Barista Plans (Case Studies)

The Butcher The Baker Wins The Best Young Business of the Year

In the sixth annual Courier Business awards, The Butcher The Baker was one of the businesses from across Tayside and Fife that are celebrating after being named winners in the Sixth Annual Courier Business Awards.

In all, 23 awards were handed out at the glittering ceremony in the Apex Hotel, with Castle Water of Blairgowrie taking home the coveted Business of the Year prize. The ceremony also saw Mike Galloway, the former executive director of city development at Dundee City Council, recognised.

At The Butcher The Baker, there will be one word that you will continually see and we hope it jumps out at you. It is a small, two-syllable noun called PASSION. It may only be a noun and one that is too often overused, but it is the one definitive word that we genuinely believe succinctly portrays what drives us personally and as a business and one that you will see time and time again. Simply it is what and who we are.

The Butcher The Baker is also a business that accepts no compromise with any component of its operation, from the team that was chosen to lead it, to our suppliers and product range and it reflects the level of investment and commitment that designed and built this new, innovative and exciting retailing concept.

Blendly is delighted to be the supplier and creator of The Butcher The baker’s coffee blend, The blend was developed as part of the companies attention to detail.

The task of creating the coffee was given to Blendly commercial coffee roaster, Blendly develop a mission-critical service for the most demanding environments. the coffee is roasted upon order to ensure its freshness

Blendly developed this signature blend as part of the companies’ retail offering creating a customised look to the coffee allow the customers to take the brand home.

All of Blendly’s products have their own special code that allows the retail customers to order directly online – as well as make blend modifications to allow the customer to design and develop tastes that are unique to themselves and have it delivered straight to your door.

Clark’s Bakery – Create a Perfect Coffee Blend for The Butcher The Baker

The third generation started going into fast food in a small way 15 years ago. Remembering how Jonathan Clark from Clark’s Bakery used to do hot filled rolls and so the journey began to create a fast food business that is talked about on the media, national radio and national newspapers. Now in 2017 they have 9 shops and employing over 100 staff and have just recently opened their own The Butchers the Baker.

Creating a great coffee for such a great and traditional brand was handed down to Blendly. Blendly is a commercial coffee roaster that specialises in developing unique coffee blends for its customers to complement the service, the food and the customer’s pallets.

Blendly offers a superb range of services that allows, coffee drinkers to create flavours and tastes unique to them self-creating a mission-critical service for the most demanding of environments.

The Butcher The Baker is a business that accepts no compromise with any component of their operation. From the team that was chosen to lead, and to the suppliers and product range, it reflects the level of investment and commitment that designed and built this new, innovative and exciting retailing concept.

Blendly created a coffee blend that allows The Butcher the Baker customers to access the product not only in the local shops but also over the counter. Coffee is freshly roasted ready for serving.

Bite Into Your Own Supply Chain and Build Transparent Relationship to Create Value

Bite to Eat use Blendly to create its fresh coffee accessing a global commodity base to create a product that’s unique and also engages the customer better.

There is a growing number of customers that understand the importance of creating their own unique supply chain build around the strength of local suppliers and local producers.

Companies such as Bite to Eat find it just as easy to utilise and manage its products using the internet than to select one wholesaler as a one-stop shop.

This increased movement by consumers and grocers alike to “buy local,” the food chain is becoming progressively more globalized for most countries around the world. This globalization has created a range of opportunities.

Moving away from the big brands and having your own supply chain is a reflection of the effort you take to create something special that adds value to all.

Blendly.co.uk is at the forefront of developing and integration into the Local, National and even global supply chains allowing customers to develop locally developed products and taste in their coffee products.

Blendly allows its customers their own unique set of speciality tools to manage and develop their products specific to the markets they want to serve.

Blendly operates on a global community base of the world’s speciality coffee beans and has them processed in their speciality coffee facilities to create products unique to you and your palate and also allow you to manage the products via your online accounts.

This approach allows customers to have more choices and to have more ways of opening up new opportunities.

Highland Wholefoods – The Home of Fresh Coffee

Since 1989 we have been supplying local communities in the Highlands and Islands and north-east Scotland with organic, vegetarian, GM-free and fair trade products. Highland Wholefoods and their coffee flavour was developed by Blendly, the home of speciality coffee.

At Blendly, we believe in helping with the logistics and operations and to be a partner in the success of your business – allowing you more time to grow.

Here at Blendly over the last year, we have been introducing predictive ordering services. These services are designed to work with organisations such as Highland Wholefoods which allow their coffee blend to be fresher, better and quicker.

Like most industries of all kinds use predictive technology, from banks to insurance companies to restaurants. For retailers, these programs hold the promise of reducing waste and profit loss, as well as boosting customer loyalty.

Blendly offer customers many ways to develop coffee products and offer a range of services that are designed to create unique products to the customer based on choice and taste.

So for a superb tasting coffee created to allow the best in flavour and taste Highland Wholefoods has a superb range of freshly roasted coffee developed by the UK’s leading commercial coffee company.

Fresher and Better Coffee with the Help of Predictive Ordering

Over the last year, we have been introducing predictive services. These services are designed to work with you and to create a predictive ordering to allow your coffee blend to be fresher, quicker and better.

Working in a modern customer environment, while working out all the logistics to keep your operations moving can be challenging in fact with mission-critical products it’s the key to a successful business

Here at Blendly, we believe in helping with the logistics and operations and to be a partner in the success of your business – allowing you more time to grow.

Blendly offer customers many ways to develop the coffee products and offer a range of services that are designed to create unique products to the customer based on choice and taste

– Blendly online accounts have Predictive ordering and sales forecasting can reduce risk by providing more accurate scenario planning.

– Blendly online accounts come with forecasting software and data from the field, a company could predict the impact of a weather event or a new promotion on sales.

– Blendly online accounts Predictive ordering identifying the factors that affect sales fluctuations, companies can do a better job of identifying customer needs and getting ahead of these spikes or dips in demand.

– Blendly Predictive ordering can greatly benefit from predictive sales forecasting. They can see the impact of a marketing campaign and use that to design better promotions, or identify specific time periods when a promotion might be most effective.

– Blendly Price optimization is another benefit since companies can better gauge when discounting can be used to reduce inventories without damaging their margins. and can optimise blends according to tastes and price

– Blendly online accounts have Predictive ordering and sales forecasting can also help improve the way companies approach product lifecycle management because they can use historical data to identify when demand is likely to drop off.

Blendly accounts are helping customers create fresher and better roasted coffee – unique to you and your business as well as developing and reducing costs

Food Fusion – Brings Good Food Together – And great Speciality Coffee In the Heart of Dundee

More and more people are turning to Blendly. Blendly is a speciality coffee roaster that specialises in creating coffee blends for the growing number of restaurants, coffee shops and baristas. Food Fusion in Dundee has great coffee and superb food with a selection of high-quality cakes, confectionary and traybakes which are all produced by Scottish bakers.

Working with Blendly, Food Fusion in Dundee created their own coffee blend. Using speciality coffee beans, Blendly.co.uk is speciality coffee roaster that specialises in creating speciality coffee blends for the growing number of restaurants, coffee shops and Baristas.

Coffee replaces beer as the drink of choice for students, and more students are drinking coffee during the day while studying – and fewer are going out late into the night.

A National Union of Students has charted the rise in popularity of gourmet coffee among students in a report, which emphasised: “Students’ Unions will need to embrace the whole coffee experience.

The UK coffee shop market has enjoyed its biggest period of growth since 2008. Over the last five years, the market rose by 37%, up from £2.4 billion in 2011 to reach an impressive £3.4 billion in 2016 Food restaurants and sandwich shops have increased sales of the hot drink three times faster than specialist outlets over the last nine years

And with each coffee customer spending an average of £2,160 a year working from coffee shops – but we close business deals worth £14.5bn to the UK economy’ Findings from the research included – Coffee is an important product

The Madock Centre Perthshire – A Place For Skill and Innovation

The coffee available at The Madock Centre joins the growing number of coffee locations that help boost innovation to the local economy. More people are working out of coffee shops thus coining the new term “coffice”. Rather than commuting to a boring old office, they take their laptops to their local coffee shops where they can tap and work.

More people are working out of coffee shops thus coining the new term, “Coffice”. Rather than commuting to a boring old office, they take their laptops to their local coffee shops where they can tap

The official opening was attended by Deputy First Minister of Scotland and the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills.

the madock centre Blendly the commercial coffee roaster understand that More people are working out of coffee shops thus coining the new term, “Coffice”. Rather than commuting to a boring old office, they take their laptops to their local coffee shops where they can tap into the internet with wifi and power outlets to recharge devices – with great coffee to recharge oneself. The size of the “office” economy is extensive, as four out of five Brits have worked from a coffee shop and do so regularly.

The Madock Centre is improving the quality of life for local residents by providing recreational facilities – it is also providing a hub for innovation – as well as combating social isolation, acting as a social hub, community cafe and a place for community groups to meet.

The Madock Centre is more than just a community centre, it is a community heart, this spectacular new facility was developed with the community in mind and provides high quality, purpose-built recreational, conference and meeting place in the heart of the Perthshire countryside.

This superb destination caters to everyone from the business traveller looking the madock centre for state of the art facility or informal meeting – to a location for parents to relax and meet with family and friends.

Nestled in the heart of Perthshire– Situated perfectly as a base for the great outdoors and represents the ideal spot to meet and plan those outdoor adventures.

The Madock Centre is also about great coffee – working with Blendly they have developed their own special taste. Blendly is a speciality coffee roasters that specialises in creating speciality coffee blends for the growing market. The company provide be-spoke coffee blends all over Scotland

the madock centre Coffee is at the heart of a great coffee destination and for centuries coffee has been a medium for relationships. travelers have long gathered over coffee with family or friends to talk about things good and bad.

The Madock Centre developed its blend with the help of www.Blendly.co.uk. It allows its customers to select and make a coffee blend unique to themselves according to their choice of beans to create a great and unique coffee.

Aberdeen Speciality Coffee Shop KirkView Café & Bistro Developed Coffee Blend with Blendly

Rob Milne and Samuel Dagostim – the owners of Kirk View Café & Bistro
on Union Terrace, Aberdeen, not only create great food but with the help of Scottish commercial roaster Blendly have developed their own speciality coffee blend.

“Coffee is so important and we were delighted to work with Blendly.co.uk in developing our own coffee blend. We have increased overall footfall as result, we are providing great coffee to our customers that would traditionally visit national chains from their daily coffee fix.

Samuel Dagostim, the South American partner in the restaurant wanted to capture the essence of great South American coffee “There’s no denying that Aberdeen, passionately embraced coffee. We have taken the time to create our own coffee blend based on some classic South American Beans using the skills of Blendly.co.uk and we were delighted quickly to see some great feedback”.

Blendly allow you to create and develop great coffee unique to your requirements

Kirk View Café and Bistro Group has been working with Blendly.co.uk, a Scottish based speciality coffee roaster and we were able to create a superb product with the help of the Blendly.co.uk team.

We understand that as part of our marketing mix it was important all our products in our bistro represent the best of local transparent produce and our coffee was so important.

Last year we spent £6.2 billion in coffee bars across the country, an increase of £400million on the year before. There are 16,500 coffee shops in Britain and the sector is booming – Developing a coffee that is our own allows us to stand out.

We also understand coffee may once have seemed frighteningly expensive, but many of us now see it as an affordable luxury, and for others, it is practically one of life’s basic necessities.

Coffee shops seem to have a truly universal appeal; they have captured the hearts of men, women and even children from all socio-economic groups. But it was women who drove the introduction of coffee shops to the UK, and it is women who drive many of their key features in the Kirk View Café.

The Kirk View Café takes nothing for granted, “It was such an original idea to incorporate attractive soft furnishings. Things that we take for granted today, allowing consumers to feel like they are in their own home.” This is especially important for our female customers as we have created a great place to drink great coffee. Our Coffee shop mean women are more likely to drive the look and feel of coffee experience and help us develop more innovation.

So there are plenty of reasons for all our coffee lovers to order up a coffee and stay in a relaxed environment and eat some great local food.

How Cupcake Coffee Box Got Voted Number One by Trip Advisor

Cupcake Coffee Box located at The Macdonald Mall Kirkcaldy (fomerly the Old MacDonald’s restaurant on the high street). This award winning coffee shop is a great social hub allowing customers to enjoy great coffee.

Cupcake Coffee Box located at The Macdonald Mall Kirkcaldy is a great social hub allowing customers to enjoy great coffee as well as a place to meet and socialise with friends and colleges and work mates.

This award winning coffee shop is bursting with activities. Activities that allow customers to meet and enjoy great events such as Book Clubs, Wine Tasting, and many more community activities that can be viewed on Cupcake Coffee Box’s great calendar of activities and entertainment.

Cupcake Coffee Box understand the high street is changing and coffee shops are now community hubs providing an important heart to the high street with more and more people seeing the high street as a place of leisure and recreation boosted by people shopping more online. Instead of spending their Saturdays trawling the shops, Scotts are meeting up with friends at their local coffee shop.

Customers think of the coffee shop as a social venue. Early market data into this Cupcake Coffee Box is believed to centre around the growth of female independence and female spending power. With some studies reporting over half of the customers to these coffee shops are women.
People talk about the pub as a meeting point but pubs were more about males in the evening, coffee shops are [ope Cupcake Coffee Box n] all day, more female [orientated] and certainly more family friendly.

Cupcake Coffee Box is part of a growing number of coffee shops that are engaging customers at all levels and creating spaces for friends, business and families to meet and enjoy great coffee and great company.

How Can Urban Brew at Kelvingrove Art Gallery Be at the Heart of Coffee Culture in Glasgow

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum houses one of Europe’s great art collections. It is amongst the top three free-to-enter visitor attractions in Scotland and one of the most visited museums in the United Kingdom outside of London.

Sitting just across the road, is the new artisan coffee house, Urban Brew. Unban Brew offers a great coffee great break from the cultural visit to Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.

Wendy Lam Urban Brew Head of coffee understand that coffee shops are part of the cultural landscape within Glasgow. Urban brew developed a coffee blend around the Caffe culture that growing within the City and developed a coffee blend based around the traditional trading routes of the 1700s.

This is a superb coffee blend – back then Glasgow was beginning to get access to the oceans and it allowed the

import of goods and commodities from the Americas and the Caribbean which were then traded throughout the United Kingdom and Europe. These imports flourished after 1707. By 1760, Glasgow had outstripped London as the main port for some commodities.

Part of that cultural movement leads to the development of buildings like the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum which houses one of Europe’s great art collections.

Coffee played a large part of the early commodity trade and our coffee blend brings together – The culture of Glasgow and the Best in South American, Indian, and Asian coffee beans and we have created – a coffee blend that’s it both bursting with flavour and unique to the Urban Brew coffee house.