About United Baristas

Coffee is the world's most amazing beverage

Coffee connects us

United Baristas is open to all coffee people and businesses, but we specialise in the specialty, artisan and independent segments of the market.

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United Baristas connects the coffee industry

Services

Connecting baristas and business

Our Services connect the coffee community to perform tasks such as recruitment, equipment procurement and maintenance.

Our extensive industry contacts and experience give us deep insight into issues, trends and the future of the industry.

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Articles

Promoting a viable & vibrant future

We also write on topics including: the industry's viability, growth and prospects; sustainability challenges; and working life in coffee.

We have specialisms on coffee's carbon footprint, coffee shop viability, recruitment and coffee pricing.

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Our Story

A interconnected suite of services

United Baristas started in 2015 with Marketplace, an online service to help keep used coffee equipment in use for its full working life. A key objective was to reduce the industry's enviornmental impacts.

We've grown quickly, nearly doubling in size each year since. Today our services incorporate both new and used equipment, events, finance, a jobs board and an industry directory.

Our Values

Action

It takes many people to make a single cup

Specialty coffee has the power to provide meaningful livlihoods for people across the coffee supply chain, as well as supporting sustainable agriculture and reducing environmental impacts.

We've been working to cut coffee's carbon footprint and to help industry align their practices with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. There's still much to do, but real progress has been made.

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Ideas into action

Let’s meet for coffee at Ensemble

United Baristas is transforming a coffee shop in King's Cross, London. It'll host our events and be a testbed for ideas.

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Managing Coffee Shops

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Coffee Business Management, Ensemble, Viability & Profitability

Tasty, tasty coffee

Introducing the Coffee Tasting Framework

United Baristas wants to kickstart a community-wide conversation on how we can better communicate coffee’s distinctive flavours. Better tasting notes are fundamental for the industry’s viable future. More accurate communication can empower consumers and support specialty coffee’s price premium.