Coffee Training at Peaberry’s Gourmet Coffee – October 2012

Regular customers at Doubletake Café often say, “You know. When my coffee comes out to me, I know exactly who is working that day.”

This may seem like a simple observation, but to a café manager who loses sleep worrying about the quality of coffee being served at the café, it is very significant. It says a great deal about the consistency of product being served each day and it reinforces the pivotal role of the barista in the success of any café.  After all, the barista and customer clearly share a strong connection in the coffee experience!

Peaberry s recently tailored a coffee training course for the barista staff at Doubletake Cafe, which overlooks beautiful Lake Macquarie in Toronto.  

The larger than usual group spilled into Peaberrys’ new, state of the art training facility at Islington, alongside their impressive new Roastery and Café.  For a little over two hours, Joe imparted his massive knowledge of coffee to the group, in a session that was fun and informal yet hugely informative also.

It is one thing to be able to make a coffee, but another to understand what it takes to make a truly awesome cup of coffee. The training therefore ensured that all of our baristas understand and appreciate the most simple, as well as the more technical aspects of coffee preparation. The course highlighted the importance of cleanliness, maintaining the correct grind settings and correct care of the beans. There was also a hands-on session where our baristas could adjust the grind and craft the perfect piccolo latte.

Doubletake Cafe, just as much as Peaberry’s Coffee, strive to create an awesome coffee experience for our loyal clientele. Equipped with their new understanding of how to consistently provide a high quality coffee product, our barista’s are now much more interested and enthused about creating a great cup, each and every time a coffee is poured.

Training with Peaberry’s will now become a regular event for baristas at Doubletake Cafe. The world of coffee is constantly evolving and changing. There is always something new to learn and every training session will lead to a better cup for our customers.  

You can now also be sure that our staff will be happily buzzing when you come into the café, because they will all have had several piccolo lattes of a morning.  Joe, I think you’ve created a bunch of monsters with that one!

Thanks to Joe and Peaberry’s Coffee for a great training session.