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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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12:03

SHIFT BREAK! The Entrepreneurial Case For Stopping

Keys To The Shop : Equipping Coffee Shop Leaders ·

2025/06/18

"If you're not growing, your dying", phrases like this tend to drive us pursue a path of growth that often prevents us from slowing down or finding margin in which we can see that something, or even we ourselves, need to stop. Today on Shift Break we are going to be talking about how to see entrepreneurship as not just a one time thing, but as a cyclical practice that helps you enter into needed change to either maintain, add, or take away. Related Episodes: 399: Encore Episode! How to Change

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30:25

545: Breathing Life Into Your Coffee Shop

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2025/06/16

Have you ever walked into a shop and noticed right away, this place is different. The hospitality, the quality, the feel, the energy, and the comfort and confidence you and the staff feel together is a synergy born from purposeful work behind the scenes. It is a work not just to assemble people and equipment under one roof and call it done, but work to tend to the things that animate, sustain, and breathe life into it. In today's episode we are going to be exploring some of the ways you can bring

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14:23

SHIFT BREAK! Tips For Signature Drink Success

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2025/06/11

Signature beverages and seasonal drinks are a huge part of what rounds out the cafe menu and, if done well, can make you stand out for all the right reason. Of course, it stands to reason, that if they are done not so well, you stand out for the wrong reasons. How can you go beyond TikTok trends and the latest viral sensations and create something that is both good for your culture and good for business? Today on Shift Break we are talking about how you can approach creative drink making in a

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01:05:34

544: Love Coffee, Control Caffeine w/ 2013 WBC Champ...

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2025/06/08

Coffee. We love it so much! However, in spite of our love for coffee, we have all been burned by taking in just a little too much caffeine as we sip, cup, and enjoy. As technology and methods around decaf coffee have improved and evolved, so too has the demand for having more control over the stimulating effects of the beverage. This is where Caffeine Control Coffee comes in to educate us on caffeine and provide options for people who want to love coffee but stave off the less desirable impacts of

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11:49

SHIFT BREAK! Don't Rush Your Customers

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2025/06/04

In the busy cafe we tend to want to power through the work and in the process we rush the customer. The average cafe guest can feel as though they are simply being handled or herded instead of welcomed and served. Today on Shift Break we are talking about how and why we need to fight against the urge to rush the customer and what it looks like to help them truly connect with and experience our unique offerings and hospitality. Related episodes: 340 : Encore Episode of “10 Reasons to Love the

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30:26

543: A Philosophy On Employee Turn-over

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2025/06/02

Everybody leaves. That is the constant of working in coffee shops. How they leave and how you respond to their absence for their good, the team that remains and for your business is a question of how much intentionality you bring to the inevitable departure of staff. Today we are going to explain how we can view turn-over and use it to better our leadership, to streamline and make more effective operations, and to improve our hiring practices in the future. INTERESTED IN 1:1 CONSULTING AND

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01:06:34

542: Founder Friday! w/ Nori and Tin Burmudez of...

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2025/05/30

It's Founder Friday! And this one is quite special. Nori and Tin Burmudez founded Corridor Flow in the Fall of 2019 with community and relationship as their central mission. I was lucky enough to work with them in their beginning stages and for the last almost six years, their commitment to their vision have shown itself in their deeply rooted and instantly resonant presence in their Lomita community. Nori comes from the world of healthcare and nursing, and Tin from the world of engineering and

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42:37

RoR #36: Community and Continual Learning w/ Alex...

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2025/05/27

Great things happen when we plug into community and open ourselves up to the learning process. This is especially true when you begin your own business and apply those things you have learned from your experiences. It opens up entirely new levels. Today on this 36th episode of Rate of Rise, brought to you by our friends at Mill City Roasters, we are talking with Alex Jacob of Vital Coffee Roasters. Alex Jacob is the founder of Vital Coffee Roasters, Head Roaster for Ascension Coffee Roasters, and

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10:47

SHIFT BREAK! No Training By Committee

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2025/05/26

Training employees remains one of the central tasks of cafe ownership and management. Rather than training from a central standard and source that has been thoughtfully crafted to onboard and develop the skills of the barista to meet specific standards, there is a temptation to want to lean on training by osmosis or by committee where the new hire is simply assigned a shift schedule and told they will learn from the other experienced employees. What you end up with is a lot of mixed messages,

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25:30

541: Repetition, Reminders, and Guidance

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2025/05/26

If you are like a lot of owners or managers you might find the idea of reminding and repeating yourself to be at the top of the "most annoying things I should not have to do" list. To a degree you are right. But only partly. It really depends on how those tools are used and how you approach your own role in the cafe Today we are going to explore how the tools of repetition and reminders are actually forms of guidance that, in their right place, can bring about the kind of change and excellence you

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10:47

SHIFT BREAK! Why The Best Hospitality Starts With The...

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2025/05/22

We talk about how we want to provide an experience for the guest, to connect with them, to make a positive impact. The way to get there though is through embracing what may seem like the opposite of what we want, the transactional. Gasp! Today on Shift Break we will be talking about why the transaction between you and the customer, the ordinary exchange of money for goods, is the gateway and foundation to building a truly remarkable business and hospitality experience! Related episodes: In Praise

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32:03

540: The Good and Bad of Job Descriptions

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2025/05/19

On average, when I look into a cafe's operational materials and systems, one of the main things that is either not developed well, developed but not updated, or just not there at all, are job descriptions. For many coffee businesses, there is a default to describing their growth and thus operation as "organic" and as a result, while some progress is made, they can tend to find themselves hitting a wall where everyone feels a constant sense of uncertainty that impact the business. Today we will be

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11:36

SHIFT BREAK! Vendor Hospitality

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2025/05/14

Who we are when nobody s looking is really who we are. There are variations of this phrase and for most it is convicting and motivates us to increase the integrity of how we move in life and work. In the cafe, we talk a lot about hospitality regarding guests and more recently we have talked about hospitality for the staff. But what about the people that support and are vested in your businesses through services and products? Today on Shift Break we will be talking about the importance of extending

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43:32

539: Helping Regular People Enjoy Coffee w/ Matthew...

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2025/05/12

"Customers are already dialed in." This is one of my favorite quotes from the interview I had with today's guest. The industry has largely been focused on educating customers about coffee but not very good about educating themselves about the customer, and even less concerned about meeting people where they are or even celebrating their tastes. How can we approach the regular people that make up most of our customer base in a way that edifies instead of discourages? That's what Matthew Bryce of

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SHIFT BREAK! Explaining the Manager's Landscape | A...

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2025/05/07

Being a manager in a coffee shop is not just about extra administrative tasks, its about leading and guiding people well through the work of the cafe. Many managers in bars around the world are kept buried in tasks and don't have a clear view of the landscape in front of them. This leads to avoiding essential conversations and a lack of growth in both the manager and the staff. Today on Shift Break we will be talking about a great tool developed by Bruce Tulgan in his book "It's OK to be the Boss"

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33:43

538: The Most Important Things to Focus In The First...

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2025/05/02

Coffee shops are dynamic places that require a ton of focus on what seems like an endless sea of urgent things. Some are actually more important than others and learning what they are and training yourself and your staff to focus on and cultivate them from the start can help set the next years of your businesses life up for healthy operation and growth. Today we are going to explore what areas you need to be focused on int he first year in order to make best use of your time. Areas that, if given

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10:42

SHIFT BREAK! Small Wins Build Trust

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2025/05/01

Once we get a little bit of authority as a trainer, manager, or leader in the coffee shop we tend to dream about and focus on all the things we want to change. Unfortunately the projects that we know will improve things often do not get the reception we want from the boss and we feel dejected and frustrated. Today on Shift Break we will be talking about the need to have patience and to prioritize the right work and projects in order to gain trust so the good things you want to do in the future are

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01:08:35

SPECIAL! Interviews from Coffee Fest NYC 2025:...

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2025/04/29

We are back with anew round of show floor interviews from Coffee Fest! This time we were in NYC at the Keys to the Shop booth and got four wonderful presenters and experts to chat about training, entrepreneurship, and trademarking law! First up to talk about effective barista training strategies we have our friend Antoine Franklin! Antoine Franklin (better known as “Twizz”) born and raised in Cleveland, OH has 19 years of experience working in the coffee industry. Having many different job titles

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49:07

537: Success as a Coffee Tech : Training and...

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2025/04/25

Maintaining the functionality of your equipment is one of the main tasks involved in running a shop. You yourself may wan to be trained in machine tech, you may want to hire a teach or tech company to service your cafe's equipment, or you might want to raise up an internal technician. Today on the show we are goping to talk about training technicians and how to coffee techs and owners alike should approach the relationship that helps keeping things working the way they should. To do this I am

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45:55

RoR #34: The Core 7 Practices Disciplines for a...

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2025/04/24

There are an incredible number of tasks associated with running a coffee roastery. The busy work of keeping things going often gets in the way of working on the main areas that will actually move the needle and build a successful operation. Today's guest comes to us with a lot of experience working in roasteries and consulting operators in the areas that he has identified as "The Core 7" essential areas of roastery operations. I fact, he has written a whol book about it! Today on this 34th

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