Posts in DCP - Carlos de la Torre
#562 Carlos de la Torre: Lessons Learned - 2 Years on

This is the final installment of a 6-episode series with Carlos de la Torre, owner of multiple coffee small businesses in Mexico City, Mexico, including cafes, roastery's, and a coffee subscription service. Carlos was also the Mexican National Barista Champion multiple times and competed and won other coffee competitions throughout his career.

In this series, we'll be discussing how the Mexican coffee industry has changed since March 2020 across the entire value chain.

In this episode, Carlos gives us insight into what the Mexican Coffee industry has learned about its practices and consumer behaviour throughout the pandemic as well as some of the adjustments that needed to be made.

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#561 Carlos de la Torre: Mexican Coffee Producers and the Pandemic

Please note, this was intented to be the final episode of the series but it went for 40 minutes so the episode was split into two parts and there will be one more episode in this series with Carlos de la Torre.

This is the 5th installment of a 6-episode series with Carlos de la Torre, owner of multiple coffee small businesses in Mexico City, Mexico, including cafes, roastery's, and a coffee subscription service. Carlos was also the Mexican National Barista Champion multiple times and competed and won other coffee competitions throughout his career.

In this series, we'll be discussing how the Mexican coffee industry, particularly producers, has changed since March 2020 across the entire value chain.

In this episode, Carlos gives us insight into how he observed the Mexican coffee industry react across the supply chain when the Pd'ic hit in March 2020 and the months that followed it.

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#560 Carlos de la Torre: Mexican Coffee Labour Force and the Pandemic

This is the 4th of a 6-episode series with Carlos de la Torre, owner of multiple coffee small businesses in Mexico City, Mexico, including cafes, roastery's, and a coffee subscription service. Carlos was also the Mexican National Barista Champion multiple times and competed and won other coffee competitions throughout his career.

In this series, we'll be discussing how the Mexican coffee industry has changed since March 2020 across the entire value chain.

In this episode, Carlos shares stories of how the employees in the Mexican coffee industry are fairing two years into the pandemic and the hard decisions that had to be made by the coffee labour force in response to bad actors.

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#559 Carlos de la Torre: Mexican Coffee Small Businesses and the Pandemic

This is the 3rd of a 6-episode series with Carlos de la Torre, owner of multiple coffee small businesses in Mexico City, Mexico, including cafes, roastery's, and a coffee subscription service. Carlos was also the Mexican National Barista Champion multiple times and competed and won other coffee competitions throughout his career.

In this series, we'll be discussing how the Mexican coffee industry has changed since March 2020 across the entire value chain.

In this episode, Carlos shares stories of how business owners in the Mexican coffee industry are fairing two years into the pandemic some of the seemingly unintended positive outcomes that are eventuating.

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#558 Carlos de la Torre: Mexican Coffee Industry Reacts to the Pandemic

This is the 2nd of a 6-episode series with Carlos de la Torre, owner of multiple coffee small businesses in Mexico City, Mexico, including cafes, roastery's, and a coffee subscription service. Carlos was also the Mexican National Barista Champion multiple times and competed and won other coffee competitions throughout his career.

In this series, we'll be discussing how the Mexican coffee industry has changed since March 2020 across the entire value chain.

In this episode, Carlos gives us insight into how he observed the Mexican coffee industry react across the supply chain when the Pd'ic hit in March 2020 and the months that followed it.

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#557 Carlos de la Torre: The Mexican Coffee Industry Pre 2020

This is the 1st of a 6-episode series with Carlos de la Torre, owner of multiple coffee small businesses in Mexico City, Mexico, including cafes, roastery's, and a coffee subscription service. Carlos was also the Mexican National Barista Champion multiple times and competed and won other coffee competitions throughout his career.

In this series, we'll be discussing how the Mexican coffee industry has changed since March 2020 across the entire value chain.

In this first episode, Carlos sets the landscape by explaining the state of the industry before the world changed in March 2020.

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