What’s it like being a barista in 2026?
Baristas today work to a higher standard than at any point in recent years. Communication, service skills, and adaptability rank just as high as technical precision, and customers...
Search fresh public links, source activity, and ready-to-use post angles for Barista Fire.
Fresh curated links around Barista FIRE are collected here so marketers can spot useful updates and turn timely ideas into posts faster.
Recent items include:
Recent curated links from global sources. Generate one free draft from any story, then use SocialBu to schedule and refine your content calendar.
Baristas today work to a higher standard than at any point in recent years. Communication, service skills, and adaptability rank just as high as technical precision, and customers...
This article is from the coffee website Sprudge at http://sprudge.com. This is the RSS feed version. Laila Ghambari, US Barista Champion and contestant on The Floor.
BlackWhitekafe is Kayu Ara’s new caffeine stop, brewing with its own-roasted beans and whisking up coolers of matcha and hojicha lattes. Japanese-inspired meals will be available n...
DeskPanther, a coffee shop operations platform created and tested by California-based Rad Coffee Co-Founder Jade Valore, launched publicly Sept. 8 with tools for tracking inventory...
Cincinnati worker-owned coffee shop Topia Coffee Cooperative has reemerged as Radical Bean Cooperative following an ownership transition and two-month closure, with new branding an...
Former Barbie marketer Katie Herron is launching Modern Cowgirl Coffee, a Southwestern-inspired specialty coffee brand featuring fair-trade beans roasted in small batches in Las Cr...
Flavors from the high hills of Puerto Rico have arrived at Seattle’s Capitol Hill, where the El Cerro cafe opened in July. A green mountain mural wraps the cafe, interspersed...
A new specialty coffee research and consulting firm called Furthers & Betters is launching with a focus on the people actually buying and drinking the coffee. Co-founded by lon...
This article is from the coffee website Sprudge at http://sprudge.com. This is the RSS feed version. An interview with 2026 Sprudge Twenty inductee Daniel BorrГЎs.
After more than a decade working in cafes, roasting, wholesale, green coffee sales and sourcing, Kris Carlson decided to give herself a distinct new job title: sourcing curator. Ca...
This article is from the coffee website Sprudge at http://sprudge.com. This is the RSS feed version. CafГ© owners who made the switch to Bellwether report saving an estimated $2,00...
A new coffee brand called Heist launched online last month with a lineup focused entirely on decaf and low-caf coffees. Alongside direct-to-consumer sales, Heist is pursuing wholes...
The coffee industry is moving quickly to adopt automation. The cafés investing in their baristas alongside that technology, rather than instead of it, will be the ones that keep th...
Informal cash-pay practices leave wage payments and hours worked outside normal payroll controls. Case in point: A Washington state court ordered Alan Tagle and Tagle & Partner...
The new drink, launching on National Coffee Day, is a modern take on the brand’s Iced Americano, air-whipped to create visual and textural elements.
As teenagers throughout the United States trade summer jobs for full-time school this fall, one 17-year-old in New Mexico is taking her coffee job to a whole new level. Natalia...
Saint Coffee is a Chelsea coffee shop from same people who run the min-chain Fellini.
JD 7Fresh launched its first 24-hour unmanned robot coffee shop in Beijing, setting a Guinness record of 202 cups in an hour, while sparking debate over whether robot cafes can rep...
Few specialty coffee shop owners or baristas set out to sell matcha or customised drinks. Even so, they may help solve one of the sector’s hardest problems: persuading customers to...
In contemporary China, an increasing number of young people are drawn to the countryside, bringing with them new forms of urban life. Cafés, independent shops, bistros and other li...
PUEBLO, CO — Stunned Starbucks workers completely froze up in apparent awestruck wonder as local 39-year-old man Nathan Almes ordered a mysterious beverage called a "black coffee,"...
In downtown Richmond, Virginia, Pi’s Coffee is hoping to become a new constant for coffee drinkers with its new roastery cafe featuring Indian specialty coffee. Founded by Piyush...
Director Mark Mori followed coffee chain workers’ struggle to unionize: ‘These young kids are so inspirational’As the food service industry was pushed on to the frontlines of the C...
Consistency and experimentation are often treated as competing goals, but tools that ensure repeatability free up attention for the tasks that require a barista's palate and judgem...
Use SocialBu to discover ideas, generate post drafts, and schedule them across your social channels.