I feel very lucky that I have had quite a lot of experience in recruitment, mainly at Lord’s Cricket Ground where I was for four years before opening Kaffeine, managing the staffing of the Catering department. I would have to assess 1000”s of CV’s every year in the application process to ascertain if the applicant […]
Recruitment is like fishing – An analogy I just can’t stop thinking about Read More »
It is a Dad joke that goes back at least a year, perhaps more. I will say to my daughter at any given time of day “Layla, can I ask you a question?” She replies, “Yes Daddy” I sing, “DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN!??” She looks at me with a ‘you’re so sad Daddy
Frozen the Movie – And how it helped build Eastcastle Street Read More »
Five months. Five months it’s been since I last posted here, after religiously posting nearly every week for the past five years, all of a sudden, it went quiet for five months. Well not quiet really, just very, very, busy indeed. But here we are, Kaffeine on Eastcastle, or K2 to the K1, the little
It’s been a while, but we’re back….(we never left, we’ve just been busy) Read More »
Note: I wrote this back on January 12th, then got a little distracted and so have only just published it. I will wrap up the past four weeks in another, separate blog post. It is a bit hard to believe that it has only been a week and also that this week was the very
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As of today, Monday January 5th, we take possession of our second site for Kaffeine. It has been a long time coming, not just because we have been operating for five and a half years now, but also in the negotiations of the lease (6 months). It is located at 15 Eastcastle Street, W1T 3AY
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Even I was slightly nervous as I dropped off the children in Walthamstow to my wife and caught the train back in into town (East London) to get to Square Mile coffee roasters. Not sure why. I wasn’t competing as one of the top 12 latte art baristas in London for a share of £480 cash money,
London Latte Art Smackdown 2014 – #smackdown14 – Finals and Wrap Up Read More »
Four weeks is a long time in competition, and here we are at the end of it. Yes, on Tuesday the 18th we will have made it to the finals of the London Latte Art Smackdown which will see 12 London baristas competing in front of a packed house for glory and prizes. The final
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We actually ran out of beer even faster than expected as over 30 people came to see Heat Three at Kaffeine on Tuesday night. Luckily we had loads of coffee and also milk on hand for the twelve baristas who were competing. The standards were very, very high and the pressure was on the judges,
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It appears we have made a fairly serious miscalculation. We did not get enough beer in. Two heats down and we have to go off to get some more just to be sure we can get through this coming week and Heat Three. Heat Two was another great success with coffee legends Ben Townsend from
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There is already a waiting list. Forty- eight baristas have entered and we already have a waiting list of about five people. What are we going to do next year? Think we will worry about that when we get to it. In the meantime, we had a fabulous night on Tuesday as about 35 people
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