Hi, I am Greta Avakyan, a Master student from KEDGE Business School in Marseille; France; doing a marketing research on the barista community as part of a class assignment. I am therefore looking for people that would be willing to answer a few questions;

Such as why you enjoy this community, or how and when you joined the community?

This would really help me out in my project:

Thank you for your help!

Hi Rita!
Thanks so much for sharing your parent's kind thoughts.I don't onto BarX nearly as much as I used to or should. Hope to meet you someday soon.
Cheers!
David

So I just sent you some great coffee in the mail. The costa rican was roasted for spro. The the shop here we are pulling everything on lm tripple baskets. We tried the CR yesterday at 198 and was lacking a lot. Today we are pulling it at 201 and it is amazing. We are updosing to aroun. 21 or 22 grams and 24- 25 seconds at about an ounce and a half. A lot of that is crema becuase we are pulling on bottomless pf. Good luck and enjoy! If you have any questions the number is on the bag.

we just got our coe nicaragua in. so we are going to roast that up in november and do the coe costa rica as so espresso i'll send you a lbs of both in about a week. let me know what you think.

It was really nice to meet you! You should send me your address. I Would love to send some coffee. We just roasted up some coe costa rican.

Of course I don't mind, I intended for it to create conversation. Hopefully it will fuel discussion in some smaller cafes that may not even be aware that there is a difference between commodity and non-commodity coffee. I think the hardest part is creating these discussion without the pretension, but if we can create curiosity in the consumer then they will ask questions of us.
A side note, looking at your picture and reading that you were once with Alterra I'm going to have to say that we met once when I was in with Vick.

dang lady, your to nice. It was a pleasure and then some to have your company. You know where to go for a cup the next time you come through Chicago....

yo.
just thought i'd say hi. bummed i couldn't get out to pdx. oh well. another time.
gonna be in atl for wbc?
be well, short shot.
peace j

wait, wait - you have a bicycle i can borrow, really??

Hey Rita! I was looking up the address for Albina Press for next week - which local do you work at? Are ya'll hosting any shin-digs? Looking forward to seeing you again - maybe we'll even judge together this time. And I'm counting on it not being so frigidly cold.

Hi Rita,

I liked the cool tamper. Care to share anything about the image on the handle?

it was awesome hanging out with and starting 2009 off good! hope to see you again sooner than later...

Yeah! Yes, It feels like working in a Candy Store.

I love it.

Rita---

good to bump in to you today at the ABC in PDX.

see you in Tacoma?

---michael

hey there! i am in LA right now. haven't been to that bottle barn yet but sounds intriguing. let's chat soon, sorry so crazy.....

No way, that is crazy and will be a big change for a lot of people as most use marzocco's at their respective shops!

Not complaining though. I am headed over to backporch today. I will grab you some SO spro if they have it. If not I will grab something good.

I had a great time Tuesday night. Happy birthday again and thanks for throwing a great party.

Rita,
Thanks for all your help this past week at ABCS...your direction provided me great insight and I look forward to pulling hundreds and hundreds of great shots!!!