A short word from our Management Team

Good evening Barista Blend bloggers.   Once again our management team has been hard at work to make your experience at Barista Blend better still.  Recently our accounting department has acquired a new SaaS cloud service, Biz Automation.   

 What does that mean and how does that affect me you ask? 

                Well you’ve asked the right question!   

Through our newly implemented system Barista Blend can now keep better track of your various credit/debit cards and your credit terms,  speed up your wait time for your coffee, increase efficiency in the supply chain thus providing you with better quality and more variety, and keep in better touch with our customers via our synchronized email accounts.  

 

Biz Automation provides the best quality accounting services for small up and coming businesses so that we can continue to provide you with the best quality cup of coffee around.  Its 95% service availability rate and quick system response time relieves us of what used to be hours of work to mere minutes allowing us to focus on what matters most, you our customers and your needs.

Our Suppliers

Many of you may be wondering where we get our supplies from. This question has many, many answers. To begin, our coffee beans are imported 3 times a week from a plantation in Quindio, Columbia. We have built a great relationship with them, and we can always count on our shipments. Just south of Columbia is where we get our rich sugarcane. A private company is Brazil delievers sugarcane to our store at least twice a month. To the left of Brazil is Chile, where we get our delicious Kiwis. On othe other side of the world is Oman, where we get our fresh coconuts. The humidity in Oman is just right and allows the coconuts to harvest perfectly. 

Not everything on our menu is imported from foreign lands. In fact, most of our supplies is grow right here in the United States!The pinapples that are used in most tropical coffees and smoothies come directly from our pinapple farm in Maui. Out in California, you may see strawberries fields forever, that is why we can always rely on quality strawberries from California. The oranges that are included in all citrus flavors are grown in Florida. All of our coffee cups and paper products are produced by PrintGlobe, located in the U.S. We can rely on them to fit our logo on whatever kind of product that we need. Our shipping partner in the United States is UPS. Their quick and on time deliveries give us one less thing to worry about.

Social Media Traffic

With social networking taking over our days and lives, we at Barista Blend thought it is a great time to capitalize on this.  Not only do we blog here, but you can add us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.

We have been watching our traffic on this site grow since we have opened thanks to all of you!  Keep on promoting your new favorite coffee shop.  Take some pictures and tag us on Instagram, tell everyone you are here on FourSquare.  The more people that hear about us, the better for everyone.

We will be coming up with a few promotions, if we reach a certain amount views in a day, or in a week, we will have a special discount the next day.  Also, if you have a site directing hits our way, we will be sure to reward you handsomely!

Hopeful we will see you soon and give you some of your favorite drinks around. (And all of your friends)

New Technology

We wish to thank the viewers of our blog with a great big smile!

And a 20% discount for any drink from Barista Blend via our website.  Barista Blend is striving to reach more customers with a very customizable menu and greater convenience.  You are now able to order any drink from our website and have it ready to pick up at the nearest Barista Blend location.  Please create a Barista account and order today!

Gotta Get Them Beans

                As a proud producer of exotic beverages and snacks, we at Barista Blend pride ourselves on providing our customers with the freshest coffee beans, fruits and snacks.  It is our goal to ensure that every cup of coffee is made with only the best ingredients.  We promise our customers great quality coffee and to up keep that promise we make sure to work with the best supplies.

                It is very important to us at Barista Blend to receive our products to make your coffee only from the most reliable suppliers.  From our strawberry farmers to coffee farmers to cake makers, we strive to have great relationships within our organization to provide you the best cup of coffee.  Every day we consistently check to make sure fruits, coffee beans and more are picked at their ripest and sent over to our shops in record time.  We also make sure our cleanliness is next to godliness in all of our means of transportation, and storage.  We take the best possible care of our products to give you the best cup of coffee. 

A Word on Security…

            In order to better serve our customers and send money-saving coupons, we save your order history and address into our online database. However, do not worry; your information is safe and secure. Firstly, we only keep information that we absolutely need such as your orders and address. We do not keep your credit card number or other payment methods. Therefore, there is no need to worry about getting your credit card number stolen. Secondly, our IT manager has installed firewalls on our database to ensure no one hacks into our files. All of our customer information is securely stored with in the firewall protected network, preventing theft. Next, we have a string of number and letter combination passwords that are impossible to guess. We are also changing passwords every two months to make sure previous employees cannot reenter the system. Only employees that mail coupons and analyze your order history are allowed to enter the database. Therefore, access is restricted to every other employee. Lastly, in order to prevent theft, there are no hard copies of our database. Even if somebody was to break into our office, there would not be a hard copy of our database to steal. Therefore, at Barista Blend your information is safe and secure.    

There is no competition

With coffee shops on every other corner these days, we know there is plenty of competition.  This competition was not alleviated when we opened our new location in New York City.

However, we at Barista Blend know that there truly is no competition to our high quality tropical flavors, and top of the line customer service.  To help you, the customer, see this to be true we are opening our doors to the Barista Blend Club.

You can simply ask for a frequent buyers card with any purchase.  With every 5 drinks purchased the 6th is on the house!  Not only that, but if you take the 30 seconds to sign up (which can now be down quickly with our business card scanners) not only will your 6th coffee be on us, but your very first mouth watering beverage as a new member of the Barista Blend Club will be covered for you by yours truly. Barsita Blend!

 So please, come by soon to become a member and see why, now more than ever, their is NO substitute to the Barista Blend beverages!

New Location in New York

 

          As our friends and loyal customers leave university city to pursue their dreams they miss the exciting drinks and relaxing atmosphere of Barista Blend.  We have received many heartfelt comments and suggestions from our friends and feel that it is now time to expand.  Looking at the demographics of our customers we have decided that New York is a great place to be.  It enables us at Barista Blend to continue to be the adventure away from the bland and the tropical retreat away from the city.

 

 

          Yet we are a coffee shop that will constantly adapt and change with our flavors and drinks.  What will the New York Branch bring?  It will bring an even greater variety of drinks as we cater to the professionals in the city.  Now executives, managers, and staff can now relax together over a Tropic Freeze (Blue fruit punch, blueberry blend) or negotiate a deal over a lemon ice pop game.  We are a place that creates memories and brings people together to create a unique family.  

 

          From the city of brotherly love comes a new experience.  So New Yorkers, visit our Barista Blend branch!  We will strive to meet your expectations with our quality service and avant-guarde products.  At Barista Blend, it is always time for something new. 

Iced Caramel Coffee

 Tired of waiting in line 10 to 20 minutes for your coffee?

 Well no more!  Thanks to Barista Blend’s 8 touch screen’s placing your order has never been simpler.  You can now order, grab and go in no more than 10 minutes.  You simply come in, are greeted by our welcoming employees, type your order in the touch screen with your name and pay upon receiving your drink.

Strawberry Sunset Smoothie

Getting your cup of coffee has never been a more simple and heartwarming experience than at Barista Blend.  We greatly value our customers and strive to give you the best coffee cups, smoothies, tea drinks and more.  It is our goal to provide you with the quality service you deserve and the coffee you love, in the time you need it.