118 episodes

A podcast and video show hosted by seasoned coffee pros and Valor Coffee founders Ethan Rivers, Ross Walters and Riley Westbrook where we discuss coffee, starting and running a business, and the specialty coffee industry.

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A podcast and video show hosted by seasoned coffee pros and Valor Coffee founders Ethan Rivers, Ross Walters and Riley Westbrook where we discuss coffee, starting and running a business, and the specialty coffee industry.

    Tips to Prevent Employee Turnover at Your Coffee Shop – 05/15/2024

    Tips to Prevent Employee Turnover at Your Coffee Shop – 05/15/2024

    Sign Up for Alerts About Our Community (coming soon) – Courses, Exclusive Videos, PDFs, Spreadsheets and more: https://mailchi.mp/018d9c38a953/valorcafecommunityThanks for listening, following/subscribing, giving us a good review, and sharing with your friends on social media. It goes a long way!This episode is a continuation of our previous episodes of the epidemic of high turnover within the coffee industry. We dive into a few practical ways coffee shops can pivot to make their establishmen...

    • 1 hr 3 min
    Why Coffee Shops Have Terrible Turnover – 05/08/2024

    Why Coffee Shops Have Terrible Turnover – 05/08/2024

    Sign Up for Alerts About Our Community (coming soon) – Courses, Exclusive Videos, PDFs, Spreadsheets and more: https://mailchi.mp/018d9c38a953/valorcafecommunityThanks for listening, following/subscribing, giving us a good review, and sharing with your friends on social media. It goes a long way!The coffee industry is one of notoriously heavy turnover, something we've experienced at our business and heard from many other cafe owners. On this specific progrum, we dive in to the reasons this is...

    • 1 hr 6 min
    Q&A: Barista vs Roasting Job + Should Baristas Have to Work Weekends? – 05/01/2024

    Q&A: Barista vs Roasting Job + Should Baristas Have to Work Weekends? – 05/01/2024

    Sign Up for Alerts About Our Community (coming soon) – Courses, Exclusive Videos, PDFs, Spreadsheets and more: https://mailchi.mp/018d9c38a953/valorcafecommunityThanks for listening, following/subscribing, giving us a good review, and sharing with your friends on social media. It goes a long way!This week we field a few questions, including helping one listener choose between stepping forward as a barista or making a move to roasting operations and answering another listener's question about ...

    • 1 hr 8 min
    SCA EXPO 2024 Chicago Recap – 04/24/2024

    SCA EXPO 2024 Chicago Recap – 04/24/2024

    Sign Up for Alerts About Our Community (coming soon) – Courses, Exclusive Videos, PDFs, Spreadsheets and more: https://mailchi.mp/018d9c38a953/valorcafecommunityThanks for listening, following/subscribing, giving us a good review, and sharing with your friends on social media. It goes a long way!Wait... 100 Episodes?! Who knew this little podcast would make it this far? This week we share stories from our first SCA Expo experience, drink the most expensive coffee we've ever purchased, and cho...

    • 1 hr 12 min
    Keys to the Shop x Valor: How to Raise Barista Wages – 04/13/2024

    Keys to the Shop x Valor: How to Raise Barista Wages – 04/13/2024

    Sign Up for Alerts About Our Community (coming soon) – Courses, Exclusive Videos, PDFs, Spreadsheets and more: https://mailchi.mp/018d9c38a953/valorcafecommunityThanks for listening, following/subscribing, giving us a good review, and sharing with your friends on social media. It goes a long way!We were stoked to have the opportunity to take a break from the action at SCA Expo 2024 to sit down with a true veteran of the coffee industry, Chris Deferio. Chris has 20+ years of experience in spec...

    • 1 hr 16 min
    Making It Cool to Care at Your Coffee Shop – 04/10/2024

    Making It Cool to Care at Your Coffee Shop – 04/10/2024

    Sign Up for Alerts About Our Community (coming soon) – Courses, Exclusive Videos, PDFs, Spreadsheets and more: https://mailchi.mp/018d9c38a953/valorcafecommunityThanks for listening, following/subscribing, giving us a good review, and sharing with your friends on social media. It goes a long way!This week we're in a different room because of roast shifting, but we still dish out some straight fire. Ethan and Ross chat about building a culture that thinks it's cool to give a crap and how that ...

    • 1 hr 4 min

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