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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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591: The Problem w/ Focusing On The Numbers vs The...

Keys To The Shop : Equipping Coffee Shop Leaders ·

2026/03/03

Focusing on numbers above guest experience may actually prevent you from achieving the numbers you need to sustain your business long term. Yet still people insist on creating environments in the shop that turn customers into marks to be worked for the sake to extracting as much out of them each interaction as possible so we can see average tickets rise and celebrate record days. In this case, the means to the end truly matters. On today's episode we will be talking about how to recognize this

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08:06

SHIFT BREAK! Why You Need To Be A Content Creator

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2026/03/02

Today we are surrounded by content and it is expected of every customer facing brand to strive to create a brand persona and content to reinforce your values and attract others who share those things. The bi-product of this dearth of content is the underlying sense of anxiety, disconnect, and lack of grounding as it seems the more we produce and consume, the emptier we feel. Today on Shift Break we will talk about the shift needed today in a sea of content if we are truly going to make meaningful

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56:19

Founder Friday! w/ Patti and Jesse Ventura of Lontra...

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2026/02/27

When you build a trust through serving people with sincerity and passion, those same people support and uplift you. In the business of the coffee shop, those kinds of relationships are the life giving force that carries owners through the ups and downs of ownership. Today we get to talk to two of our industry's sweetest people whose cafe is built on this very thing. I am so happy to welcome to the show, Patti and Jesse Ventura of Lontra Coffee! Patti and Jesse Ventura are a husband and wife team

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11:11

SHIFT BREAK! What We Lose When We Don't Listen

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2026/02/26

Feedback is all around us. From the customers, staff, and the business itself, we can only make great decisions for the coffee shop when we practice listening to understand. Trouble is we often avoid listening for fear of what we will hear, or because we falsely think we know what someone thinks or that their opinion cannot be helpful due to who they are or what position they hold. Today on Shift Break we will be talking about what we stand to lose personally and professionally when we do not pursue

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40:31

589: How Coffee Sets the Stage For Conversation w/...

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2026/02/24

Coffee is a connector. I think we all have seen this in our personal lives, our social lives, and in the community we help facilitate through our shops. In the fast paced often stessful world of cafes and the vocation of coffee, we need to take some time, and leave some room for appreciating the real impact a simple cup can have on people. On today's episode we will be talking all about the ways coffee does this and how we can use coffee to advance understanding, exploration, and connection with

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12:51

SHIFT BREAK! Time Management to Beat Overwhelm

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2026/02/19

It's a common belief that there are not enough hours in the day to do the work that we need to get done in order to run a good coffee shop. The truth of the matter is that, more than a lack of time, this feeling is a result of poor time management. In particular, not having appropriately set and strategize priorities. Today on Shift Break, we will be exploring a few ways to think about time management that will help you reduce overwhelm and get control of your schedule and do the right things that

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31:38

588: Prioritizing the Right Things as Your Cafe Grows

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2026/02/17

As a business grows, the relationships in it shift and and evolve. The double edged sword of success and growth in numbers, is a natural pulling away from paying attention to those relationships. IN the end, unless we fight to stay engaged and prioritize the health of our communication and care fro the people that make the cafe possible, it is only a matter of time before things start to go down hill. On today's episode we will be discussing the need for prioritization of the right things in the

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14:38

SHIFT BREAK! Have We Made Coffee (and ourselves)...

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2026/02/12

In our pursuit of optimization, analysis, scientific rigor, and financial success, we may find ourselves wondering, "where is the life in all of this?" Could it be that in dissecting every inch of our business, we have inadvertently killed it? Today on Shift Break we will be talking about the need to remain connected to and act from the heart. Why we might feel a collective burn out and misery in what we are doing, and how, perhaps we can reclaim some joy amidst the frenzy of the shop.

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27:50

587: How To Apply Insights To Your Coffee Bar

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2026/02/10

Coffee shop insights and resources abound! We have innumerable platforms, tools, and ideas that all have a certain amount of value...if only they are adopted and applied well and consistently to your shop On today's episode, we will be talking about the steps that owners and operators should take to go from revelation to realization when they get insights that can help their business. Too many people stop at the "aha" moment and lose the potential for lack of application. Let's fix that. Related

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12:27

SHIFT BREAK: Cafes, We Need To Train Harder

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2026/02/05

The experience of the customer day-in and day-out is often treated as a given. Something that is expected, but not something that is earned. We work to The real focus of our efforts should be on training and resourcing our staff to deliver a consistently excellent product, space, and hospitality experience every time. Are we truly doing that? Today on Shift Break we will be talking about how training not only needs to be harder than the work we are training for, but that training, coaching, and

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43:23

586: How to Dial In Your Cafe

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2026/02/03

When we think about dialing-in, we automatically think about coffee. Changing the grind, the recipe, and other inputs and variables all to obtain an ideal outcome. Your coffee shop is not just about coffee though, and that means that other areas of the cafe need to be dialed in in order for the product of the cafe experience to be great. On today's episode, we will be talking about the three areas of product, people, and place and how you can think about and take action to dial in each one

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01:06:56

585: Founder Friday! w/ Tara and Martyn Knight of...

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2026/01/30

This Founder Friday we feature a couple who has been focused on giving their community excellence and warm hospitality for 13 years! Scaling deeper not wider, Tara and Martyn Knight have steadfastly cultivated something truly beautiful in Southsea Coffee Tara and Martyn Knight are the co-founders of Southsea Coffee in Portsmouth, UK. A community-rooted coffee shop known for speciality coffee, chef-led brunch and warm, inclusive hospitality. Over 13 years, they've focused on building a business that

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10:54

SHIFT BREAK! When Changing Things, Pay Attention to...

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2026/01/30

Changing things in the cafe tends to focus on image and expression. Maybe we upgrade branding, focus our menu, change lighting, furniture etc. But what is even more important in the quest to make positive changes as your grow, it to pay attention to the heart of the operation that supports everything else. Today on Shift Break we will be talking about how to make sure you are growing both the heart and the outward aesthetics of your shop over the years. This is a great framework for those of you

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01:01:27

584: Refining Your Retail w/ Retail Coach Wendy Batten!

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2026/01/27

In coffee shops, we don't just sell coffee. We sell a variety of retail items that are related to, support, and go with coffee and with our brand. But are we doing as good with our retail as we can be? Are leaving money on the shelf or losing opportunities to serve our guests more with truly well considered, sourced, displayed, and sold retail? Today on the show we have retail coach Wendy Batten! Wendy Batten is a retail coach and business strategist for independent small business owners and the

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10:51

SHIFT BREAK! Embracing the Meaning of Money

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2026/01/22

There is far more going on behind the scenes of your numbers than just meeting your metrics. The money that flows in and out of the business is the life blood that represents health, trust, activity, and the growth of the whole. Trouble is we either focus on it alone, or we try not to focus on it at all. The best path is the integrated one. Today on Shift Break we will be talking about how we can think, talk, and act around the subject of money in the cafe in a healthy way, by embracing the meaning

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29:21

583: Unifying Teams Across Multiple Cafes

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2026/01/20

When you have multiple cafes and a distributed staff, getting everyone on the same page in the operations can be very challenging. In fact, it happens to be the number one reason why businesses with 2+ locations start to see a downturn in quality of product, culture, and guest experience. Today on the show we will be answering a question from the KTTS listening audience about how to unify teams across multiple cafes. These tips come from a lot or personal experience doing things well and not so

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14:20

SHIFT BREAK! How to Think About Quality

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2026/01/14

Quality of the coffee, experience, service, and just about anything else in the cafe will always be something an owner and leader focuses on. These days we tend to concentrate our efforts on the acquiring of quality, instead of the creation of it. All the potential those great beans, your wonderful staff, and even our space have, is just potential until you take action and render, create, and realize that potential in the cup, in the moment, in the real life of the business. Today on Shift Break we

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582: Maximizing Existing Opportunities in Your Cafe

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2026/01/13

Making your cafe run better, improving service, increasing profitability, and leveling up quality and value for your guests naturally brings to mind a host of new and different services, products, and strategies that we believe we need to employ. But the truth is that we often only need to look deeper into the existing opportunities we have to find the solutions we seek. Today on the show we will be discussing a few areas of your shop that deserve a deeper look and more focus. Before you assume

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13:48

SHIFT BREAK! Maybe You Are Doing Enough For Your...

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2026/01/08

It seems like the conversation we have around what can be done for staff to create more value, longevity, etc never gets around to a place where you can look at what you are doing and have done and say, you know what, that's pretty good, that is enough. Honestly it feels weird even typing it because we do want to be always maintaining and cultivating value. Today on Shift Break we will be chatting about when it is ok to look at the things you offer to your staff and say it is enough, when to pick

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31:46

581: Lessons From "America's Best Coffee House"!

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2026/01/06

Many years ago in 2012, myself and a small team of people along with Coffee Fest Trade Shows had the pleasure of developing and running a competition called "America's Best Coffee House". The first of it's kind team cafe competition that was, IMO, the most accurate to real cafe work competition ever made. To this day it remains unmatched in showcasing true-to-life barista skills that working baristas regularly engage in. We shipped and assembled on the show floor a fully functional coffee bar

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