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Scaling Specialty – Part 3: Small is beautiful, but can big be better?
In the final article of this mini-series we share reflections from people that have scaled specialty coffee chains, plus add some ideas of our own.
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Scaling Specialty – Part 2: The profitability chasm
The profitability chasm starts when headquarters’ costs become greater than the profit generated by the shops. Many operators experience the edge of the chasm at three or four sites.
Think Pieces
Offsetting is for wimps
Announcing an offset scheme is a public confession your business lacks a better plan.
Life & Work
Getting ahead in 2023
It’s going to be another dynamic year. Here’s five tips to help coffee people navigate the coming 12 months.
Industry News
New Openings – Winter 2021/22
Roundup of the new shops catching our attention over Winter 2021/22, plus the trends shaping the industry.
Latest Editor’s Note
What’s been happening this year, plus a sneak peak into 2023
Well done, you’ve made it to the end of another dynamic year.
Opinion
Nicole Ferris – There’s an opportunity for specialty to make ‘quality’ synonymous with both sustainability and taste
There’s an opportunity for specialty to make ‘quality’ synonymous with both sustainability and taste.
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Climate Change & Coffee
Green coffee carbon calculators are wildly inaccurate
Coffee businesses using the current generation of tools risk making poor decisions.
The key cause of a coffee shop’s carbon footprint is (you guessed it) lattes
A new pilot study makes it increasingly clear how the coffee industry can reduce its carbon footprint
Coffee Shop Management
Scaling Specialty – Part 1: Are specialty chains too big to succeed?
With The Gentlemen Baristas recently entering administration, we start a new mini-series identifying the challenges facing specialty chains. This first article explores the hurdles founders must surmount when expanding from one shop to two.
Boost your quality and productivity now, pay later with United Baristas
You can now pay for new coffee equipment over 3, 6 or 12 months. United Baristas Finance enables coffee businesses to upgrade their coffee-equipment to boost business profitability by increasing quality and productivity. Our all-new finance packages provide UK coffee companies with interest-free terms or low-interest monthly instalments when investing in new coffee equipment. There’s…
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Introducing Total Coffee
A new talks programme for coffee people curated by United Baristas. Today we announce the first sessions of the new talks programme, Total Coffee.…
How can we make specialty coffee more sustainable?
Coffee’s scale, reach and connections enable us to play an important role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. We start this new series by…
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