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It’s Your Wedding, Dear | Customized Coffee Bar

Espresso Yourself at your Wedding with Customized Coffee Bar Offerings

We love weddings!

We love the distinctiveness of each wedding and their similarities. The celebration of a life journey that starts with a party with family and friends. A vow, a dance, a toast, a meal…cake and coffee.

When we talk to couples about their selections for Specialty Beverages at their reception, or rehearsal dinner…or after wedding brunch…we like to design another unique element for them to enjoy with their guests.

One way is with customized designs for their cups, just a little detail, inexpensive and fun.

Customize Your Coffee Bar Beverages

Another way to customize your wedding for guests is with signature drinks and customized menus.

Shea & Tyler’s wedding (#finallyPooledtogether), had our Italian Cream Soda & Cold Brew Coffee bar. Tyler’s favorite drink was the Strawberry Cheesecake Soda and Shea featured a Cold Brew Coffee with caramel and almond milk.

Their favorites were by far the most selected drinks of the evening!

Espresso Bar at the Nasher Sculpture Center

One of my favorite weddings so far this year was Samantha and John Bush’s at the beautiful Nasher Sculpture Center. It was the most perfect weather for sipping lattes from our Espresso Bar and dancing to a live band under the stars and Dallas Skyline.

Personal Taste Testing for Menu Creation

Are you wondering what kind of flavor pairings we offer that you would love to add to your customized menu? We do personal tastings; for the bride and groom, the bride’s parents, for whoever you wish to help taste the best coffee combos ever (max of 4!) We explore flavor combinations, test taste espresso, and more.

Here are just a few drinks that have been concocted in our brainstorming taste testings:

The Modern English Toffee Latte
Coffee Kindred Spirits Pumpkin Pie Latte (bride & groom named!)
Snickerdoodle
Purple Zebra
Lavender Chai
Lavender Mocha
Strawberry Cheesecake Italian Soda (Tyler’s fav!)

This coffee connection starts in our hipster home office (ha!) and continues through to the special day.

Whether a micro wedding or full-blown soiree, you need a custom latte! Your guests will so enjoy connecting with you by ordering your favorite!

Cheers!

Unique Drive By Coffee Events in a COVID World

Lattes on Location | More Unique Events in a COVID World

When COVID shut down the world, we, like everyone came to a screeching halt.

The Latte Mobile and the espresso machines got cleaned and rested for longer than they’ve ever rested before. The Northplace Coffee Shop in Northplace Church closed with the rest of the church.

We rested. We watched. We waited.

This new experience isn’t news now, everybody has been impacted in one way or another. But I LOVE the creative ways people have risen with ideas to still connect in a distance setting.

Our First COVID Coffee Event was for Essential Workers

(This was before the mask mandates or protocol put into place.)

Our first event after COVID hit was a new corporate client with essential workers. As you can see Fisher Investments is a Best Place to work company…treating their hard working Advisors and team to Lattes on a regular basis is evidence. So is the poster behind the espresso bar.

It’s easy to keep 6 feet between us and our client’s guests or employees with our set up. A lot of our corporate clients are working from home now, but we look forward to being back in the offices when they need us.

Coffee Bars Outside at Apartment Communities

The next thing we started doing a lot of was connecting with and serving at several different apartment communities. It was beautiful spring weather then and we drew people out of their apartments for lattes, hot chocolates, and puppaccinos!

Drive By Coffees at Schools

We did some drive by coffees at some Primrose Schools before Mother’s Day! These creative directors made ways to treat the mom’s in front of the school and in the parking lot.

Drive Through Cold Drinks for Systemware’s Family Day Project

One of the more recent events that was one of the most creative, was another kind of a drive by event. This time the Corporate client, Systemware implemented the professional help of a planner: Planning MODE, who brought us in on a drive through Family Day project. The employees have been working from home, but there still needs to be Family Day, right?

Planning MODE created boxes for each employee to pick up with different activities for them to do, and consume. We provided iced coffee, lemonade, and other cold drinks as they drove up.

I hope more of our corporate clients do this! These boxes of fun were like the subscription boxes everyone gets so excited about.

As challenging as these days were, these businesses recreated their normal ways of appreciating their clients and guests and we were so happy to help in the creation of the memories. And the delight of the taste buds.

So I hope you’ve been inspired to continue being creative with whatever you can do.

Show your people you appreciate them.
And when possible, use coffee.

Surviving COVID-19 with a Mobile Coffee Bar Business

I know everybody is saying how much this year sucks.

I’m reluctant to label it that way, because, although it has a lot of downsides (with lower lows than can be measured) there are so many bright sides to it!

We have definitely been one of those businesses that were impacted by the quarantine. Being an events-based business that also runs a coffee shop in a church – as you can imagine, much of our regular income went on hiatus.

We had 31 events in January and 30 events in February, not counting the coffee shop business in Northplace Church. In March and April, we had three events each. May started to pick up (ten espresso bars) with some outdoor pop-up shop style connection events. Two were with Primrose Schools, three were with Apartment Life teams, and a couple of corporate comebacks, as well as a couple of hospitals.

Those outdoor events were lovely, the best time of year for social distancing under the cool Texas sky. Perfect temps will happen again in, I don’t know, October?

Overcoming the Challenge of Serving in the Texas Heat

Being outside serving in the heat can cause “technical” difficulties when you are making espresso. Humidity will change the consistency of the beans coming through the grinder and the way the espresso is pulled from the espresso machine. It makes the calibration process (adjusting the grind and the tamping of the ground beans) an ongoing process during an event. We do this to make sure the coffee consistently tastes its best.

Making Coffee out of Beans (Not Lemons!)

But the change in schedule also brought a new shift to Lattes On Location’s social presence, by allowing me the opportunity to start a regular Latte Lady Live event on Facebook and IGTV. I go live on Fridays at 10 a.m!

Join us for one of our REGULAR live events on social media!

WHY?

They are short! 15 minutes or less!
We are showing different ways to brew good coffee at home.
Hear about coffee trends and what I think of them.
We feature a different Texas Roaster once a month, teaming up with Texas Coffee Club! (Awesome coffee subscription service)
Giveaways once a month (who doesn’t love a good giveaway?)
Coffee shop reviews live once a month.
Occasional guests, just last month DJ Chris spun tunes while I did latte art.

What would you like to see? Do you have coffee questions I can help you with? DFW Coffee shops I should review and promote? Leave us a comment here or reach out on Facebook or Instagram.

Guess what we are up to this month? Graduation parties every weekend!