Interactive Merchandising of coffee blend Lets Your Customer Have a Say

Table Cards – Allow the customer to get direct access to information

When it comes to creating the best in coffee, customers form the best advice you can imagine. Having customer feedback on your coffee blend is as important as having coffee.

With more and more customers looking to better understand more about the product and what goes into them, Blendly is at the leading edge of creating products and services that allow the customer to stay informed as well as help develop the flavours and tastes that can help in developing your coffee brand.

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Window Banners allow customers to interact with the coffee blends

Blendly also allows customers and clients to have the product delivered were they want it. Every coffee blend has a unique coffee code that we call CTAPS code that lows you check online what is in your favourite cup of coffee.

These cades allow you to access your blend anywhere by simply scanning the code on your coffee bag or interactive merchandising of coffee blend you can see the details and roast that was applied to your coffee

Interactive Merchandising of coffee blend
Window Vinyl – Blendly Logo Showing the three stages from the Farm to the Cup

Because Blendly production is built to give choice we allow you to create great flavours and tastes that unique to you and your customer allowing you to better engage your customer and your coffee.

If you like more information in the range of Blendly interactive products just call or drop an email to sales@blendly.co.uk.

National Union of Students Embraces Speciality Coffee at Dundee University Annual Suppliers Fair

The National Union of Students gives the thumbs up to speciality coffee with Blendly, the nation’s favourite speciality coffee roaster at a tasting held at Dundee University National Union of Students trade show.

Blendly allowed the attendees of the show to better understand how coffee can be created and how various flavours can be developed from a range of speciality Coffee beans.

speciality coffeeSpeciality coffee allows a greater range of flavours and tastes to be created giving more choice. With more and more research concluding, 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.

Working with Blendly, companies like The National Students Union can allow individual unions to create and develop their own coffee blend, using speciality coffee beans using Blendly’s  procurement system.

Blendly is speciality coffee roaster that specialise in creating speciality coffee blends for the growing number of restaurants, coffee Shops and baristas. Fresher, quicker, better and more transparent coffee.

However, the service does not stop there. Blendly allows customers speciality coffeeto have the blend shipped to their homes or friends, via its online facility. A centralised procurement system that connects to its own production lines allowing shops and customers to experience more types of flavours and tastes from the selection of freshly roasted inventory.

Creating a freshly roasted coffee straight from the roaster within 3 days Students can purchase their own Barista Plan allowing them to create their own coffee blend. The Blend comes with your own name on them featuring a fully customizable product.

This type of interaction is great for large organisations like the National Union of Students that used Blendly to create its coffee blend.

Coffee is so important for students in the  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.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/student-life/9617479/Coffee-replaces-beer-as-drink-of-choice-for-cash-strapped-

Peggy Scott’s Restaurant – Speciality Coffee at the Heart of a Great Service

Peggy Scott's coffeePeggy Scott’s are leading the way in developing relationships with local producers to create an outstanding traveller’s experience built on freshness, transparency and value.

Simon Ramsay, the company’s managing director believes in building an excellent customer experience. The building block of this experience is created around local producers and suppliers and is defined by variety and quality – This approach it’s at the heart of Peggy Scott’s value.

Peggy Scott's coffee

This allows Peggy Scott’s to develop services that are valued by its customers and its community, a community that takes pride in the products and services, keeps Peggy Scott’s customers coming back for more time after time. This supply chain that both unique and fresh allows even the smallest details to be planned to precession even down to the coffee.

Peggy Scott’s coffee was developed by Blendly, a commercial coffee roaster, which provides top quality services that are transparent to the customer and the organisation.  Blendly creates coffee blends that are both transparent and fresh allowing customers to get a better experience from the coffee.

Peggy Scott's coffee
Blendly.co.uk use the CTAPS system developed to help coffee drinkers understand the taste of their coffee

The Peggy Scott’s coffee blend was developed allowing the Team to understand the components of the coffee and create a blend from selection of beans, each bean has specific characteristics and when blended together creates a coffee that is complex yet refreshing. The Blend is made up of speciality coffee beans from Brazil, Columbia, Uganda, India, Africa and Indonesia.

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Khulan Soltanshariv from blendly.co.uk said – ”The coffee world is changing and customers are looking for products unique to themselves and Peggy Scott’s is a great example of how you can develop your coffee with a fresh local producers being an important part of the local supply chain and with customers looking for more transparency your coffee is defining statement”.

 

Darwin’s Rest – A Welcome Stop for Innovation and Coffee

Roybridge has an excellent cafe – the Darwin’s Rest but the surprise is that it is a visitor information point on the unusual geological feature called “parallel roads”. Go to the cafe/gift shop and learn and come away amazed at what you have learned.

But what is the link with great coffee and innovation  – And you might be Darwin's Restsurprised to understand that the Greatest naturalist to have lived and perhaps take a little credit for inspiring some of his remarkable achievements was here in Roybridge.

While the Galapagos Islands are largely credited with providing the inspiration for Charles Darwin’s theories, how far did his time in Scotland help shape his ideas?

There is a great spot to soak up this innovation in the Darwin’s Rest.It also understands innovation in coffee and teamed up with Blendly, the commercial coffee roaster, have created their own fresh coffee blend – to better engage its customers at Darwin’s Rest.

Coffee is playing such an important part of the high street and successful coffee shops are working with Blendly and engaging them more and more about their products and services that are unique to the products they serve. 

The Coffee Corner Adds Adventure to its Coffee Blend with Blendly and G2

speciality coffeeThe Coffee Corner and the team have enlisted Blendly, the commercial coffee roaster to develop a superb speciality coffee blend for its customers in Aviemore. As in most towns and cities, the landscape of coffee is changing. Coffee shop owners are spending more time developing coffee blends for their customers. To better engage customers in the new flavours and tastes that are available from some of the speciality coffee beans that can be used to develop your brand.

The Coffee Corner In Aviemore is also the heart of adventure and is a great place to meet at the start or indeed relax at the end of a great adventure The Coffee Corner – Understands coffee is about connecting people and is a perfect place to start such as adventure like  flying through the trees on an exhilarating ride speciality coffeethrough the Scottish Highlands? – Giving a Relaxing atmosphere to start the Uk’s first Zip Trek Adventure Park based on Alvie Estate near Aviemore! In the heart of the Cairngorms National Park, our Zip Trek is made up of 14 zip wires over a 2km course, with zips starting off nice and easy and get bigger and faster as you go along the course with the last big one at 550m long at 40mph!

What is at the heart of a this Adventure Community is the great coffee –  Coffee corner and G2 developed their speciality coffee blend based on the changing palates of their customers and also its superb menu that many customers commented on The Coffee Corner in Aviemore is one of the favourite destinations when travelling.

Good food, good service and good price. In fact, The Coffee Corner is so good that this place is usually packed.

Coffee is playing such an important part of the high street and successful coffee shops are working with their customers and engaging them more and more about their products that services that unique to the products they serve. 

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Iain Macrury the Mastermind behind the popularity of coffee corner allows the customer to order coffee online and have it sent directly to there homes anywhere in the UK utilising Blendly.co.uk

Coffee Corner also allow customers to take the coffee away as its roasted fresh Iain Macrury the Mastermind behind the popularity of coffee corner allows the customer to order coffee online and have it sent directly to there homes anywhere in the UK.

Iain Macrury helps build footfall as well as creates greater customer loyalty by allowing the customer to scan the coffee on their mobiles and have it delivered to there home.

This sort of innovation allowing the customer to have access to products is part of a national Trend. In the UK delivery sales have increased by 20% over the last five years, according to industry research firm NPD Group. Chain after chain, from McDonald’s to Moe’s Southwest Grill, has mentioned delivery as a necessary sales driver.

speciality coffeeAnd coffee is no exception, The Coffee Corner was able to develop their coffee working with Blendly, the company specialises in developing Speciality coffee blends that are unique, and transparent and it allows us to better deliver a great coffee and also help coffee shop owners manage their fresh coffee deliveries as well as give a total customised solution allowing customers to take the coffee blends home as the products are created and branded for the individual coffee shop owner .

Make Your Office Alive Again

There are many benefits of having a fun and collaborative office. The list goes on from happier and healthier employees, more productivity and an overall better organization. But a lot of organizations fail to do this. This then leads to many detrimental things for the employees and the organization.

There’s a lot of ways to implement this culture to the office. One of them is simply just by having a good coffee around. Office coffee is a commonly consumed beverage in the office and can be considered an integral part of the office culture. Some offices even offer free coffee for their employees because they know the great benefits of it.

Almost everyone loves coffee. What better way to make your office alive with the great smell of fresh coffee. But not everyone may like the same exact coffee. With Blendly, you can design your own coffee blend to have a unique taste profile that will match anyone’s preferences. You can mix different coffee beans harvested from around the world with ease with guaranteed freshness.

You can even imitate popular brands’ coffees or make it better. Imagine having Caffe Nero, Costa, Starbucks and other popular coffee shop chains right inside your office but a much affordable version, fresher and better.

Happy employees results to a better organization. Make your office alive again with Blendly.

Gringo’s Bar and Restaurant – Artisan Coffee from South America

Blendly was trusted by food entrepreneur Marinna Robertson to create a coffee that’s unique to them and their business.

Blendly specialises in the creation of flavours and tastes allowing Gringo’s Bar and Restaurant to develop their own speciality coffee blend.

Blendly working with Gringo’s created a coffee blend. That works so well with the authentic Mexican and South American street food as well as cocktails, music and atmosphere.

Blendly developed Gringo’s coffee blend from speciality coffee beans blending Colombian, Brazilian and Guatemalan coffee. The blend was designed to complement the simple yet complex flavours of the authentic Mexican and South American street food created by Food Entrepreneur Marinna Robertson.

Marinna Robertson inspiration is to create a Latin American street food and drinks bar, came when returning from travelling and working As a Chef in the French Alps.

“Working with Blendly created a signature coffee blend that has tastes of chocolate, tons of crema, spicy undertones and a sweet finish make this coffee is a must.”

Blendly offers a great range of speciality coffee. And the tools that allow the worlds best Chefs to develop products that are unique to their menu, And allow the coffee products to accessed directly by the customers that love great coffee. With more and more customers understanding the value that great Chefs like Marinna Robertson take in creating and designing the flavours and tastes that play a huge part in making a customer experience

Blendly coffee compliments the delicious, authentic Mexican and South American street food plus tasty cocktails, mescals, tequilas, wines, beers.

Gringos allow its growing customers to have a  quick lunchtime snack, sit in/or take away, afternoon coffee, cocktails… or an evening meal, with great attention to detail – right down to the coffee.

Coffee plays such an important part in our business and we have developed a loyal following of customers around our coffee and our coffee blend – and have added some variations to allow our customers to enjoy the experience.

Gringo’s coffee offering is built around the same values as the food menu creating great transparent flavours and tastes.

Blendly are different from other coffee roasters as they create blends that are unique. Other roasters products tend to be based around a single volumised product. Blendly believe in greater value for money, greater freshness and better choice of coffee. Blendly also works to promote your brand. All of our products are retail ready allowing our customers to take the product away to enjoy at home.

Gringo’s is dog friendly and can cater for all your dietary needs, including vegan and gluten-free. We are also going all out on service, music, art and atmosphere, so come enjoy some exotic flavours and let us whisk you away to Latin America!

Antlers Cafe Group – Great Coffee at the Heart of Great Coffee Shops

Companies like Antlers Cafe Group understands that coffee is at the heart of the operations and that transparency and quality build success. Developing your own products and services and incorporating it into your own customer experience develops services unique to you and builds value creating greater and fresher food for your customers.

Having Antlers Cafe Group create their own coffee blend with Blendly the speciality coffee roaster allows them to develop sales locally as a large number of customers want to drink products at home.

The Important of suppliers that integrate into our customer experience is an important part of way Blendly the commercial coffee roaster is becoming a building block in the growth of the independent coffee shops helping customers such as Antlers Cafe.

Blendly work with the customers to develop custom tastes and flavours for the independent coffee shops allowing coffee to be at the Heart of there Business

Retail Sales – Helping your customers buy Local – Around your coffee flavour and taste  Understanding that you the trained Barista and Coffee shop professional has created your own coffee taste is a theme that runs through the services and the products you chose – This allows your products to be sold locally to local customers that enjoy the overall experience

Developing new customers – and building your service – Customers are always looking for new innovation and new ways to associate with innovation and transparent services – Lifestyle and life choice is a big part of customers Identity and their relationship with you are an extension of their choices – Blendly.co.uk understands that this allows customers to access products unique to them self and access them when they require them. That’s why Blendly allows you to connect your coffee blend to your customer and allow them to take the product home or have it delivered

Creating Extra Opportunities – Blendly marketplace  As your coffee blend it confected and designed for retail sales – Its also designed to help you build sales and develop your coffee around your community, Coffee is unique to you and unique to the person that enjoys it every day, And with your Blend being Active on your Blendly Marketplace it allows you to develop more sales and more opportunities both in-house and online allowing Blendly to ship directly to your customer the blend that they tasted in the shop, Buiding put loyalty and service with customers

Blendly Coffee Blends Shipped in March May Have Been Mixed with Medical Grade Marijuana

The UK coffee roaster Blendly has recalled 100 tons of coffee blends after discovering that the South American based coffee blends were potentially mixed with medical grade marijuana.

The incident was reported by thousands of coffee shops complaining that they were running out of cheese cakes, scones, cheese and ham paninis with customers drinking the coffee. The said customers were having uncontrollable eating, followed by uncontrollable laughter after being presented their lunch time bills which on many cases were reaching upwards of hundreds of pounds during there Easter coffee break.

According to Peter Spliff, Blendly’s Operations and Distribution Partner that the potentially exposed batch was due to be sent out to its European customers in Amsterdam, however a lunch time coffee break with the operations team allowed the coffee to be distributed within its UK customer base.

The Blendly customer service team have located the affected customers and are having a hard time to do the recalls because they are asking for more of it.

Blendly is a speciality coffee roaster that creates unique coffee blends for independent coffee shops. It’s CTAPS (Coffee Tasting and Profiling System) allows their customers to create and manage their own speciality coffee blend by giving them direct access to the production and manufacturing base – allowing them to choose the mix of beans, grind, roast, certification, bag sizes and all the other factors that makes up the perfect coffee blend.

The company are now currently reviewing its internal policy with regard to coffee breaks and are considering to increase the number of coffee breaks and frequency.

Customers can still go to Blendly’s website to purchase great coffee blends for your needs, but now without the exposure to medical grade marijuana.

To find out more, go to this link.

 

Coffee Replaces Beer as the Drink of Choice for Students

coffee replaces beerAccording to research published in the Telegraph, coffee replaces beer as the drink of choice for students. More students are drinking coffee during the day while studying and fewer are going out late into the night.

Working with Blendly, companies like Food Fusion in Dundee created their own coffee blend using speciality coffee beans. Blendly is a speciality coffee roaster that specialise in creating speciality coffee blends for the growing number of Restaurants, Coffee Shops and Baristas. Better Fresher Quicker and more Transparent coffee

However, the service does not stop there. Blendly allows customers to have the blend shipped to there homes or friends, Via its online facility called Blendly.co.uk – That connects to its own production lines allowing shops and customers to experience more types of flavours and tastes from the Selection Fresh roasted Inventory

Creating a freshly roasted coffee straight from the roaster within 3 days Students can purchase there own Barista Plans allowing them to create there own coffee blendThe Blends come with your own name on them fully customizable 

This type of interaction is great for  Companies like Food Fusion in Dundee that used www.blendly.co.uk to create its coffee blend.

Shops like Food Fusion offer Great Coffee and superb food with a selection of  high-quality cakes, confectionary and traybakes which are all produced by Scottish manufacturers,

And working with Blendly it also Allows its customer to Take the Coffee Home Or order it direct from the Blendly portal.

Coffee is so important for students with the  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 coffee replaces beerreach 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

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/student-life/9617479/Coffee-replaces-beer-as-drink-of-choice-for-cash-strapped-students.html