Antony de Fina, the Caffeine fuelled offshore powerboat racer, four time Australian Champion Antony has been involved in the coffee industry for nearly 10 years, which came about through a chance meeting and a long standing family relationship, leading to importing Tonino Lamborghini Coffee from Italy.  Like many in this industry, it is meetings like […]

Ewen Litchfield is one of the quiet achievers of the Australian café industry. Introduced into the café world when he worked in the family business, which was a hotel and club hospitality supplier. He then moved from the family business to Kimberly Clark, looking after Sydney and regional NSW distribution. Ewen is now best known […]

 The secret to start-up business success In Australia, 30 per cent all new businesses fail before their first year is finished, leaving many budding entrepreneurs to pose the question: why do some succeed, while others struggle to realise their dream? The secret to business success is not as complicated as originally thought, says Phillip Di […]

Sengmany Sanoubane may think he has taken an indirect path to becoming a barista, however here at Café Culture we have witnessed many young champions evolve the same way. Working in hospitality to pay their way through university they never imagined finding real passion in a job they initially regarded as a means to a […]

This Dynamic 33 year old started working full time at the age of 16, as a receptionist in a recruitment agency. From their she fell into the field of accounting, starting out in Accounts Receivable and throughout her career she has worked in nearly every position that makes up an accounts department. In 2001 Karen […]

The most common source of fuel used to supply a coffee roaster with heat is gas. The Wood Roaster, however, roast their coffee beans the traditional way, exclusively over a fire fuelled by IronBark wood. The differences in the outcome are not what one might initially expect, so Café Culture caught up with Kim Loupis, […]

Café Culture has been working with Mark and Alana Beattie for over five years and has proudly watched the growth of their business and the way they have aligned themselves within the coffee industry. It is always nice to listen to Mark’s ideas and opinions on this fast moving industry, as he has come from […]

In 2011 the team at Café Culture realised that as we were growing so quickly, we needed a team of good people around us at our events that understood how we operated and networked with the industry.We put the word out that we needed a “Roadie”. We have had our faithful original roadie, Matthew O’Brien, […]

Patio Coffee Roastery ROASTER PROFILE Located on busy South Road, one of Adelaide’s most important arterial roads, you will find Coffee Craft. Although in the making for just over a decade, Coffee Craft was officially launched five years ago, emerging out of the need to service consumers with a one stop shop for all things […]

Account Manager – Ducale Coffee BARISTA PROFILE Muki Yeung recently took out first place at the Chux Barista Cup in Sydney. The competition brought a new format to the stage and some new talent to the fore. We now catch up with Muki for a quick chat to find out what and who has inspired […]