For Zoleka Sparks, Cafe consulting is about assisting retail coffee shops, cafes and bakeries in building successful systems. The process of opening up a coffee shop or a pop-up takes a lot of work, time, and effort. Her goal is to make it as simple and achievable as possible with her knowledge from running licensed Starbucks Kiosks and runs her own pop-up inside of Poolside Cooking Cafe.
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Zoleka has been a coffee professional for over a decade and uses her intimate knowledge of the industry to help clients utilize the language of coffee through her signature beverage training, bridging the gap between the creativity and intentionality given the cocktail world versus coffee.
Cafe & Restaurant Consulting
The right coffee consultant removes the learning curve from a new coffee shop to existing cafe looking to scale while bringing technical know-how and experience to streamline a coffee business for success. Millions need coffee, which usually generates a restaurant's most significant profit margin. Expert coffee consulting expedites your time to market, improves your offerings and margin, and avoids the hurdles that lead to delays, additional costs, and failed opportunities. Whether you want a coffee business, coffee cart, or coffee program, our consultants, with 20+ years of experience, will guide you with the knowledge, tools, and heart needed to make your project flow.
Cafe Brand Consulting
Your brand is a feature, or combination of features, that identifies one seller's good or service as distinct from those of other sellers. Your Brand is literally everything. Successful restaurant and coffee business entrepreneurs both independent and corporate alike do an excellent job of creating a unique experience, creating a specific energy and tone that resonates with their target market and turns one-off customers into regulars and enthusiasts. Your brand is the integral secret sauce that defines all the future decisions of your business. It allows you to duplicate your brand with additional locations and creates consistent growth.
We offer a comprehensive suite of tools that assists you in conceptualizing you cafe vison from startup to scaling to greater growth as well as answer unknowns with expertise.
Cafe Design & Flow
Elegant function through thoughtful design is our strong suit. Our custom coffee bar concepts impart the wisdom, vision, and experience that can only come from a seasoned coffee professional who’s crafted hundreds of thousands of drinks. We take great pride in seeing the tiny details that make something deeply functional. Beautiful bar design minimizes movement between zones, mitigates workplace injury and burnout, and maximizes product output and profitability through an intuitive bar and customer flow, resulting in a superior brand experience for customers and workers alike. The difference of one step can lead to hundreds of additional throughout the day. Seeing and knowing these details leads our coffee consultants to design coffee bars that are fast, fun, and functional. Our floor plan designs rely strongly on human psychology and elegant visual queues to create fluid, instinctual, striking coffee experiences.
Once we’ve decided on your coffee bar layout, and established your bar design, we'll discuss the different strategies for customer flow and how your bar design will solve your location and customer needs. Offering holistic approach to your coffee business with operational efficiency, function, aesthetic, and flow of your coffee bar. Focusing on the logistics of your menu, equipment, workflow, storage, ergonomic placement of key equipment, refrigeration, customer traffic patterns, and overall cafe design and feel.
A great coffee bar is in the details. We help you design your cafe vision with intention and know-how to create your dream coffee shop with knowledge and heart.