I'll have to look into this Big Train Chai...I actually placed an order for a couple different kinds from Third Street Chai in Colorado so i'll have to let you know how they are! I should be getting them today or tomorrow.
IMHO a machine featuring saturated groups is ultimately what you should be shooting for. Though I wouldn't put up a humongous investment on one initially because there are a LOT of indie-type start up coffee shops coming up right now and the probabi…
So how did the Experts give you an education while you were there? We are looking to do something like that realizing most of our customers know zero about espresso and zero about organic coffee. We are in a drive thru setting and wondered if we sho…
I would expect the market there would be good. A lot of the oil expats I know here in Indonesia have come via the oil business in Nigeria- along with manufacturers such as Cussons, Glaxo etc. I do understanf though that doing business in Nigeria is…
Intelligentsia has so little information on offer about their Sidama right now because it's this years crop and the Ethipian Commodity Exchange has really been wreaking havoc with all of the work a lot of quality oriented roasters have put into trac…
How did your tea tasting go? When we were doing our we called Mighty Leaf and Two Leaves and a Bud and got them to send 2 of each of their teas and we tried them one by one with staff to find our favorites. Those were not loose leaf teas but tea pou…
Sorry Jay, I can be a little inept at times... The reson that I posed this question in the first place is because I feel that most coffee shop owners seem to have a little bit of a jaded view about what they offer. We do have some truly outstand sho…