Dale Harris winning World Barista Championship 2017 in Seoul. Image credit Coffee Business World. Catapult your career in coffee with competitions The current World Barista Champion is the UK’s Dale Harris, wholesale director at Has Bean, a coffee roastery in Stafford. World champ. 1st place out of 7 billion! Or, more accurately, out
Is social enterprise the future? In 2015 I quit my job in charity management to start something I wasn’t sure would actually work, all I knew was that there must be a way I could connect my love of coffee with my commitment to social change. It was at that point that I started my
To celebrate a very successful 8-week Specialty Barista Traineeship in partnership with Gather & Gather, our graduates ran a pop-up cafe inside La Marzocco HQ in London. We were pleasantly surprised by the overwhelming support from all our friends and partners who came along, not to mention all our previous graduates. It was truly
Sarah Robinson! Thanks to our good friends Blue Tiger, we offered all our graduates a chance to WIN a trip to Berlin. To enter, they had to answer the following questions in any form they wished: How do you think you have progressed since you first met Well Grounded? What could be done to improve
2017 has been a massive year so far for us at Well Grounded. The team has grown with the addition of a new Head of Coffee and a Project & Marketing Manager. To add to the excitement was the launch of our new training academy in Tower Hamlets! In August, the whole Well Grounded team packed
There is a breadth and depth to Tokyo’s coffee scene that’s very distinctive. From traditional coffee shops embracing old Japan to a new wave of highly specialist cafés embodying the country’s attention to detail and unique approach to hospitality. Most strikingly, during our time in Tokyo, every coffee encounter was driven by a desire to educate and
In Japan there is an intrinsic, deep-rooted belief that it is possible to do anything and everything with excellence. Over the last three weeks we’ve seen how this is played out in their approach to coffee. We thought we’d share some of our musings with you. Today we look at their approach to hospitality and
Time to invest in the next generation of talent Yesterday marked the beginning of the London Coffee Festival 2017 and the Apprenticeship Levy. Two exciting launches in our book. Why? The London Coffee Festival captures over 4 days the increasing demand for quality coffee by consumers alongside the growth in the industry. It encapsulates all
