella Baez Jost: Defining Direct Trade Coffee | The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast

This is the first of a 5-part series with Costa Rican Coffee Producer, Marianella Baez Jost. Marianella is the co-owner of Café con Amor and a member of The Farmers Project which exports coffee out of

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902 Rana Hassanieh: Coffee Professionals in Lebanon | The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast

This is the 5th of a 5-part series with Lebanese coffee professional and cafe owner Rana Hassanieh. Rana is the co-founder of Edda Arabica Coffee in Beruit, Lebanon, certified SCA AST, certified Q Gra

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The One With Builds And Block Party From Partners Coffee

Welcome to another episode of the coffee podcast The Coffee Sprudgecast with hosts Zachary Carlsen and Jordan Michelman. In this episode, Michelman and Carlsen drink Block Party, the new limited-relea

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425 : Some Thoughts on Supporting Your Manager

Managers hold the key to the success of the shop. They are tasked with taking all the people, place, and processes and making them work well together day to day. When a manager is correctly supported

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901 Rana Hassanieh: Coffee Consumers in Lebanon | The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast

This is the 2nd of a 5-part series with Lebanese coffee professional and cafe owner Rana Hassanieh. Rana is the co-founder of Edda Arabica Coffee in Beruit, Lebanon, certified SCA AST, certified Q Gra

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Faithfulness and Honesty

It is easy to get discouraged in running a cafe. There are a million things to do and the temptation to despair becomes worst when we hold an idealized version of ourselves and our work in our heads e

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900 Rana Hassanieh: Lebanese Specialty Coffee Industry | The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast

This is the 3rd of a 5-part series with Lebanese coffee professional and cafe owner Rana Hassanieh. Rana is the co-founder of Edda Arabica Coffee in Beruit, Lebanon, certified SCA AST, certified Q Gra

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#899 Rana Hassanieh: Cafes Surviving Hyperinflation | The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast

This is the 2nd of a 5-part series with Lebanese coffee professional and cafe owner Rana Hassanieh. Rana is the co-founder of Edda Arabica Coffee in Beruit, Lebanon, certified SCA AST, certified Q Gra

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424: Developing Menu and Hospitality Guides

When it comes to our training and resourcing of staff we often have a desire for people to get it and to be detail oriented, but fail to give them much to get or to orient them to the details. Thi

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#898 Rana Hassanieh: Hyperinflation in Lebanon’s Coffee Industry | The Daily Coffee Pro Pod

This is the first of a 5-part series with Lebanese coffee professional and cafe owner Rana Hassanieh. Rana is the co-founder of Edda Arabica Coffee in Beruit, Lebanon, certified SCA AST, certified Q G

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#897 [ENCORE] Lena Parker: Becoming Energy Secure in Coffee | The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast

This is the final episode in a 5-part series with Lena Parker (Lee's twin sister) joining the podcast for the first time to discuss her expertise, energy security, transition, emissions, transfer, and

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423 : Founder Friday! w/ Danny and Michelle Quiroz of Reserva Coffee Roasters | McAllen, TX

I am so excited to present this Founder Friday with two people who are doing amazing things in coffee! I met them in the first year of their business in 2018 as clients and they have done a great job

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Three Questions for Better Cafe Decisions

Everyday we make decisions about both small and large things in the coffee shop. Often those decisions are made in a reactive way that is more born from a sense of urgency and FOMO than intentionality

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#896 [ENCORE] Lena Parker: Energy Transition and Coffee | The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast

This is the 4th in a 5-part series with Lena Parker (Lee's twin sister) joining the podcast for the first time to discuss her expertise, energy security, transition, emissions, transfer, and sustainab

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ROR #24 : Perspectives on Roasting for Espresso w/ Jaroslav Tuček of Doubleshot, Czech Repu

Roasting for espresso is a tricky business. Not only are there multiple variables that inherently complicate the extraction process but there is also a wide variety of opinion is and preferences for w

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422: Coffee Truck Success w/ Vincent LaVolpa of Green Joe Coffee School

One of the best options for getting started in coffee without as much risk is a coffee truck. Especially emphasized post-pandemic, mobile concepts like coffee trucks have grow exponentially and with i

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#895 [ENCORE] Lena Parker: and Coffee | The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast

This is the 3rd in a 5-part series with Lena Parker (Lee's twin sister) joining the podcast for the first time to discuss her expertise, energy security, transition, emissions, transfer, and sustainab

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Sunergos Union Workers Fight to Make Their Voices Heard

The coffee chain won its union vote in January 2023—and is still waiting on leadership to ratify a contract. A full transcript of this episode is available at

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#894 [ENCORE] Lena Parker: Energy Security | The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast

This is the 2nd in a 5-part series with Lena Parker (Lee's twin sister) joining the podcast for the first time to discuss her expertise, energy security, transition, emissions, transfer, and sustainab

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#893 [ENCORE] Lena Parker: Energy in The Coffee Supply Chain | The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast

This is the 1st in a 5-part series with Lena Parker (Lee's twin sister) joining the podcast for the first time to discuss her expertise, energy security, transition, emissions, transfer, and sustainab

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The Courage to Correct

While we always want to assume our staff are aspiring for the highest standards, we know that they (just like us) need help. In the course of the day there are many opportunities to speak into the liv

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#892 [ENCORE] Judy Ganes: The Storms Ahead In Coffee | The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast

This is the final episode in a 5-part series with Judy Ganes from J Ganes Consulting. In this series, Judy and Lee explore the theme The Year Ahead in Coffee addressing subjects including the prici

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#891 [ENCORE] Judy Ganes: Robusta is the Future | The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast

This is the first in a 5 part series with Mayorga Coffee Founder, Martin Mayorga. Martin is a highly successful coffee entrepreneur and mentor in the coffee industry. In this series, Martin and Lee ex3