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Finding the right person adds value to your operations, culture and profitability. Follow these tips gathered from United Baristas and from across the coffee industry to better your barista recruitment and increase business performance.
More Tips for hiring great baristas
Coffee drinking is both fun and an essential part of life as a barista. But how much coffee should a barista drink? Why does coffee make people poo? And how can coffee professionals best manage their caffeine habit?
More Drinking Coffee for Shits and Giggles: What baristas need to know about their caffeine habit
United Baristas analysis shows how we can get better environmental outcomes and enhance shop viability by updating our coffee menu pricing
More Is the price right? Let’s make the alt-milk surcharge fit-for-purpose in 2021
From Barista League’s High Density conference 2021, this video is packed full with information to reduce your coffee’s carbon footprint
More Tackling Coffee’s Carbon Footprint: the 101 video
After discovering coffee grounds are full of flavour, Nate Brown created a better tasting, low-carbon, pre-mixed coffee martini
More Grounds for hope: learning there’s still so much flavour in the coffee we’re throwing out
Why United Baristas has been investing in the future of the coffee industry
More What a year it’s been! And three reasons why 2021 will be much better
Enjoy some cheer with these delicious and easy-to-make coffee cocktails, plus discover a new shake & pour coffee martini
More Cheers! Three festive coffee cocktails for baristas to make at home
It just doesn’t stack up. United Baristas fact checks KeepCup’s claims about their Thermal cup.
More Why KeepCup can’t save the world
Many baristas and coffee professionals found themselves furloughed thanks to the pandemic. Tim Ridley, founder of United Baristas, explains how the industry rallied together in the latest issue of Caffeine.
More How the coffee industry supported baristas during lockdown with Barista Care
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.
More It’s going to be a marathon not a sprint
Reducing coffee’s carbon footprint by tackling the energy consumption of espresso machines
More Hot Stuff: How espresso machines cause global warming
When lockdown lifts to permit coffee shop trade, we should end the customer discount for reusable cups. Here’s why, how we should use the money instead, and why this is the best moment to implement this change.
More Strengthening the coffee industry by eliminating the reusable cup discount
This week a proposal suggesting coffee shops should be amongst the first businesses to be allowed to re-open as lockdown restriction lift was tabled in Parliament. Sam Mason, Association Coffee, explains why it won’t be viable for many coffee shops.
More Opinion – Sam Mason, Association Coffee: Can coffee shops spearhead the lifting of lockdown?
Erin is the social media manager for Caffeine magazine, and a qualified yoga instructor. She explains how it has improved her wellbeing and how she’s now sharing her passion with others.
More Easing into it
United Baristas has instigated an industry-wide project to better support baristas and coffee professionals during the Covid-19 outbreak
More Introducing #BaristaCare to provide you with support during Covid-19
Ashley Dawes is a key account manager at Union, and is discovering new ways to scale new heights
More Rock star
Camilla Morgan is the UK sales manager for Victoria Arduino and spends much of her professional life on the road, and her personal time competing in triathlons
More Being a good sport
Analysis comparing wage, revenue and inflation over the past two years shows the coffee industry is paying its staff more by raising prices
More We’ve made progress on wages, but there’s still much more work to be done
