Be a professional barista

Everything from scratch, from simple to complex is a process of progress. Doing things is also like this, all need to go through a process, this process is the sublimation of knowledge process. I have been making coffee for a period of time, and I have some knowledge of some things in the bar, but I am not proficient either. Maybe I am far from being proficient. Technically, you can be proficient through practice after practice, but if you want to go beyond this level, to manage, you have to go beyond this level. Some time ago, I heard a senior who had been making coffee for many years tell me that he was still standing at the beginning stage of coffee. At that time, I thought it was incredible. After doing it for so many years, I have seen him make coffee. Although it is not perfect, he can tell it at a glance from rookies like us. I thought I was getting started, but after listening to him, I found that I was nothing.

He told me that it is easy to do a shop, but difficult to manage it. You can take a store and open a store, but how to operate and how to manage the store is quite knowledgeable. The management directly controls the profit and loss of the whole store. Management, he seems to be a bottleneck, sometimes do not know how to break through. I found myself standing on this edge, but I couldn't get in, and I was very confused. Maybe I haven't accumulated enough things, and I still need to go deep. He told me that this is like a layer of window paper, as long as it is punctured, suddenly enlightened, but you have to pierce it yourself, others help you pierce it, even if you enter, you are still confused and at a loss. I think it is mainly because I know too little, in the boss's words, there is nothing in my head, so I can't tell you why. Generally speaking, we still have to study and continue to practice. It is true that the knowledge is not rich enough. after all, I have only been in the coffee business for half a year, and my predecessors have listened to more coffee knowledge than we have learned through careful reading. Meditation to study, can not be impetuous, can not always feel that there is nothing to do, should feel that time is not enough, that is a good phenomenon.