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Tea 101 For Coffee Shop & Restaurant Owners

Like the elegant fold of your napkins or the complex, nuanced flavor of the espresso you use for your Americanos, the tea you serve to your customers can provide an elevated, compelling and memorable experience. A carefully designed tea program offers your customers more than a beverage -- it offers them a unique encounter with sensation and service that they can only find in your restaurant or cafe.

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Topics: Teas & Chai



How to Choose A Flavoring Syrup Brand

What brands of flavoring syrup do you carry?

We currently offer three different flavoring syrup brands:

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Topics: Sauces & Syrups



Everything You Need to Know About Non- Dairy Milks

Non-dairy milks (also known as plant-based or vegan milks) have exploded in popularity over the past five years. This popularity only continues to grow as Americans explore vegan alternatives to dairy in an attempt to improve their health, lessen their environmental impact, or both.

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Topics: Alternative Milks



Frappe Powder 101: Everything You Should Know About Frappe Powders & Bases

 

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Topics: Blended Drinks



Smoothie Concentrate: Why It’s The Best Choice for Coffee Shop Owners

 

Adding smoothie products to your menu can offer you incredibly high profit margins. But maintaining great profitability on these products comes down to precise stock management and production efficiency. And that’s where smoothie concentrate comes in. Here’s why we recommend smoothie concentrates over the fresh or frozen fruit bases owners sometimes instinctively turn to when adding smoothies to their menu.

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Topics: Blended Drinks



Improve Your Syrup Strategy: Three Tips to Cut Costs

Syrup can be tricky. On one hand, you want to serve customers memorable, delicious drinks that bring them back again and again. On the other hand, you want your drinks to be profitable -- and that means keeping ingredient costs, including syrup, under a reasonable threshold.

While balancing cost and quality is a perennial coffee shop problem, every cafe owner can cut syrup costs by applying precision management techniques to their purchase and use. Wondering how? Here are three practical strategies.

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Topics: Training, Sauces & Syrups



Non-Dairy Milks: Which Ones Are Best With Espresso?

Dairy milk may still rule the latte universe, but a variety of non-dairy milks have been threatening its dominance since soy milk started showing up in cappuccino cups in the ’90s. And with almond and hemp milks — and even macadamia, cashew and coconut — to contend with, baristas can find themselves juggling a variety of steaming techniques as they try not to burn non-dairy milks while getting them hot enough to add to espresso. 

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Topics: Alternative Milks