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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
Latest news from United Baristas.
This year, you’ll need a pay rise. With inflation nearing 10%, here's important info for coffee people and businesses.
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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Boost productivity
How Baristas Can Get Paid More
Baristas and managers should work together to make workflows more efficient.
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.
Some serves are more profitable than others
Not all coffee is equal
Here's how to start an analysis on your current product range and proposition.
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Predictions on the Near-Future Price of Coffee
Here’s why specialty coffee cup prices are going to rise – and why you should act now.
Cheap, Fast & High Quality
Insights from the Iron Triangle
Coffee shops can only viably pick two. Commercial pain awaits those attempting to deliver all three.
The human touch is expensive
The True Cost of Espresso
Just what are your customers paying for, and what does it cost you? An egregious shortcoming was made by shops who told customers that the cup price of specialty coffee was set because espresso machines and green coffee are expensive. Many customers have come to believe that this is the situation – and now shop…
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.