The Coffee Show

Most famous coffee bar on the planet, how did they do it? Patricia Founders Bowen Holden and Pip Heath

The Coffee Show

Show Notes

If you ask most coffee professionals: What is the most famous specialty coffee place in the world? Most of them will answer Patricia Coffee Brewers in Melbourne.

Patricia is one of the crown jewels of the City of Melbourne. They make 1200+ coffees per day and people travel from all over the world to experience going there.

What makes it so special? This is a coffee shop tucked away in an alley of Melbourne. Next to it are some dumpsters and the best seat you can get is a milk crate, and yet people wait in line (no matter the weather) just to drink their coffee.

For that level of devotion they must be doing something right! In this podcast Bowen and Pip give the A-Z of how they started, and what details the went over to get things right.

How valuable is complimentary sparkling water? What do customers really care about? How do you make a negative experience a positive one?

If you want to open a coffee shop, you NEED to listen to this first, there is so much value in one podcast!

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