When I started a café consultancy company with my partners, my vision was to make a name in the industry that I was interested in. I didn’t quite understand the essence of building a business or creating unique value for people. Growing up, I wasn’t
I had 3 partners when we set up a café consultancy company in in 2015. After a celebration lunch, I felt sick. I was drowned in emptiness and anxiety – what have I done with my life? I remembered walking up a hill and gazing
When I joined a start-up coffee chain in 2013, I entered a new world that was fundamentally different from the corporate environment I came from. Despite casual dress code, my on-boarding experience started with travelling around town with my boss to retail outlets, warehouse and
‘I’m going home, home.’ This is a line in ‘La La Land’ when Emma Stone felt humiliated after a poor received play and decided to retreat back to her parents’ home. I felt it. That was my life too. Back home, I told family and
I happily signed up for a speaking gig a couple months ago with Mindvalley, thinking it could be fun to share about coffee. Who cares that I had no experience in public speaking, I had two months to prepare for it. This was what I
One and a half months into being a (over-rated) ‘startup founder’, a friend asked me this question knowing that my team was making coffee in an event until 4 am in the morning. It was a weekend. He started to project our total revenue, profit
Coffee is a happiness business. It’s a legalised drug that stimulate good mood (at least for me). Things get a little complicated in the era of third wave coffee, when we coffee people are obsessed with single origin, COE micro lot, and original flavour of
A lot of people who enjoy coffee aspire to become a café owner one day to serve the coffee they love. Passion can definitely fuel your drive to run a café, but running a sustainable café business is a different ball game altogether. Joshua from
Sometimes I think I am happy to stay in coffee industry forever. Coffee makes things okay even on the shittiest days; and people that surround me makes me feel homey all the time. The process of grinding and tamping coffee beans, watching the flow of
I love coffee. So much so that I abandoned my well-paid corporate job and took a dive into a F&B start up company, feeling certain that this is the best decision that I’ve ever made in my life. Looking back at the past 12 months
‘Hmm, I don’t know how to drink coffee.’ When I animatedly tell people about the story of coffee, this is the response that I get most of the time. Everyone knows how to drink coffee, for sure (it’s a beverage!). That gets me started to
Thank to Starbucks, sipping a tall latte has translated into style, coolness and status no matter where you are. For most of us who grow up drinking coffee off packets, standing in front of a never ending coffee menu board seems like a daunting scenario. It