You probably cannot get more of an informed point of view than Jason Atherton at the moment, and in an interview in the Caterer magazine last week, they asked him about how he manages to maintain his standards with all the openings of restaurants he has had recently. One of the answers was about the […]
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Are you considering opening your own cafe? Do you know anything about the ‘licences to trade’ in the UK and the restrictions these place on a business. Have you ever wondered about the difference between a cafe and a shop or a restaurant or a pub or a showroom? Basically it is this, or at
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An insight into a day as a barista at Kaffeine Writing about a day in the life of a barista at Kaffeine is really quite challenging because, luckily, no two days are the same and anything can change in ways you cannot predict. But here is a very good overview. I wake at 5:30 am
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Oh how I wish I could eat out all the time. Mrs K treated me last week to three fabulous meals, in order to celebrate one’s birthday you see. We went to St John Hotel in the morning for breakfast where I had grilled kippers and a pot of Rare Tea Company Earl Grey, then off to Barrafina for
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No, sorry, it’s not a joke. I tell really bad jokes, ask the staff. Dad jokes. Anyway, I was thinking about this the other day, because we had a lot of coffee people in over the last weekend with the London Coffee Festival, and we had one particular Spanish family in, who were on holiday
A coffee enthusiast, a regular and a tourist walk into a cafe – An Explanation Read More »
Those who follow twitter or live/work locally may know that last Friday, we went through quite a day trying to get three phase power installed into the shop. For those who are unaware, a regular domestic or commercial premises will have single phase (or 100 amps) of power supplied by EDF (now London power networks
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