Ethan Miller

360 Accounting

360 Accounting Services to host café profitability webinar

360 Accounting Services Founder Parikshit Kikla will host a Bean Profitable webinar on 6 December at 3:30pm Australian Eastern Standard Time. In the webinar, Parikshit will discuss how café owners can maximise their profits and manage their payroll during the holiday season.
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La Marzocco

La Marzocco Local to visit Sydney

La Marzocco will host its Local event in Sydney from 6pm on 6 December. The event will include coffee, music, drinks, and snacks with other members of the Australian coffee industry.
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Nespresso

Nespresso to use world’s first responsibly sourced aluminium in coffee capsules

Mining corporation Rio Tinto has announced that Nespresso will become the first company in the world to use responsibly-sourced aluminium to produce its coffee capsules. The two companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together with Nespresso’s capsule manufacturers to fulfil a commitment of sourcing 100 per cent sustainable aluminium by 2020, allowing customers to enjoy their coffee knowing it is packaged in responsibly produced material.
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Coffee science

Proteins with purpose: why milk curdles and how to avoid it

If you regularly make soy coffees for your customers, you have probably noticed that soy milk is often harder to work with than dairy milk – it tends to curdle more in coffee, especially when steaming hot. With some coffees it behaves well, with some it doesn’t.  The delicate protein structures in milk are to blame for the curdling effect.  Proteins are long, folded chains of amino acids. Humans only use about 20 different amino acids, and they can be linked after one another in any order. Most proteins contain hundreds of them.
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Third Time Lucky

Third Time Lucky

Despite winning the Australian Brewers Cup Championship, Third Time Lucky Co-owner Heath Dalziel has kept himself grounded. “Adelaide has a way of humbling you I guess,” he says. “But it’s great to have people come from interstate or overseas who have made a point to check out the café.”
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Bentwood Café

Bentwood Café wins Best Café Design at Eat Drink Design Awards

Bentwood Café in Fitzroy, Melbourne has claimed this year’s award for Best Cafe Design at the 2018 Eat Drink Design Awards, held at Melbourne’s Luminare on 13 November. The Eat Drink Design Awards says the Ritz & Ghougassian-designed Bentwood Café embraces its heritage roots, balancing the tension between its warm red brick interior with modern clean lines and consistent colour palette.
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coffee cup

NSW Government funds coffee cup recycling program

Coffee cup recycler Closed Loop Environmental Solutions has received $115,000 in funding from the New South Wales State Government to expand its Simply Cups recycling program. Simply Cups aims to divert 11 million cups, approximately 110 tonnes, from landfill within a year and turn them into bench seats, kerbing, and car parking stoppers.
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