Make the best coffee in town with our dedicated Café skills courses
Our Flagship Courses are barista skill and knowledge and coffee business core subjects. The main focus of these programs is to introduce students to the coffee industry and café practices by familiarizing them with different brewing methods, exposing them to service and industry standards, and training them to taste and create coffee-based beverages.
BASIC BARISTA TRAINING
CHAPTER 101
Basic Barista Training
Intensive hands-on training on the art and science of coffee preparation. This program will develop the essential knowledge and skills required in the operation of machines, espresso extraction, and milk steaming. Includes survey lecture- demonstrations on the History of Coffee, Elements of Coffee Tasting, different coffee brewing methods, and machine parts and maintenance. Special emphasis will be on cleanliness and discipline in the work area.​
Course Outline
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Basic Barista Knowledge on Seed to Cup Process
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Basic Brewing Concepts
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Basic Espresso Bar Drinks and Maintenance
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Espresso Recipe, Making, and Building
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Cappuccino Recipe, Making, and Building
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Espresso Bar Flow and Service
CHAPTER​ 102
Latte Art Mastery
Advanced course that will enhance the technical skills of the student in espresso extractions and milk steaming techniques with an emphasis on producing latte art.
​Course Outline
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Introduction to Coffee Art and Latte Arts Grading System
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Espresso Variants and Recipes
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Milk Texturing Technique for Making Latte Art
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Cup Handling and Free Pour Techniques
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Basic Free Pour Designs: Heart, Rosetta, and Tulip
CHAPTER 103
Brewing and Sensory
A four-day course that details the basics of coffee tasting and the fundamentals of manual brewing methods. The course surveys tasting and brewing theory and actual practical exercises. It's an ideal course for those who want to improve their coffee tasting skills and take the first step to brewing specialty standard coffee.​
Course Outline
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Coffee Sensory and Coffee Cupping Attributes
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Building Your Coffee Sensory Library
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Cold Brew: Recipes and How-To’s
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Fundamental Brewing Elements and Their Contribution to the Final Cup
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Function and Maintenance of Brewing Equipment: French Press, V60, Aeropress, and Syphon
CAFE
MANAGEMENT
​Building a strong foundation is a pre-requisite for any serious business. Café Management is a 30 day course that details the initial capital, day-to-day operations, and marketing necessary to open and run your dream cafe. From inception to making your brand to operations, this course is ideal for any aspiring or newbie café owner or café manager.​
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Conceptualizing Your Café Business: Vision, Mission, Goals
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Understanding Café Operations Workflow
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Understanding Your Target Market and Finding the Right Location
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Conceptualizing Brand Identity and Marketing
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Creating Your Business Plan
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Building Your Business: Bar, Equipment, Tools
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Inventory Management: How to Handle Supplies
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Hiring and Staff Management
LECTURES
WORKSHOPS
Covering the “backstage” operations in café or coffee house establishment, these lectures/workshops have subjects/topics that are catered for aspiring coffee business owners or managers, as well as coffee enthusiasts.
1) BARISTA SKILLS / MENU DEVELOPMENT
ESPRESSO 101
Learn the fundamentals of espresso making, different types of extractions, and the different recipes of the basic espresso drinks as per Industry standards and get the best tasting beverage that can be applied in a café.
BREWING BASICS
Learn the basics of manual brewing, different brewing methods/equipment and the differences between them, coffee to water ratio, brewing recipes, and grind sizes to get the best flavors in your cup of Joe.
A CURIOUS GUIDE TO COFFEE
Are you lost in all the Coffee Waves? Want to know more about your favorite kuppa without the pretense? A "Curious Guide to Coffee" is a workshop for all coffee beginners and lovers that covers basic coffee facts, building your own home barista bar, and tasting an array of coffees guided by an experienced barista.
A CURIOUS GUIDE TO LATTE ART
Are you curious on how Baristas make those elegant designs in your cup of joe? This course will focus on milk steaming and texturing, proper cup handling and step-by-step procedure on how to pour milk into your espresso and create that latte art.
MENU DEVELOPMENT: COFFEE (HOT&COLD)
Critical in any cafe is your choice of coffee beverages. This will determine your competitive advantage and growth. This class will be focusing on menu selection, recipe creation and cost control.
MENU DEVELOPMENT: MILK TEA
Learn the basics of creating different kinds of Milk Tea flavors perfect for home consumption or starting a business. This course comes with a learning kit.
2) COFFEE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
CAFÉ BUSINESS STARTER KIT
Know the basic requirements in starting a café business ~ looking for the right location, hiring the right people, choosing the needed tools and equipment, budgeting, having the right products, cafe store and kitchen layout and design.
SMALL SCALE CAFÉ BUSINESS OPERATIONS
Learn how to start and operate pop-up, mobile and/or cloud cafés ~ from the minimum logistical requirements, tools and equipment needed, types of coffee drinks to serve, to marketing strategies and conceptualization.
CAFÉ HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Learn how to effectively handle team members of your café through proper recruitment process, employee benefits, contracts, trainings, performance evaluation, and other issues concerning human resources.
CAFÉ MARKETING AND BRANDING
Learn how to effectively market your café through the marketing mix, creating marketing plans, branding your café, and utilizing digital marketing. Know the different café trends as well.
CAFÉ COST CONTROL AND SALES ANALYSIS
Learn how to effectively control the cost of your café by doing break even analysis, menu engineering, interpreting profit and loss statements and analyzing sales performance.
CAFÉ CUSTOMER SERVICE MANAGEMENT
Learn how to have a superb customer service environment for your café. Create "surprise" and "delight" to your customers, understand proper customer service sequence, handling customer feedback and complaints, and other factors for service improvement.
CAFÉ MENU COSTING AND INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
Learn how to properly cost a menu, the different methods and factors in pricing a menu, the importance of having an inventory system, inventory process, and inventory valuation.
​CAFÉ MENU AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Know what kinds of products you need to have a successful café business. The course will include: menu planning, menu development for the target market, types of menu, product sourcing, supplier-buyer relationships, and trends in menu development.
CAFÉ BUSINESS SYSTEM AND OPERATING PROCEDURES
In this short course, you will know about purchasing, deliveries, storage, types of service, pre and post operating procedures, food safety and sanitation, staff scheduling, staff duties and responsibilities and human resource management.