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Keys To The Shop : Equipping Coffee Shop Leaders

A coffee podcast providing coffee shop owners and leaders, with insights, inspiration, and the tools you need to grow and advance your coffee business or coffee career. We learn from experts both in and outside the coffee industry as they deliver specific, practical, and actionable advice about ownership, optimization, profitability, barista work, employee culture, management, scaling, leadership, personal development, and anything else that will help you achieve success in the coffee shop.
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Jan 28, 2022

Today we get to talk with a pillar and foundational member of the specialty coffee community, Phuong Tran of Lava Java

For 20 years now Phuong Tran has been the owner/operator of the famed coffee shop, Lava Java in Ridgefield Washington. There she discovered a passion for coffee that led her to not only craft the shop into a beacon of hight standards in the beginning of the 3rd wave of coffee, but she also became inspired to begin competing to in barista competitions as a way to improve. She won the U.S. title in 2005 and amidst the notoriety of the win simply continued to run a great cafe and teach coffee to her staff and through the SCA. 

I am lucky to consider Phuong a friend who I have known since back in 2006 or so. I have been inspired by her consistency, focus, values, and the simplicity with which she runs her shop and crafts her life. 

Today we get to explore her story from buying a business, discovering specialty coffee, and taking on new challenges - to competition, teaching, and advice to other owners from her extensive experience. 

I hope you really enjoy this one!

We cover: 

  • Beginning coffee as an owner 
  • Buying an existing shop
  • Learning the industry and taking on challenges
  • Changing and refining things at the shop
  • Establishing standards and finding specialty coffee
  • Motivation for Competition  
  • Winning the U.S. Title
  • Scaling to a 2nd location
  • Choosing simplicity
  • Self care and balance 

 

Links:

www.lava-java.com

 

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