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Coffee businesses are people businesses. Managing people is a learnt set of skills. This collection compiles tips for hiring and managing coffee people.
Coffee is both contributes to global warming and is impacted by climate change. This collection compiles articles exploring causes and impacts from crop to cup.
Working in coffee is dynamic, engaging and full of possibilities. This collection compiles articles to help people navigate life and work in coffee.
Running a coffee shop can be challenging, but is ultimately a rewarding job. This collection compiles articles for managers and owners.
Coffee’s scale, reach and connections enables us to play an important role in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.
Appreciating and communicating coffee’s distinctive flavours.
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Exploring how the industry can better communicate speciality coffee’s distinct and vibrant flavours.
Exploring how specialty coffee can cut its carbon emissions, from crop to cup. We want to understand how the industry can play its part in reaching net zero.
Exploring how coffee become more sustainable. We want to understand how specialty coffee can better align itself with the Sustainable Development Goals.
What is coffee’s carbon footprint? What are the most significant contributors? We want to understand the industry’s emissions from crop to cup.
Mini-series exploring the challenges specialty chains face as they grow. We want to understand why some coffee shop businesses survive when others fail.
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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.
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Identifying coffee's distinctive flavours
Reinventing the wheel
Coffee tasting notes are broken because the SCA’s Flavour Wheel is incoherent. We need a new framework that’s accurate, intuitive and grounded in how people actually perceive flavour.
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Is the price right?
Let’s make the alt-milk surcharge fit-for-purpose
We can get better environmental outcomes, and boost shop profitability, by updating coffee menu pricing.
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What a year it’s been! And three reasons why 2021 will be much better
Why United Baristas has been investing in the future of the coffee industry
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It’s going to be a marathon not a sprint
United Baristas founder Tim Ridley looks at how coffee businesses can survive, and even thrive, as lockdown lifts in the latest issue of Boughton's Coffee House.
It's costly and the money is much needed elsewhere
Strengthening the coffee industry by eliminating the reusable cup discount
Here’s why, how we should use the money instead, and why this is a good moment to implement this change.
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We’ve made progress on wages, but there’s still much more work to be done
Analysis comparing wage, revenue, and inflation over the past two years shows the coffee industry is paying its staff more by raising prices
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Looking at the cost and benefit to lowering environmental impacts through eliminating takeout cups
Learning from the Boston Tea Party experience
Celebrating the kaleidoscope of coffee
As Allegra Strategies launches a magazine on the business of coffee, called 5th Wave, United Baristas examines coffee industry trends
Not introducing the Latte Levy is a victory for common sense
We now need a massive win for the environment
The proposed Latte Levy isn’t fit-for-purpose. Here’s how we can make it better.
Back-of-the-napkin maths explains why many coffee shops would break planning law — and be forced to shut up shop.
Wasting Less, But We’re Still Left Wanting More From The Proposed Latte Levy
How the Latte Levy, combined with other legislative changes, can tackle takeout coffee cup waste. A summary for the specialty coffee community and a response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s report, ‘Disposable Packaging: Coffee Cups’.
Boost productivity
How Baristas Can Get Paid More
Baristas and managers should work together to make workflows more efficient.
Coffee Tasting
Coffee Tasting
Identify & communicate each coffee's distinctive flavours
Discover how to identify a coffee's defining characteristic, understand why some coffees are tastier than others, and recognise the coffee drinkers that will find it appealing.
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