Map It Forward Middle East Podcast

This is the final episode of an eight-episode SWAPCAST between The Daily Coffee Pro by MAP IT FORWARD hosted by Lee Safar and The MAP IT FORWARD Middle East Podcast hosted by Sara Alali.

This is also the final episode of the podcast for 2021. The MAP IT FORWARD Podcast team will be taking a few weeks vacation and returning in late Jan 2022. The MAP IT FORWARD Podcast team, together with Lee Safar and Sara Alali would like to wish you a happy and safe holiday season and a successful year ahead in 2022.

In this episode of this SWAPCAST, Lee and Sara take a look at the clarity and confidence that came from Sara understanding the numbers involved in creating and running her cafe and how that clarity is helping her prepare for, and adapt to, the global inflationary environment of the next 24 months.

THAT Boutique Cafe has been a MAP IT FORWARD Consulting Client for over 12 months

This is the 7th of an eight-episode SWAPCAST between The Daily Coffee Pro by MAP IT FORWARD hosted by Lee Safar and The MAP IT FORWARD Middle East Podcast hosted by Sara Alali.

In this episode of this SWAPCAST, Sara and Lee go into the detailed process of hiring a team for Sara's new business, luxury boutique cafe @THATCafe.co based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The process includes a step-by-step account of how they hired a full team that was aligned with the values, mission, and vision of Sara's business in the middle of a labour shortage and pandemic.

THAT Boutique Cafe has been a MAP IT FORWARD Consulting Client for over 12 months

This is the 6th of an eight-episode SWAPCAST between The Daily Coffee Pro by MAP IT FORWARD hosted by Lee Safar and The MAP IT FORWARD Middle East Podcast hosted by Sara Alali.

In this episode of this SWAPCAST, Sara and Lee discuss the infrastructure planning that went into building the foundation of Sara's new business, luxury boutique cafe @THATCafe.co based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This planning included creating hiring plans, inventory plans, customer acquisition plans, sales plans, financial forecasting, and much much more.

THAT Boutique Cafe has been a MAP IT FORWARD Consulting Client for over 12 months

This is the 5th of an eight-episode SWAPCAST between The Daily Coffee Pro by MAP IT FORWARD hosted by Lee Safar and The MAP IT FORWARD Middle East Podcast hosted by Sara Alali.

In this episode of this SWAPCAST, Sara and Lee explore how they created and developed a Customer Acquisition Plan for the launch of Sara's new business, Luxury boutique cafe @THATCafe.co based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. They discuss why having a clear understanding of who THAT's customers are, has made it easier to make most of the other decisions in the business.

THAT Boutique Cafe has been a MAP IT FORWARD Consulting Client for over 12 months

This is the 4th of an eight-episode SWAPCAST between The Daily Coffee Pro by MAP IT FORWARD hosted by Lee Safar and The MAP IT FORWARD Middle East Podcast hosted by Sara Alali.

In this episode of the SWAPCAST we explore the importance of defining culture in a business (which is more than just your work environment) no matter how small or large your team is. Sara gives us insight into how the culture of her cafe @THATcafe.com was been structured from the foundational company vision of "Celebrating People".

THAT Boutique Cafe has been a MAP IT FORWARD Consulting Client for over 12 months.

This is the 3rd of an eight-episode SWAPCAST between The Daily Coffee Pro by MAP IT FORWARD hosted by Lee Safar and The MAP IT FORWARD Middle East Podcast hosted by Sara Alali.

In this episode of the SWAPCAST, Sara explains the process of translating each of the defined values that stem from "Celebrating People" for her boutique luxury cafe @THATCafe.co in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia into real-life actions that demonstrated to all stakeholders what the values of the company stood for.

THAT Boutique Cafe has been a MAP IT FORWARD Consulting Client for over 12 months.

This is the 2nd of an eight-episode SWAPCAST between The Daily Coffee Pro by MAP IT FORWARD hosted by Lee Safar and The MAP IT FORWARD Middle East Podcast hosted by Sara Alali.

In this episode of the SWAPCAST, Sara goes into detail about the process required to establish the building blocks, i.e. the vision, mission, and values, of her business - boutique luxury cafe, @THATcafe.co, in Riyadh Saudi Arabia. Sara and Lee discuss how the foundational mission, “Celebrating People” became a guiding principle for making decisions about fit-out, supply chain, staffing, and more. They also discussed how this statement was challenged building out a cafe during a pandemic.

This is the first of an eight-episode SWAPCAST between The Daily Coffee Pro by MAP IT FORWARD hosted by Lee Safar and The MAP IT FORWARD Middle East Podcast hosted by Sara Alali.

Sara is getting ready to open her new luxurious cafe, THAT @thatcafe.co Cafe in the booming specialty coffee scene of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in early January 2022. Over these eight episodes, we’ll explore the journey Sara took deciding to build a world-class cafe right before the world went into lockdown at the beginning of 2020 and the challenges that come along with each decision as the economic fallout from the pandemic start to put a strain on the coffee value chain.

In this episode of the podcast, Sara and Lee discuss how Sara went from deciding to open a cafe in 2013 to finding the right business model that lead to finally building her cafe that will open in January 2022.