The Future of Coffee. Barista Engage Workshop / Mentor Program:
Held at The Coffee Commune in Brisbane’s Bowen Hills, Café Culture’s Barista Engage workshop aimed to educate baristas and aspiring baristas, to the possibilities of their coffee career. The cafe and coffee industry has advanced into a hefty $13 billion segment. However, despite this, career advancement in many hospitality positions can seem rather dim. Once a hospitality superstar progresses into a management role within a business, the question will then start to stir, “What’s next for me?”.
Alternative Dairy Co’s Rachel Glasbergen was fully behind this project, looking at how the industry is changing after Covid and the importance of career path opportunities in the coffee and cafe industry. The Alternative Dairy Co business is built around sustainability and longevity of business and locking in long term futures in the industry is vital to their business ethos. “This is such an amazing program for our baristas, at a time when it’s most needed too”. (Rachel Glasbergen)
Hospitality workers often find themselves in a kind of rut, lost in finding the right direction to take in order to follow their passion, but also with a desire to continue to move forward with their career. To discuss the possible career progressions for this booming industry, Café Culture introduced the first event of an annual Barista Engage Program. Sponsored by The Alternative Dairy Co (ADC), this free one-day workshop (which was also livestreamed to those who couldn’t attend) focused on the positive career paths for baristas who want to advance in their full-time career. We asked some industry professionals to share their success stories with attendees of the workshop – and boy did they deliver!
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Brendon Kesby receiving Sunbeam prize from Will Tinkler
The day program at The Coffee Commune in Brisbane was led by the following industry leaders:
