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228 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2017
Your business, regardless of its function, must have a culture of learning and development. [...] Once this is happening you will find that the people that work for you and the people that you attract soon begin to perform better at those tasks than you ever did. That frees you up to focus on more strategic aspects of your business [...]. It's a very strange feeling for me to sit in my café and realise I'm no longer qualified to work there, but one I take a strange source of pride from.
p. 172
[...] I know from experience that people who want extra hot drinks are usually quite aggressive about how they request it and, a lot of the time, this is completely understandable because they've probably been mistreated by a swathe of surly baristas in previous cafés they visited. [...] There's an extra trick that you can do to help the customer get the drink they want. Just before you make the drink, take the handle of the cup and run it under piping hot water. [...] Once the drink is made and delivered to the customer the first message you're sending them as soon as they touch the cup is that this one's piping hot. You won't get many complaints after that.
p. 130
When people come to cafés, bars or restaurants, they very rarely face the wall when they sit down, they always want to look in at the bar or out the window. You should bear this in mind when planning out how the space in the café will be used and realise that people-watching is a huge part of a café's brief.
p. 103