Coffee Cart type of Questions

[beanflying]

Hi all,

couple of questions some of the commercial operators might be able to help me get a grip on. Background to this is an outdoor takeaway only festival crowd.

Milk types. Plan was to only offer full cream but thinking that I am bound to get asked for Soy or Low Fat as well. What sort of percentage of each of these drinks do you make compared to full cream?

Decaf do you offer it as well? I have plenty of grinders so that bit is easy. Thinking 1 in 30-40? Or dont bother?

Bit of a dumb question but from having easy accsess to a sink to limited water how often do you wash out the milk Jugs? :P

Bound to be a few more questions as I think of them, TIA

[herzog]

Re: Coffee Cart type of Questions

Just put up a sign like the one in Bar Italia in Leichhardt:

No Skim
No Soy
No Decaf

[runfast]

Re: Coffee Cart type of Questions

it of a dumb question but from having easy accsess to a sink to limited water how often do you wash out the milk Jugs?Tongue

Just put up a sign like the one in Bar Italia in Leichhardt:
No Skim
No Soy
No Decaf  

No Clean

[beanflying]

Re: Coffee Cart type of Questions

Talked to a few more today and agreed NO decaf is the way to go. But the Juries out on Soy and Skinny talked to my crew today and they reckon 20-30% skinny is about what they do but thats with a cafe with some takeaways and a few Soy per day :-/

Dont like steaming skinny much and hate the taste of soy but I guess I will need to buy some and practice a bit myself :P

[Thundergod]

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If its a one off festival Id only be offering full cream.
You cant please all of the people all of the time so you might as well please yourself.

[runfast]

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Maybee Full and Hi Lo - Wouldnt bother with skim for 1 event.

[WSullivan]

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Dont like steaming skinny much and hate the taste of soy but I guess I will need to buy some and practice a bit myself

You cant please all of the people all of the time so you might as well please yourself.

I love my espresso and ristrettos shots but I cant stand the long blacks that i make by pulling the shot over hot water, but others absolutely love them, and they come back for more.....my mother in law always says, "just because you dont like it, doesnt mean others wont". Shes an amazing chef and im always bugging her to cook things she hates eating.....samething i suppose

Its something i have to learn:

[runfast]

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I cant stand the long blacks that i make by pulling the shot over hot water

What dont you like about them WSully? :-?

[WSullivan]

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Cant really put my finger on it, but if i had to attempt.......just dont like the watered down taste of the "americano" id much rather have a sweet full bodied shot anyday of the week

[runfast]

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but I cant stand the long blacks that i make by pulling the shot over hot water

just dont like the watered down taste of the "americano" id much rather have a sweet full bodied shot

So WSully is off the hook; it is not that you dont like  your long blacks but that you dont like long blacks period!

[WSullivan]

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I was talking about mine, but yeah dont like em period, trust me its not through lack of trying, tried Di Bella, Venesianos etc just cant get the taste for them, as i said i prefer the shot.

cheers
warren

[Thundergod]

Re: Coffee Cart type of Questions

my mother in law always says, "just because you dont like it, doesnt mean others wont".

Warren I was talking about the practicality of running a stand not who likes what.

How about stocking the top 3 selling soy milk varieties to cater for all possible customers?

At some point it becomes ridiculous (and uneconomical) to try and please everyone.

We are talking here about how many different types of milk to have on hand for the day.

Obviously long blacks are off topic.

[Coffee2Di4]

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Id personally go for around half and half full cream and low-fat milk. In my experience, a lot of people nowdays ask for a skim or skinny latte or cap but they dont really mean skim milk as such but just low fat.

I probably wouldnt worry about the soy option - you probably wouldnt get enough of those to justify the extra cleaning, cost of buying the milk, and having to cart around a second milk jug. Ditto for the Decaf.

No experience in coffee carts whatsoever, but lots of experience waiting in lines (and eavesdropping) to order a coffee over the years!

Cheers
Di


[off topic] Hey, BF - I think you could probably take the P Plates off your sig now...I think youve well and truly passed the point of no return! [/off topic]

[beanflying]

Re: Coffee Cart type of Questions

Hey, BF - I think you could probably take the P Plates

I just upgraded myself from "L" plates earlier this week. After the Folk Festival one of three things will happen, Full Licence, back to L plates or in the Looney Bin I think

At this stage low fat is my preference not skinny and will see how 70 / 30 split goes. Soy is most likely out but if we get some asking the Supermarket is only 100m away and the dairy is doing daily deliveries if needed.

The long black thing is not so silly to dicuss, a mate of mine likes the shot poured first, while I like the look of the shot poured over hot water. Personally the best long blacks by far are Syphons with the right beans but I wont be doing Syphon for the weekend

[WSullivan]

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my mother in law always says, "just because you dont like it, doesnt mean others wont".  

Warren I was talking about the practicality of running a stand not who likes what.

How about stocking the top 3 selling soy milk varieties to cater for all possible customers?

At some point it becomes ridiculous (and uneconomical) to try and please everyone.

We are talking here about how many different types of milk to have on hand for the day.

Obviously long blacks are off topic.

Thanks TG! as per usual, straight to the point, not a bush in sight to beat, i apologise profusely for taking it off topic....... :P