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How to Run a Successful Specialty Coffee Shop
Learn the 3 essential factors for opening a thriving coffee shop—location, coffee quality, and service—and how to apply them effectively.
How to Price Coffee & Manage Costs in Your Café
Learn how to calculate your true coffee cost per cup—between 2 to 4 yuan—and set a profitable price that covers rent, labor, and more.
How to Run a Successful Specialty Coffee Shop
Learn why technical skill trumps decor, and how to pick the right location without overspending on rent for your coffee shop.
How to Successfully Open a Coffee Shop — Part 1
Learn the essential steps to open a successful coffee shop, from defining your concept to budgeting wisely and avoiding common pitfalls.
How Manabeans Café Makes Money: Coffee or Lifestyle?
Manabeans Café runs 36 profitable stores by selling ambiance and food, not just coffee. Most locations break even within a year.
The Global History of Coffee: Key Moments Over 1,500 Years
From Ethiopian goats to Venice’s first cafés, trace coffee’s journey through 15 key moments that shaped global coffee culture.
Beautiful Latte Art to Enhance Your Coffee Time
Discover how latte art adds charm to your coffee break, with tips and inspiration for creating stunning designs at home.
The Rise of London’s 17th-Century Coffeehouses
From 1650 to 1700, London’s coffeehouses became hubs of debate, publishing, and social reform—here’s how they shaped modern culture.
The 3 Key Elements of Running a Successful Coffee Shop
Learn the essential factors—location, coffee quality, and service—that make a coffee shop thrive, based on decades of specialty retail experience.
Why Freshly Ground Coffee Tastes Better
Learn why grinding coffee just before brewing preserves aroma, improves flavor, and why grind size matters for every brew method.
Xi’an’s Most Authentic French-Style Café
A French-trained couple brought Parisian café culture to Xi’an in 2013. Their spot, Auvers Café, offers Italian espresso and French pastries with an authentic European vibe.
Art-Inspired Coffee Cup Sink Brings Design to the Bathroom
Discover how a creative coffee cup-shaped sink redefines bathroom design with artistic flair and functional details, available in two classic hues.
Parisian Cafés: Where Artists Drank and Created
Discover how Parisian cafés became creative havens for writers and artists like Picasso and Hemingway, and why they still welcome all comers today.
Cycling Through Chengmai: Coffee, Sweet Potatoes & Ancient Towers
Explore 9 days of coffee tasting, ancient temples, and sweet potato roasting in Chengmai, Hainan’s coffee-growing hinterland near Haikou.
How Love Like Coffee Became a Themed Wedding
A couple’s love story, inspired by Blue Mountain coffee, led to a purple-themed wedding full of coffee details and meaningful design elements.
Mobile Coffee Shop Built Inside a Converted Car
A pop-up coffee business runs from a customized car in downtown Changsha, featuring full barista service from an unexpected mobile setup.
What Is a Macchiato and How Do You Drink It?
A macchiato is one-third the size of a cappuccino, made with just a shot of espresso topped with a layer of milk foam — no steamed milk.
Starbucks' New Summer Drinks: Peanut Mocha & Cocoa Frappuccinos
Starbucks debuts two new summer Frappuccinos: Peanut Mocha and Peanut Cocoa Crumbs. Both feature peanut flavor, creamy texture, and crunchy cocoa bits for a refreshing treat.
Qingdao Hosts Rare Kopi Luwak Coffee Tasting Event
A 50g pack of Kopi Luwak costs ¥1,500 and makes just 3–4 cups, retailing at around ¥400 per cup. Learn what made this ultra-rare coffee the focus of a recent Qingdao tasting.
Starbucks Iced Caffè Americano: What’s the Difference?
Starbucks’ Iced Caffè Americano uses espresso and ice water, matching the strength of regular iced coffee but with a bolder, less sweet flavor profile.