Maybe you’re reading this with a cup of coffee in your free hand or while you wait for a friend at your favorite café. Either way, coffee drinkers, we’ve come to realize, enjoy their rituals.In doing so, though, our experiences can become very focused. So we thought it may be fun to pan back a little for a broader perspective. After all, you … Read More

 It’s one of those questions we ask each other every so often as a way of making sure we haven’t tumbled over the cliff’s edge: So, how much coffee do you drink on a typical day?A roaster once told me he limits himself to a cup a day, and I got very nervous. Like, what does he know that I don’t? But, generally, the responses range from a few … Read More

Great as you are at your job, what empowers you to think big and chase down those ambitions (not to mention, live a less-stressful life) is a team who takes its work as seriously as you do.Sure, just about every occupation necessitates teamwork, but very few rely on it to the extent of event planners. For you, the basic math is simply too … Read More

We know what you’re thinking: That headline’s not exactly a novel thought. While it’s true that the café embraced the castoffs long before anyone else did, our culture’s changed a lot—a lot—since the days of the Beatnik. And yet it could be argued that the café is still a place that exists outside the mainstream.There’s no way that’s possible, … Read More

Is there anything more anxiety-inducing than hosting a boring conference? A natural disaster could derail your guests and all your plans, and it would still be marginally better than sending hundreds of people home after three or four days with nothing to talk about. (Not that we’re wishing that on anyone, of course.)The mistake too many event … Read More