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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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Mar 28, 2024

The wonder and beauty of coffee is a catalyst for countless career coffee professionals and customers alike. The flavors and creation of special moments that draws us in, satisfy some sense of adventure as well as nurtures a need for belonging. On the business side of coffee it can be very easy for those elements to be lost and replaced with conformity, safety, and a sole focus on numbers that sucks the life out of what was once a joyous thing. 

For today's guest, reanimating the industry with creativity, passion, and the joy of telling stories through drinks has been a 7 year long pursuit that has shifted the minds and hearts of thousands.

Ryan is the Founder and Creative Director of Discourse Coffee, one of the world's most innovative coffee shops, and Agency Cocktail Lounge, the nation's first fully hybrid cocktail bar, offering each cocktail both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. He is also the best-selling author of “The New Art of Coffee: From Morning Cup to Caffeine Cocktail” (Rizzoli, 2023), resident mixologist at Fox 6 News, and Creator / Co-Host of the podcast “Hot Coffee for the Creative Soul”. 
 
Ryan has served as a brand ambassador for Espro, Barfly, Apothekary, and Free Spirts, and has hosted workshops on drink-making and creative thinking throughout the US, France, and Canada. His drinks have been enjoyed coast to coast, twice featured on the Emmy nominated PBS show “Wisconsin Foodie”, and covered in print in Forbes, Food & Wine, Barista Magazine, Punch Mag, Plate Magazine, Fresh Cup, Daily Coffee News, and many others.

In today's episode we are going to talk all about the spark that lit the flame of Ryan's businesses and approach to coffee, the need for baristas to express their craft using coffee, how this sometimes crazy, always fun business works, and what YOU can do to create menu magic for your staff and customers. 

 

Links:

www.discourse.coffee

@discoursecoffeemke

@ryan.castelaz

"The New Art of Coffee" book

 

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