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Journal
Short pieces from Van about coffee sourcing, wholesale operations, Vietnamese coffee, and what’s actually landing in Bay Area kitchens. Updated as things happen — not on a content calendar.
A short list of questions Bay Area restaurant and cafe owners should be asking their coffee supplier this year, and what the right answers look like.
What goes into picking a Vietnamese robusta lot for restaurant service in San Francisco. Region, processing, density, and what we taste for before any of it ships to Bay Area kitchens.
It is not the beans. Same coffee, same condensed milk, same phin. The thing most people miss when they try to recreate restaurant ca phe sua da at home is the roast level and the grind setup.
A short guide for Bay Area pho restaurant owners on what to actually tell a wholesale coffee supplier on the first call. The five things that decide whether the relationship works.
How to size your weekly bean order, your hopper, and your delivery cadence based on actual cup volume. Math that beats guessing every time.
A four-week playbook for Bay Area cafes and restaurants moving from their current coffee supplier to a new one. How to keep the cup tasting right, the regulars happy, and the team on board.
A look at one of our long-running Bay Area cafe accounts. What the program looks like from the wholesale side, and what it took to dial it in.
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