Keys To The Shop : Equipping Coffee Shop Leaders
Hosted by Chris Deferio and Chris · Chris Deferio
4.8from 256 ratings
- 1,168
- Episodes
- 243
- Transcribed
- 256
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
- 88K
- YouTube views
About Keys To The Shop : Equipping Coffee Shop Leaders
A coffee podcast providing coffee shop owners and leaders, with insights, inspiration, and the tools you need to grow and advance your coffee business or coffee career. We learn from experts both in and outside the coffee industry as they deliver specific, practical, and actionable advice about ownership, optimization, profitability, barista work, employee culture, management, scaling, leadership, personal development, and anything else that will help you achieve success in the coffee shop.
- Publisher
- Chris Deferio
- Category
- arts · business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 Jan 2017
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
243 of 1,168 episodes have a transcript.
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
630: Two Dollar Drip and The Fight For Accessible Menus w/ Tim Riley of Heavy Water Coffee, Los Angeles, CA
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
629: Founder Friday! Stephanie Jones of Mrs. Jones Cold Brew is The OG Cold Brew Queen!
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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630: Two Dollar Drip and The Fight For Accessible Menus w/ Tim Riley of Heavy Water Coffee, Los Angeles, CA
Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And then I get to also interact with fellow Angelenos on a daily basis and just be part of other people's lives. Like we are inherently communal as people. So I don't know. I wouldn't say it's what drew me to coffee economic. Like I had to work. I needed that you get to interact with the community. And that's sort of my ethos for the business. Honestly, Chris, I could use some of your help with the back end stuff, you know, like margins and ordering and stuff like that. Like admittedly, But it's working. What we got going on over here is working. And I think that it's just like operating from a position of empathy is very important to a sustainable business in 2026, because I've been the customer with $15 in my bank account, going to the coffee shop to spend six of them. […]
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- Tim Riley
- Stephanie Jones
- Will Guidara
- Lindsay Wredge
- Ben Carlson
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- 87,627
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- 4.8 / 5
- 256 ratings
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- 99
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 85
- Engagement
- 96
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Chris Deferio and Chris host the show. Published by Chris Deferio.
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