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How to Make Consistently Good Coffee in a Cafe

Inconsistency is a bad thing for cafés. Yes, you need good drinks. Yes, you need cool decor and good marketing. But your products also need to be consistent. Why? Because consistency correlates dir...

Comfort Drinking

The rise in demand for nostalgic flavours during the pandemic (see our post on ‘Flavour Trends in Uncertain Times’) has inspired the lovely people at Sweetbird to conjure up a range of sweet shop i...

Coffee Shop Marketing: How to Build Your Brand

1. Build A Marketing Strategy Before You Open Before opening to the public, make sure you have your marketing strategy in place. This means knowing the answers to the following questions: who will ...

How to make a Lotus Biscoff Iced Latte

Last year the Dalgona coffee was the iced coffee drink that took TikTok by storm.  The Dalgona coffee is prepared by taking equal parts of instant coffee, sugar and hot water whipped in a creamy, c...

Coffee Shop Marketing: The Importance of Understanding Your Customers

Customers: they are the driving force behind your business. But how well do you know them? Do you understand why they walk through your door? And, perhaps more importantly, do you know how to reach...

What’s The Best Milk For Latte Art and Coffee Foam?

A beautiful foam on the top of a flawless cappuccino doesn’t happen by accident, and neither does lovely latte art. Great latte art and coffee foam exist because of the barista’s skill, and the qua...

We're Hiring! Espresso Machine Engineer

We're looking for an espresso machine engineer to join our engineering team.  Read on if you'd like to join a our friendly team based at our head office in South Wales: Job Description Verde Coffee...

The COVID-19 Innovations the Hospitality Industry Wants to Keep

Contactless payments, the Eat Out to Help Out scheme and online booking systems are the pandemic industry innovations the hospitality sector wants to keep going forward, according to research from ...

5 Reasons Cafés Are Perfect Places to Do Work

As coffee shops can once again welcome customers many home workers will be glad to break up the working day with a visit to their local coffee shop. The humdrum of people, the coffee grinder at wor...

Upgrade Your WFH Life

The pandemic has meant many of us have become accustomed to the new normal of home working, with many companies now opting to continue with remote working even after the pandemic is over.  So, if y...