Open a coffee shop to open a comfortable mood

Only after many processes can a cup of coffee be fragrant.

This issue will be: Guan Feng

Working time: 3 years

Career experience: after graduating from school in 1999, he was engaged in pharmaceutical sales, teaching, and coal business. In 2008, bid farewell to battlefield-like business and returned to Taiyuan.

Career perception: turning what you like into a career is the greatest pleasure in life.

A perceptual space that warms the heart

The image that the coffee shop brings to people is always gentle music, coffee with different joys and sorrows, and a time when you can stop with your eyes closed. People in the fragrant atmosphere of leisure communication, gathering, relief, put aside the pressure.

Next to the quiet and elegant neighborhood, Guanfeng's coffee shop is quiet but not very eye-catching. Coffee drinkers gather at eight o'clock in the evening. The coffee making room is open, and there is a full set of coffee tools on the table: hot kettle, grinder, coffee pot. Guests can sit around at will and watch every step of the coffee making. "I have seen old friends I haven't seen for years reunited here, and I will also meet young people who come here specially from other places to drink coffee." Guan Feng said that the coffee shop is a place where miracles often happen. Once, a boy held a birthday Party for a girl in a store, specially looking for 100 people to wish her a happy birthday as a DV, which was broadcast live to her. When the girl was moved, she made a promise with her body.

Guan Feng said that people come to the coffee shop to get rid of busy and noisy work, take a short rest or date. A coffee shop should be a perceptual space that can warm people's hearts, make people rethink, and make people feel enthusiastic and energetic. Therefore, baristas must have this sentiment.

A fine job of extracting the essence

In order to make a good cup of coffee, Guan Feng made a special trip to Beijing Engraving time Coffee Institute to study coffee making. He also traveled to many places in Shanghai and Xiamen, often learning and communicating with foreigners and elders in the domestic coffee industry. Guan Feng said, "Coffee is a very personalized thing, and everyone makes it differently." What the customer tastes is not only coffee, but also a kind of sentiment and magnified emotion. "

Guests never have the same demand for coffee. Either way, the tube front will be carefully made. "making coffee is a delicate job. Pay attention to every detail, the perfect coffee can be presented, just like being a human being. A good coffee should be ground within 15 minutes before drinking. It will oxidize too early and affect the aroma of the coffee too late. When adding water to different coffee powder, there are specific requirements for the thickness and temperature of the water flow. "

Hand punch, siphon, mocha, French pressure, Philharmonic pressure... Different coffee mixes use different utensils. "if you want to be beautiful, you must use beans and pure water to make good coffee. Legal pressure is suitable for making good beans, which can best reflect the original taste of beans. " Guan Feng weighed the coffee beans while introducing them. "Coffee must be weighed on a scale, so that it can taste enough." "the ice drop coffee group is exquisite and elegant, the production is special, and it takes the longest." The tube front took the crystal clear ice drop utensils to compare, suddenly came the interest. "what is special about ice drop coffee is that the water melted by ice is completely used in the extraction process, dripping into a container containing coffee powder, and then passing through a rotating filtration device to allow the coffee powder to be slowly extracted through ice water."

Tube front introduced while controlling the dripping speed of ice water, "60 to 90 drops a minute is the best, first let the coffee all wet." Iced coffee takes seven to eight hours to slowly soak and ferment, he said. "it starts to drip at night and can only be enjoyed after 24 hours. The whole ice drip machine only weighs two or three cups a day. Compared with coffee brewed by hot water, ice drops taste more mellow. After such a long time of extraction, every drop is the essence. "

A profession that requires more patience

Guan Feng feels that his mind has changed a lot. "it can fade away people's impetuosity." If you want to make good coffee, you have to be meticulous and patient. Both are indispensable. "

In many cases, guests who come here to spend money will come late and stay even later. Guan Feng must be on standby at any time, and it is not common to have a rest at two or three o'clock in the evening. "in the past two years, at the request of customers, I also spent my Spring Festival holiday in the store." He said that he had to stay in the store on weekends and so on.

For the comfort of others, has been busy, this is the portrayal of daily work. To persevere in doing a good job, Guan Feng suggests that it is best to like coffee like him. "turning what you like into a career is the greatest joy in life."

Read the market

There are broad prospects for the development of this industry. In the busy urban life, more and more people have become accustomed to leisure or business negotiations in coffee shops, and then like coffee and coffee culture.

In big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, coffee is more popular, while Taiyuan is relatively backward. At present, all coffee shops in Taiyuan have baristas, but there are not many professionals. Some only master the punching and toning, and there is little research on its connotation. In Taiyuan, the monthly salary is generally about 1500 yuan, while in big cities such as Beijing, the top earners earn nearly 10,000 yuan a month.

His work includes basic identification of coffee beans; blending of different flavors of coffee according to the characteristics of coffee beans; using coffee equipment and coffee utensils to make coffee; providing coffee services to customers and spreading coffee culture. If you want to be an outstanding person, you need to study from a professional institution for several months and have many skills, especially a high cultural connotation and artistic temperament.

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Take and write: our reporter Wang Bin intern Zhao Shijun Photography: our reporter Kou Ning

Professional walker

Under the soft lights and gentle music, they were busy gracefully. Hands shuttling between the coffee pot and the bean grinder, giving the coffee a chic beauty and taste, releasing the magic of the coffee. Screening, baking, grinding, blending, coffee beans are no longer seeds, Baiwei salty set, full of spirituality.

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