Over my years being a barista, I was always taught the same thing: this is the equipment, and this is how you dose, tamp, extract, froth, texture, and pour. Now go for gold.
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Mocopan to host latte art smackdown in New South Wales
Mocopan Coffee and Coffee Fix will host a South Coast Latte Art Smackdown in Nowra on 13 September.
Ken Corbin, National Distributor Manager at Mocopan, says the event is about bringing the coffee community together in regional Australia.
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ASCA 2018 Symposium tickets still available
Tickets are still available to attend the 2018 Australian Specialty Coffee Association (ASCA) Symposium on 29 July.
With speakers from leading Australian organisations including Beyondblue and Planet
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How to have healthy communication in the workplace
It’s 9:03am on a beautiful Friday morning in Sydney. It’s a fresh 22°C. The sun is shining and you’ve just started making a three-quarter skinny flat white for one of your loyal customers. You’ve got a smile on your face and your customer is pumped to see you. After a few minutes chatting, they leave for work with their coffee in hand.
From the outside everything seems perfect. But little did that customer know you’d been standing with direct sunlight in your face since 7am. The glare from your shining polished coffee machine is starting to give you a headache, and although you’ve mentioned it to your manager, nothing gets done about it. This has been happening for the last month since summer started because your boss wants to let in as much sunlight as possible. Apparently, “customers love it”. The situation has become so bad you dread coming to work and standing in the sun for six hours until it passes at around 2pm. What would you do?
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Suntory Coffee’s Jared Chapman on celebrating mainstream
One of my favourite things to do on the weekend is to go exploring to find a café I haven’t visited before. While I like visiting specialty coffee cafés for my morning coffee fix, specialty is not my criteria, just good coffee and good service.
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