Keys To The Shop : Equipping Coffee Shop Leaders 408: Coffee Tools, Music, and Serving the Community w/ Anita Tam of Slow Pour Supply Co.
The world of coffee is saturated with suppliers of tools and equipment. Most are seeking the transaction and chasing the opportunity the current market has afforded them. Precious few suppliers are truly passionate about their customers in a meaningful way that results in the love and respect of the barista community. Slow Pour Supply is one such company, because Anita Tam is one such person.
Anita Tam is the owner and founder of Slow Pour Supply Co., a socially driven coffeetools company that is dedicated to serving coffee people and small businesses around the world.
Prior to coffee Anita spent decades in the world of professional music as both a professional classical musician, instructor, and conductor. She discovered a passion and fascination for the craft and science of coffee that set her on a course to not only work in coffee but to establish Slow Pour as a platform to foster the same discovery for baristas globally through quality tools.
Anita is a long time certified AST with the SCA and you can find her and her team at almost any coffee event or competition spreading joy and positivity and serving the community.
Today we are going to be getting to know a bit about Anita's entry into coffee, the passionate and philosophies that drive her, and how she approaches business and relationships in coffee with wholistic generosity.
We cover:
- The link between music, art, and coffee
- Founding slow pour and guiding principles
- Passion for the product and end user
- Milk pitchers, brewers, and tools as catalysts
- The need for in person connection and community
- Creating, serving, and passing on gifts
- Peace through the circular flow of experiences
- Thoughts on the future of coffee
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