Quite a long while ago, one of our former superstar lead baristas came to me with the idea of running a guest espresso on the bar. This, they said, would be perfect for our baristas/staff to try different coffees and work with them, great for our customers to be able to try these coffees from other parts of the world and amazing for the reputation of the business.
Great idea, super idea, love it, only problem is, we have very limited space and already have two grinders on the bar, one for Square Mile Red Brick and one for Square Mile decaf. Now the very kind and accommodating people at Square Mile said ‘yes, of course you can have another coffee on the bar’ and so off we went.
So we decided to take off the decaf on the weekends and offer this guest espresso on weekends only.