Serving Coffee - Attitude
Your attitude in the way you serve coffee is almost as important as the quality of your coffee!
Your passion for coffee, your enthusiasm for presenting your coffee, and your interpersonal skills, are all key to a happy customer that will want to return.
As a barista, your personal feelings and attitudes should not be brought into the cafe. While that customer is in front of you - and indeed stays in your cafe, their feelings are more important.
You need to be a people person. You're not just making a drink, you need to be personal but professional - keeping up with new customers and orders etc.
Your attitude in the way you serve coffee is almost as important as the quality of your coffee!
Your passion for coffee, your enthusiasm for presenting your coffee, and your interpersonal skills, are all key to a happy customer that will want to return.
As a barista, your personal feelings and attitudes should not be brought into the café. While that customer is in front of you - and indeed stays in your café, their feelings are more important.
You need to be a people person. You're not just making a drink, you need to be personal but professional - keeping up with new customers and orders etc. Whilst your job is to make drinks, your approach to that task will mean the difference between each customer returning soon. But that will happen only if their experience is a good and enjoyable one.
Growing Coffee - Geography
Where is coffee grown?
The main areas of the world that successfully grown Arabica beans are Latin America, East Africa, Arabia & Asia. Arabica plantations need a cool subtropical climate, hence these locations. A higher altitude is needed here.
The Robustra Beans however, can be grown at lower elevations, and are therefore grown in Brazil, Central and Western Africa, and in Southeast Asia, in the main.
Geogramical considerations include altitude, tempoarature (year round), UV radiation, rainfall, and of course, soil type.
As with wine regions, the area in which coffee is grown dramatially affects the final product that we can sample thoughout the world.
Soffee these days appears to have become an irristable beverage! So much so that it has now overtaken tea as THE DRINK of the UK!
In October 2021, Statistica reported that coffee had drawn level with tea as the favourite beverage in the UK - well known as a nation of tea drinkers!
