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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.
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Series
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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News
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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.
Collection
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.
Get set for 2025
New year, updated United Baristas
We’ve just launched the latest version of United Baristas Services, it's now easier to use and even more connected.
The next chapter of United Baristas
Updates to United Baristas Articles
Recent updates to Articles is the first stage of a new United Baristas design.
Latest Articles
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.
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.
Introducing United Baristas Finance
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.
We can now write your cover letters
Our new Cover Letter Assistant service writes bespoke, personal cover letters. And it's free for coffee people.
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.
Going Local at the Market
It's now easier to explore local items for sale on United Baristas Market.
Coffee Tasting
Coffee Tasting Framework
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.