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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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May 20, 2022

Brewing a great cup of coffee is like crafting a career in coffee, it take intentionality, consistency, and a humility that keeps in mind the end goal of all your efforts. These are some of the qualities that make today's guest, Elika Liftee, not just a brewing champion, but an example of professionalism we can all be inspired by. 

Elika is the Director of Education at Onyx Coffee Lab, where he leads a team of educators in training in-house baristas, wholesale partners, and the public. He's been the reigning US Brewers Cup Champion since 2020, finishing 3rd in the World Brewers Cup during that time. 

In this conversation we get t talk with Elika about his career, lessons learned through experimentation, and how he has developed his current approach to teaching, training, and brewing a great cup of coffee.

We cover:

  • Falling in love with coffee
  • Exploring management and finding teaching 
  • The difference between management and teaching
  • Codifying and customizing the training program 
  • Discovering how people learn
  • Experimenting with brewing and his favorite methods
  • Dialing in hospitality + judge/ customer preferences 
  • Discovering and using the Melo drip and “flat” everything 
  • Dialing in coffee across the cafes. 
  • Consistency and what are forgiving and not forgiving coffees?
  • Advice for brewing amazing coffee

Links:

Instagram @elikaliftee

Onyx Coffee Lab

https://www.mk-ceramics.com/pages/mk-dripper

 

Related episodes:

296: Holistic Barista Training w/ David Castillo of Go Get Em Tiger , Los Angeles

339 : What Good Barista Training Produces

188 : Founder Friday w/ Jon Allen of Onyx Coffee Lab

012 : Lauren Airola of Onyx Coffee Lab : A Journey Into Management & Back

 

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