A few months back I was in Cupertino, and quite by chance found a truly outstanding coffee shop – Bitter and Sweet. Given I had unsuccessfully tried Yelp, Google and Foursquare for recommendations for decent coffee I was kind of stunned to walk a couple of blocks from the Cypress Hotel and come across a local indie place. Launched by Janice Chua in 2011 Bitter and Sweet is the real deal – celebrating great coffee but also coffee craft.
I have written before about Making Stars of Your Developers, in context of WS02, which has this wonderful /About/Team/Engineering page.
A confident business is not afraid to celebrate its people, and realises that “the team” is more than the executive staff. A confident business celebrates people and skill. A confident business does things like… have a blog called Meet Our Baristas.
This is Allen. He rocks.
My favourite comment from his Q&A?
What do you want to be when you grow up?
I want to be just like Janice.
When your employees want to be like you when they grow up, you’re doing something very right. Janice Chua- I salute you, and your staff. Bitter and Sweet is the only place in Cupertino to have a coffee.
disclosure: i am a mad coffee snob.
dave shields says:
August 30, 2012 at 3:51 pm
James,
As a Brit, you may appreciate this coffee story.
Sometime back in the 70’s I wandered into a coffee store in the Village, and bought a bag of beans.
As the owner was ringing up the purchase, I asked if there would be any sales tax.
He replied, “Nope. We settled that back in 1776.”
I then realized that no American politician had ever –or would ever –go on record as favoring a tax on coffee or tea.
jgovernor says:
September 4, 2012 at 5:36 pm
dave- wonderful, though i always thought apocryphal.