{"id":22413,"date":"2019-07-31T08:42:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T06:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/?p=22413"},"modified":"2019-07-26T12:45:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T10:45:56","slug":"espresso-academy-happycoffeepeople-molly-and-chris-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/en\/happycoffeepeople\/espresso-academy-happycoffeepeople-molly-and-chris-allen\/","title":{"rendered":"Espresso Academy #Happycoffeepeople, Molly and Chris Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Two amazing #Happycoffepeople, today we interview Molly and Chris from Cleeveland, USA that are going to open theys brand new roastery and Coffee Shop &#8220;Ready Set&#8221; with the support of Espresso Academy&#8217;s Team.<\/h3>\n<h4>Why did you attend the Espresso academy courses?<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Molly-<\/strong> After designing a coffee bar I was interested in working in the industry and worked at 2 separate locations.\u00a0 <strong>I wanted to learn more about coffee<\/strong> and knew I had to find classes to get training beyond what was offered where I worked in order <strong>to open my own coffee bar<\/strong>.\u00a0 I went online to look for a place that offered a wide variety of classes and certification.\u00a0 The Espresso Academy offered the <a href=\"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/en\/our-courses\/five-days-coffee-route\/\"><strong>One Week Coffee Route<\/strong> <\/a>where we could get an overview of everything.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t find anything else like it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris-<\/strong>\u00a0 We\u00a0attended the One Week Coffee Route in the Fall of 2018.\u00a0 I also had additional instruction in July of 2019.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<style type='text\/css'>\n\t\t\t\t#sc_gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#sc_gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\t\twidth: 33.33%;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#sc_gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t\/* see sc_gallery() in functions\/theme-shortcodes.php *\/\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='sc_gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-22413 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-large  element_classes gallery-default'><dl class='gallery-item'  data-title='e33f9010-8a3f-4b5b-9125-5fd5e1d8e0dd' data-description=''><div class='gallery-item-wrapper'>\n\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/en\/happycoffeepeople\/espresso-academy-happycoffeepeople-molly-and-chris-allen\/attachment\/e33f9010-8a3f-4b5b-9125-5fd5e1d8e0dd-2\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"852\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/e33f9010-8a3f-4b5b-9125-5fd5e1d8e0dd-852x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/e33f9010-8a3f-4b5b-9125-5fd5e1d8e0dd-852x1024.jpg 852w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/e33f9010-8a3f-4b5b-9125-5fd5e1d8e0dd-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/e33f9010-8a3f-4b5b-9125-5fd5e1d8e0dd-768x923.jpg 768w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/e33f9010-8a3f-4b5b-9125-5fd5e1d8e0dd-122x146.jpg 122w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/e33f9010-8a3f-4b5b-9125-5fd5e1d8e0dd-42x50.jpg 42w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/e33f9010-8a3f-4b5b-9125-5fd5e1d8e0dd-62x75.jpg 62w\" sizes=\"(max-width:767px) 700px, (max-width:852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption'>\n\t\t\t\t\tMolly and Chris\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/div><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'  data-title='79692c8d-c0f8-483c-8def-1c9f6d295d4d' data-description=''><div class='gallery-item-wrapper'>\n\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/en\/happycoffeepeople\/espresso-academy-happycoffeepeople-molly-and-chris-allen\/attachment\/79692c8d-c0f8-483c-8def-1c9f6d295d4d-2\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/79692c8d-c0f8-483c-8def-1c9f6d295d4d-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/79692c8d-c0f8-483c-8def-1c9f6d295d4d-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/79692c8d-c0f8-483c-8def-1c9f6d295d4d-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/79692c8d-c0f8-483c-8def-1c9f6d295d4d-110x146.jpg 110w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/79692c8d-c0f8-483c-8def-1c9f6d295d4d-38x50.jpg 38w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/79692c8d-c0f8-483c-8def-1c9f6d295d4d-56x75.jpg 56w\" sizes=\"(max-width:767px) 700px, (max-width:768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption'>\n\t\t\t\t\tBarista training with Ilaria\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/div><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'  data-title='e4fce71e-190b-4204-8ba9-c6e6eee4f5ef' data-description=''><div class='gallery-item-wrapper'>\n\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/en\/happycoffeepeople\/espresso-academy-happycoffeepeople-molly-and-chris-allen\/attachment\/e4fce71e-190b-4204-8ba9-c6e6eee4f5ef-2\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/e4fce71e-190b-4204-8ba9-c6e6eee4f5ef-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/e4fce71e-190b-4204-8ba9-c6e6eee4f5ef-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/e4fce71e-190b-4204-8ba9-c6e6eee4f5ef-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/e4fce71e-190b-4204-8ba9-c6e6eee4f5ef-110x146.jpg 110w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/e4fce71e-190b-4204-8ba9-c6e6eee4f5ef-38x50.jpg 38w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/e4fce71e-190b-4204-8ba9-c6e6eee4f5ef-56x75.jpg 56w\" sizes=\"(max-width:767px) 700px, (max-width:768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption'>\n\t\t\t\t\tEspresso Academy&#8217;s Gate\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/div><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4>\u00a03 words to describe the school?<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Molly<\/strong> &#8211; Professional, thorough, passionate<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Informative, Inspiring, Fun<\/p>\n<h4>&#8230;.3 more<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Molly &#8211;<\/strong> Exciting, intense, fun<\/p>\n<h4>Useful for your career&#8230;<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Molly &#8211; I was working as a barista and needed more training<\/strong> if I was going to open my own shop. In choosing the Espresso Academy I was hoping to further my understanding of coffee to be a better barista and be able to train future employees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I found was so much more<\/strong>.\u00a0 I realized how much there is to learn and all the career opportunities there are involving specialty coffee.\u00a0 <strong>I had never considered coffee roasting, but after the roasting class with Marco, I knew we had to roast coffee.\u00a0<\/strong> Less than a year of attending the Espresso Academy, we now have a roaster, signed a lease, and feel confident that we are on our way to having a successful business.\u00a0 \u00a0I credit so much of this to all the professional instructors that trained us &#8211; from<strong> coffee management, sensory, brewing, barista skills and roasting<\/strong>.\u00a0 They all are\u00a0 professional in their field and obviously have a passion for what they do and a love for teaching others.<\/p>\n<p>We are currently <strong>roasting coffee in a temporary space<\/strong> and planning the design of our coffee bar which is currently under construction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris &#8211;<\/strong> I\u00a0\u00a0had attended the Academy with little knowledge in the field of coffee.\u00a0 So everything I learned was new and exciting to me. The courses I took were my introduction into the world of specialty coffee and inspired me to start a new career in the field.\u00a0 The instructors not only only were knowledgable, but experienced in the field in so many areas<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<style type='text\/css'>\n\t\t\t\t#sc_gallery-2 {\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#sc_gallery-2 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\t\twidth: 33.33%;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#sc_gallery-2 img {\n\t\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t\/* see sc_gallery() in functions\/theme-shortcodes.php *\/\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='sc_gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-22413 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-large  element_classes gallery-default'><dl class='gallery-item'  data-title='3cb6ab77-92f3-42ef-be24-807440443545' data-description=''><div class='gallery-item-wrapper'>\n\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a 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https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3cb6ab77-92f3-42ef-be24-807440443545-116x75.jpg 116w\" sizes=\"(max-width:767px) 700px, (max-width:1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption'>\n\t\t\t\t\tCupping with Robert&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/div><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'  data-title='c02d8306-a99e-4e10-8f5a-b823d2c4df52' data-description=''><div class='gallery-item-wrapper'>\n\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/en\/happycoffeepeople\/espresso-academy-happycoffeepeople-molly-and-chris-allen\/attachment\/c02d8306-a99e-4e10-8f5a-b823d2c4df52-2\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/c02d8306-a99e-4e10-8f5a-b823d2c4df52-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" 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fun!\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/div><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'  data-title='5cc0d35c-0713-46fd-b8a8-14b70eb9cf66' data-description=''><div class='gallery-item-wrapper'>\n\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/en\/happycoffeepeople\/espresso-academy-happycoffeepeople-molly-and-chris-allen\/attachment\/5cc0d35c-0713-46fd-b8a8-14b70eb9cf66-2\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"802\" src=\"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/5cc0d35c-0713-46fd-b8a8-14b70eb9cf66-1024x802.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/5cc0d35c-0713-46fd-b8a8-14b70eb9cf66-1024x802.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/5cc0d35c-0713-46fd-b8a8-14b70eb9cf66-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/5cc0d35c-0713-46fd-b8a8-14b70eb9cf66-768x601.jpg 768w, 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src=\"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/06582e56-dc24-4b22-85a3-bd7c34cb3c2c-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/06582e56-dc24-4b22-85a3-bd7c34cb3c2c-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/06582e56-dc24-4b22-85a3-bd7c34cb3c2c-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/06582e56-dc24-4b22-85a3-bd7c34cb3c2c-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/06582e56-dc24-4b22-85a3-bd7c34cb3c2c-195x146.jpg 195w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/06582e56-dc24-4b22-85a3-bd7c34cb3c2c-50x38.jpg 50w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/06582e56-dc24-4b22-85a3-bd7c34cb3c2c-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/06582e56-dc24-4b22-85a3-bd7c34cb3c2c-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width:767px) 700px, (max-width:1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>Future projects?<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Molly-<\/strong> We are currently <strong>working on a San Franciscan 6lb roaster and plan to order a 25 lb roaster in 2020<\/strong>. We bought a small production canner and will be including a line of canned coffees that we hope to offer by the fall of 2019 and we are working to <strong>open our Coffee Bar<\/strong> at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, we plan to always have a <strong>collaboration with The Espresso Academy<\/strong> and look forward to more advanced classes and having them here again to work with us.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22551 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/0fd9d96a-2e0a-462b-b5f1-1c5fc37b02d6-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/0fd9d96a-2e0a-462b-b5f1-1c5fc37b02d6-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/0fd9d96a-2e0a-462b-b5f1-1c5fc37b02d6-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/0fd9d96a-2e0a-462b-b5f1-1c5fc37b02d6-97x146.jpg 97w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/0fd9d96a-2e0a-462b-b5f1-1c5fc37b02d6-33x50.jpg 33w, https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/0fd9d96a-2e0a-462b-b5f1-1c5fc37b02d6-50x75.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width:767px) 683px, 683px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two amazing #Happycoffepeople, today we interview Molly and Chris from Cleeveland, USA that are going to open theys brand new roastery and Coffee Shop &#8220;Ready Set&#8221;<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,24],"tags":[222],"class_list":["post-22413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happycoffeepeople","category-news-en","tag-happycoffeepeople"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espressoacademy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}