In our last article, we learned 5 Effective Tips On Leveraging Yelp To Your Advantage. However, while spending time to develop and monitor your Yelp’s business account is a necessary chore for any owner, there are strategies every CoffeeShopr… [Read More…]

How To Run A Coffee Shop 03: Top 5 Yelp Do’s And Don’ts For A Coffee Shop Owner
Hope you really enjoyed reading our last guide on clever coffee shop financing How To Crowdfund A Coffee Shop Business. Today we’re super excited to start off with a topic we’ve never covered before – Yelp! Yelp is an… [Read More…]

CoffeeShopr Heroes: JavaVino in Atlanta, GA – The True “Seed To Cup”
JavaVino is a real example of the true “seed to cup” experience. In fact, it is pretty much as “seed to cup” as it gets. The business’ owners get their coffee directly from their family farm in Nicaragua. It… [Read More…]

How To Start A Coffee Shop 05: Crowdfunding Your Coffee Shop Business
After you learned how to be a better business owner by reading about everyone’s experience on topics like First Step For Your Coffee Business and What I Wish I’d Known Before Starting My Coffee Business, we are sure you… [Read More…]

CoffeeShoprs Travel: Visiting A Coffee Farm In Rwanda By Jono Moehlig
Editor’s Note: This week, we interrupt our usual roundup series with a special guest post from our great friend Jono Moehlig. Jono has worked at Land of a Thousand Hills for almost 3 years in which he has grown… [Read More…]

How To Run A Coffee Shop 02: What’s Quality Coffee To You?
In our industry, delivering quality coffee in every cup is a must if you want to be successful. So, we asked some coffee shops and roasters: What’s quality coffee to you? How do you find quality coffee beans? *… [Read More…]

Cómo abrir una cafetería. Parte 01: «Lo que me hubiera gustado saber antes de abrir mi cafetería.»
Piensa en el entusiasmo y emoción inicial que sentiste justo antes de abrir tu cafetería. ¿Qué te dirías a ti mismo ahora, muchos meses o años después? Quisimos averiguarlo y les preguntamos a los propietarios de cafeterías y tostadurías… [Read More…]

How To Start A Coffee Shop 04: The Art Of Naming A Coffee Business
A few weeks ago we interviewed Heddy Kuhl from JavaVino for one of our most popular articles “What coffee shop and roastery owners wish they’d known before starting their coffee business”. Among other things, Heddy pointed to the importance of thinking hard… [Read More…]

How To Start A Coffee Shop 03: Choosing Location For Your Coffee Shop Business
We continue talking to owners and managers of the best coffee shops and roasters from across the country about their experiences and business insights on different topics in the coffee industry. Today’s topic: “Is location really that important for a coffee business… [Read More…]

How To Start A Coffee Shop 02: First Step For Your Coffee Business
In our weekly column “CoffeeShoprs Answer…”, owners and managers of some of the finest coffee shops, cafes, roasters and other coffee businesses from across the country share real life experiences and business insights on different topics. Today’s topic is “What was… [Read More…]

CoffeeShopr Heroes: Lestat’s Coffee House in San Diego, CA
Both Lestat’s Coffee House and Lestat’s on Park are open 24 hours. That’s pretty unique in independent coffee scene, since most of the time we tend to think of coffee being a morning, midday thing. Lestat’s Coffee house also… [Read More…]

How To Run A Coffee Shop 01: What Makes a Coffee Shop Successful?
In our weekly column “CoffeeShoprs Answer…”, owners and managers of some of the finest coffee shops and roasteries from across the country share real life experiences and business insights on different topics. Today’s topic is “What makes a coffee shop successful?”… [Read More…]

How To Start A Coffee Shop 01: “What I Wish I’d Known Before Starting My Coffee Business”
Think back to the enthusiasm and excitement you felt just before launching your coffee business. What would you say to yourself now, many months or years later? We wanted to find out, and we asked coffee shop and roastery owners… [Read More…]

CoffeeShopr Heroes: Mission Brew Coffee in San Diego, CA
Welcome Mission Brew Coffee (MBC) – a successful independent shop in San Diego. MBC is run by three co-founders, brothers Jeremy and Josh Moffit, and their business partner Kevin Wise. They started in 2014 to deliver quality coffee in… [Read More…]