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The benefits of serving a specialty single origin
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Today’s specialty coffee customer has high expectations. The look and feel of the café, the quality of the drink, and excellent customer service must combine to meet or exceed this expectation. Specialty coffee consumers are aware of quality and transparency in the coffee they purchase and when highlighting a Single Origin coffee as part of the daily coffee menu, customers have an appreciation. They engage and are often willing to learn more, sometimes chatting with the barista or in their own time researching facts and perhaps attending coffee workshops. They begin to feel a deep personal connection to the coffees they...
Media alert!
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A beautifully written article about our director Gina Di Brita. www.cafereporter.com.au Issue #4, 2016
Partnership for gender equality
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Gender equality is an extremely important topic and is spread world-wide even in western societies such as Australia where inequality of pay or worse, sex trafficking “does” exist. We focus our attention to Rwanda in the Domenic Republic of Congo where women are traditionally considered less valuable than men, merely an instrument of sexual satisfaction and a producer of children. This is an issue close to our hearts, and this is why we have decided to support one foundation in particular called Women Rebuilding hope based in Bakavu Rwanda, Domenic Republic of Congo. Women Rebuilding Hope is a nonprofit organisation...
New single origin - Sumatra Aceh Takengon Pegasing
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Aceh is well known for producing one of the most remarkable Sumatran coffees in the world. This lot of Aceh coffee is sourced by Aliong that run SariMakmur dry mills in Aceh; which consists of approximately 5,000 small farmers. Wet hulled “Giling Basah” is traditional coffee processing method only done in Sumatra. As part of Corporate Social Responsibility, SariMakmur has been working with farmers’ education through this facility for proper crop management to increase production yield hence better welfare for farmers. The team also host regular meeting with collectors to ensure continuous education to farmers. This practice has proven...
Numero Uno is pleased to announce its involvement with the formation of The International Women's Coffee Alliance Australian Chapter.
The International Women’s Coffee Alliance (IWCA) is seeking volunteers to assist with their presence at the The Coffee Experience in Sydney. From 3 – 5 September, a group interested in formalising the IWCA Australia Chapter will host its own stand at the expo to raise awareness of the needs of women in the industry, the vision for IWCA Australia, and the benefits for those who join. To help spread the group’s passion for empowerment of women in the coffee industry, the IWCA is seeking interested volunteers to assist throughout the expo. Anyone interested in supporting the formation of Australia’s first...