Chloe Tathem is the Queensland/Northern Territory Barista Trainer of Mocopan.
Since the pandemic hit, a lot of café businesses have been more financially uncertain, and therefore are more conscious and conservative with food costs and wastage. Through trimming wages and being scarce with wastage, it can make it difficult to maintain coffee training in-store. However, there are cost-effective alternatives and more sustainable and environmentally friendly solutions to keep your coffee training on track for success. Prioritising training and implementing more sustainable practices will be pivotal to sustaining cafés as we slowly recover from the pandemic.
At Mocopan, we used the time during the lockdown periods to brainstorm more sustainable practices to adapt across all facets of the