Valor Coffee Podcast

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Q&A: Owner Disagreements, Drive-Thru Specialty Coffee, & Slushie Machines – 02/07/2024 Feb 09, 2024

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Sign Up for Alerts About Our Community (coming soon) – Courses, Exclusive Videos, PDFs, Spreadsheets and more: https://mailchi.mp/018d9c38a953/valorcafecommunity Thanks for listening, following/subscribing, giving us a good review, and sharing with your friends on social media. It goes a long way! We had a whole dang episode planned out, but we had so many solid questions that we decided to pivot.! We cover a few really awesome topics like: how do you know who to go into business with? What...

Are Coffee Shops Profitable? A Look at the Numbers - 01/31/2024 Feb 02, 2024

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DOWNLOAD THE CAFE VIABILITY SPREADSHEET: https://mailchi.mp/valor/viability-spreadsheet Sign Up for Alerts About Our Community (coming soon) – Courses, Exclusive Videos, PDFs, Spreadsheets and more: https://mailchi.mp/018d9c38a953/valorcafecommunity Thanks for listening, following/subscribing, giving us a good review, and sharing with your friends on social media. It goes a long way! We're live just 42 minutes from Six Flags Over Georgia to answer a very common question: are coffee shops p...

Small Business, Big Impact: How Coffee Shops Shape Community – 01/25/2024 Jan 26, 2024

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Sign Up for Alerts About Our Community (coming soon) – Courses, Exclusive Videos, PDFs, Spreadsheets and more: https://mailchi.mp/018d9c38a953/valorcafecommunity Thanks for listening, following/subscribing, giving us a good review, and sharing with your friends on social media. It goes a long way! We welcome Valor Alpharetta's Head Coach, Lillabea Goins, back for her third round on the podcast to discuss all sorts of fun with Ethan, including the joys of feedback and failure, the power of c...

One Year of Owning a Coffee Shop w/ J.P. McKenzie of Meadowlark – 01/17/2024 Jan 18, 2024

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Sign Up for Alerts About Our Community (coming soon) – Courses, Exclusive Videos, PDFs, Spreadsheets and more: https://mailchi.mp/018d9c38a953/valorcafecommunity Thanks for listening, following/subscribing, giving us a good review, and sharing with your friends on social media. It goes a long way! JP is a dear friend and owner of Meadowlark, a beautiful sub-500 square foot cafe in Gainesville, GA. This is JP's second time on the progrum, and it was a joy to talk about all sorts of stuff, ma...

Predicting Trends in the Coffee Industry in 2024 – 01/10/2024 Jan 11, 2024

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Sign Up for Alerts About Our Community (coming soon) – Courses, Exclusive Videos, PDFs, Spreadsheets and more: https://mailchi.mp/018d9c38a953/valorcafecommunity Thanks for listening, following/subscribing, giving us a good review, and sharing with your friends on social media. It goes a long way! We gather around the table and talk about where we think the industry might be heading this year, including commercialized bean spritzing, low caff varietals and more. We also taste a yum coffee f...

Opening a Coffee Shop With No Barista Experience – 01/03/2024 Jan 04, 2024

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Sign Up for Alerts About Our Community (coming soon) – Courses, Exclusive Videos, PDFs, Spreadsheets and more: https://mailchi.mp/018d9c38a953/valorcafecommunity Thanks for listening, following/subscribing, giving us a good review, and sharing with your friends on social media. It goes a long way! We're often contacted by folks asking us our suggested first steps in their journey towards opening a coffee shop? Our first question... "Have you ever worked in coffee before?" Ethan and Riley di...

2023 in Review: Our Biggest Year Ever – 12/27/2023 Dec 28, 2023

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Sign Up for Alerts About Our Community (coming soon) – Courses, Exclusive Videos, PDFs, Spreadsheets and more: https://mailchi.mp/018d9c38a953/valorcafecommunity Thanks for listening, following/subscribing, giving us a good review, and sharing with your friends on social media. It goes a long way! David LaMont has been in the coffee industry in Atlanta/the Southeast for the past 20 years, filling roles from barista, to wholesale sales, and now as the Southeast Sales Manager of La Marzocco. ...

David LaMont, La Marzocco – 12/20/2023 Dec 21, 2023

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Sign Up for Alerts About Our Community (coming soon) – Courses, Exclusive Videos, PDFs, Spreadsheets and more: https://mailchi.mp/018d9c38a953/valorcafecommunity Thanks for listening, following/subscribing, giving us a good review, and sharing with your friends on social media. It goes a long way! David LaMont has been in the coffee industry in Atlanta/the Southeast for the past 20 years, filling roles from barista, to wholesale sales, and now as the Southeast Sales Manager of La Marzocco. ...

Pour Overs Are DEAD. Long Live Coffee Shots! – 12/12/2023 Dec 14, 2023

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Sign Up for Alerts About Our Community (coming soon) – Courses, Exclusive Videos, PDFs, Spreadsheets and more: https://mailchi.mp/018d9c38a953/valorcafecommunity Thanks for listening, following/subscribing, giving us a good review, and sharing with your friends on social media. It goes a long way! We've always struggled with a particular dilemma: we love the clarity and flavor we can achieve by brewing pour overs, but doing so behind a busy coffee bar is wildly inefficient and inconsistent....

Skills You Should Learn as an Entrepreneur, God Shots, Branding Single Origins – 12/06/2023 Dec 07, 2023

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Sign Up for Alerts About Our Community (coming soon) – Courses, Exclusive Videos, PDFs, Spreadsheets and more: https://mailchi.mp/018d9c38a953/valorcafecommunity Thanks for listening, following/subscribing, giving us a good review, and sharing with your friends on social media. It goes a long way! This was one of those episodes where we sat down with a topic, but the conversation led us in a different direction that produced some FIRE radio. We talk about some of the skills we've developed ...

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