I just want to complain that coffee training classes are so expensive, how can I have money! Where! Yes! Money!

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People who want to enter the coffee industry will ask the editor how to start learning coffee. Is it better to be an apprentice in a coffee shop or to sign up for a training course? Where can I learn coffee? What can you learn?

At that time, the earliest group of baristas in China should only be called "baristas", not even "teachers". They worked in coffee shops, western restaurants and tea restaurants, producing a wide range of products, including coffee, wine blending, milk tea, fruit plates, ice cream, etc., which are very extensive and messy. Pre-job training only needs to listen carefully to the old staff for explanation, and then start to contact the bar from washing cups. At that time, the technology was relatively conservative, and the recipe book was almost kept and taught as a trade secret and passed on secret treasures, and there were even cases of "looking for a master" and "paying homage to a teacher to learn art" with Chinese characteristics.

Since 2005, compatriots in Taiwan have brought the concept of "coffee college" to the mainland, and formally opened the curtain of "coffee training". The teaching of coffee skills has become commercialized, systematic and modernized. in recent years, the growth of the domestic coffee consumption market has exploded, and coffee training has sprung up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

Until today, domestic baristas have become a type of work subdivided into bar functions, with a fine and sophisticated full-time scope, and the introduction of baristas is no longer as difficult and complicated as it used to be-- now many "crash course" training courses. Almost a day can learn the knowledge that used to be hard to wash cups for a month to steal back.

But the question now is:

There are many kinds of coffee training courses, such as hand flushing, flower drawing, boutique coffee, 3D flower drawing, etc.

All kinds of coffee training institutions are uneven, including cafes, trading companies, vocational schools and so on.

All kinds of certificates are flying everywhere, such as American standard, European standard, association standard, brand standard, etc.

Training fees range from one or two thousand to tens of thousands of yuan.

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On the contrary, the chaotic training market scares many newcomers who aspire to join the industry.

Today's baristas are roughly divided into two categories, one is to regard coffee as a dream, to enter from a training course, to be from a coffee college, with complete certificates, a wide range of contacts, and to have a relatively large coffee circle; the other is to first take coffee as a career, zero-based study in stores, practice to refine skills, climb and roll all the way through, this is the actual combat school. Of course, the same goal is that most of their goals or plans will be to open their own coffee shop.

So, is the professional certificate important, or the practical skills more important?

The "old driver" of the training college will tell you, "it is a shortcut to spend tuition fees to go to school to study in some so-called professional schools. You work in a cafe, feel and explore for a year and a half, starting with coffee rookies and listening to the old staff in the store to make mysteries. You can't say much even if you know it. Maybe it's a good pull." Pretending to introduce you to whether that kind of coffee can drink any unique aroma of flowers, fruit, chocolate, and so on. After all, the training school has gathered some qualified teachers who love coffee, and will not pretend to treat students like you, so that coffee rookies are the quickest way to get started. Begin to learn to understand this broad and profound coffee culture. "

After all, they themselves sell training courses, and their credibility has to be discounted.

On the other hand, some "old drivers" who rise from grass-roots posts and are entry-level will tell you, "if you spend such a large sum of money and go to those training courses for a few days, you can only learn something on the surface, all on paper, and you may have a set of theories in your mouth." a battlefield with a real knife and a real gun is a rookie. Maybe those who have any primary or intermediate certificates can't even wash a cup. Only by learning in the coffee shop can we have a solid foundation, understand the real operation of the coffee shop, learn the practical skills of operation, and develop good professional operation habits. "

There is no way. This is the dispute between the "academic school" and the "practical school". In fact, we should each play 50 boards. After all, coffee shops have to find a lot of cheap "apprentices" every year, and the high cost of training is too heavy for those who choose a career with low entry barriers such as the catering industry.

You don't believe me? As long as you search on Wechat, there will be a lot of information!

The editor compared the well-known training institutions in the industry, the prices are all the same, almost the price within the industry, how much does it cost to take a specific examination?

According to the current salary of regular baristas (that is, excluding apprentices) of 3000-4000

Tuition fees can easily be paid by baristas for a month.

Even more than half a year's salary!

Training fees remain high, there is no money! There's no money! money! money!

From the training time of textual research, we can see that you can get an intermediate certificate in 1-4 days. In addition to how to take an examination and how to do textual research, in fact, it is impossible to teach too much practical content. The basic knowledge of coffee and the relevant theories of production, through systematic and meticulous teaching, can indeed provide great help to beginners, even if not, but some tips and skills, standardized professional operation, and even maintain a stable product quality still need to be precipitated in the future!

The most embarrassing thing is that because of the exorbitant profits of the training industry, it has attracted a large wave of unscrupulous training institutions that "half a bucket of water" and even professional "circle money", and the training courses have become mixed and muddy. I'm afraid it really depends on luck how much useful you can learn through a so-called "crash course". Even if each training institute pats its chest to ensure its qualification, achievement and passing rate, it has to admit that "the water is really too deep" in this training industry, touching its own conscience in private.

So, the editor's advice for beginners is: if you are financially strong and don't want to take the time to be an apprentice, just sign up for a training course, one can't have two, two can't have three. Anyway, there are always a lot of real colleges that can teach you something useful. If there is no money...

No money? You can't tell me if you have no money! Find a place to wash cups! When you know the water and have the support of Grandpa Mao, go in and take a certificate and systematically sort out what you have learned.

Of course, when I say this, there must be a lot of people who don't believe it, and there's nothing they can do about it. You'll know after you pay the money and finish the class.

Many things, people in the circle pretend not to understand, outsiders do not understand also can not understand.

Finally, I would like to know, what do you think of the domestic coffee training industry? Are there any people who have attended the training class willing to speak for themselves?