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New York, NY (PRWEB) March 12, 2008

Jalima Coffee (http://www.jalimacoffee.com/) in conjunction with Gillies Coffee will host a coffee cupping at the upcoming third annual Coffee and Tea Festival at the Metropolitan Pavilion in NYC on April 12-13, 2008. Attendees will experience a once in a lifetime opportunity to witness a coffee cupping; something quite spectacular, something that most consumers have never, ever seen.

On Sunday, April 13th, 2008, Marcela A. Zuchovicki of Jalima Coffee will lead an interactive coffee cupping and tasting session at the 3rd annual Coffee and Tea Festival NYC. Similar to wine tasting, and rarely seen in public, cupping allows the participant to evaluate and compare different coffees on five major characteristics: flavor, acidity, aftertaste, fragrance, and body.

Ms. Zuchovicki, seen recently on the Food Network hit show Unwrapped: Caffeinated will be using some of the very best coffees from around the world, including beans from Africa, Indonesia, Mexico, Hawaii, and others. This demo will deliver a rare opportunity for consumers to see what goes on behind their favorite cup of Joe.

The two day festival will feature everything related to coffee and tea and will offer attendees the opportunity to sample different coffees and teas from around the world. Jalima Coffee was started 3 years ago by three women and lifelong friends, each professionally successful and all at a crossroad looking for a new challenge. A business idea was launched to start a specialty coffee venture to capture the most delicious flavors in the world: high altitude, organically grown coffee, bird friendly from the cloud forests of Mexico and to build a company committed to bio-diversity: social responsibility, economic sustainability and support of preservation of ecological projects and the environment.

Since August of 2005, the Jalimas (Janet, Libe and Marcela) have placed their line of exceptional 100% Arabica specialty coffees in approximately 250 specialty stores and gourmet food markets throughout Northeast, Florida, and the Mid Atlantic region of the USA. Jalima Coffee products can be found in some of the renowned gourmet food destinations in New York City such as Amish Markets, Garden of Eden, Georgia’s Bake Shop and Zabar’s in New York City; all 26 King’s Super Markets in New Jersey; some of the Whole Foods Markets in VA, MD, DC, OH, and specialty stores in the west coast of Florida to mention a few.

Since 2006 Jalima Coffee has been available at Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/105-9716309-8166819?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Jalima+Coffee&x=22&y=18) and through www.jalimacoffee.com, making Jalima Coffee available anywhere in the U.S. and beyond. Through the company’s website and internet catalog, Jalima Coffee is also sold to members of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities at over 400 member campuses and their students, faculty, staff and alumni in the US. Quite an impressive start for the new kid on the block!

To compete with the big guys, naturally, no small order but these three women entrepreneurs will accept nothing less. Their focus these days is on building brand awareness, loyalty and expansion of their products, origins and distribution network regionally and nationally. Making Jalima Coffee a household name in the competitive specialty coffee industry will take unyielding belief in their product, their mission and themselves.

Tickets are on sale now for the 3rd Annual Coffee & Tea Festival: NYC will help raise funds and awareness for Cup for Education, the official charity of the event. Cup for Education helps the poor and rural coffee communities of Central and Latin America build schools within their communities and provide the basic tools needed to educate the future generations of coffee farmers. Visit www.coffeeandteafestival.com for more details. Limited exhibitor opportunities remain. Inquiries should be made immediately to 631-940-7290.

Jalima Coffee plans to continue its outreach to consumers through exhibitions and seminars to raise awareness of not only the exceptional quality of high altitude Mexican arabica coffees, but also the important mission of social and environmental responsibility in the coffee industry. Jalima Coffee (www.jalimacoffee.com) was conceptualized in December 2004. Since its inception, Jalima has partnered with several organizations to support social, sustainable, educational and ecological projects such as the El Triunfo Conservation Fund in Chiapas, Mexico, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) to support their educational initiatives, Andares, A.B.P. that provides work opportunities for the disadvantaged, and many others. Jalima Coffee has a line of three biodiverse coffee products from Mexico: Jalima Certified Organic Coffee from Chiapas, and H&A Gourmet Coffee, Regular and Decaffeinated from Veracruz.

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Allison Lonsdale’s song about the medieval Tibetan Buddhist sage Milarepa…as Tom Petty might imagine him. Recorded at Lestat’s Coffeehouse in San Diego on December 20, 2008 by Teri Bertram. More info and concert dates: www.allisonlonsdale.com Harmony by Eben Brooks www.ebenbrooks.com Invite Them In © Allison Lonsdale 2007 Sit down and have a cup of coffee With your firm conviction that they’re out to get you Sit down and have a cigarette with your awful fear of death I saw Milarepa at the all-night diner sharing a table with his personal demons He said You’ve got to invite them in with compassion on your breath Stop running away, ’cause nobody runs as fast as pain and sorrow Stop pushing away, you’re just making it hard Stop putting it off, ’cause it’ll be back to kick your ass tomorrow Breathe in, breathe out, let down your guard Sit down and start shooting the shit With the fear that you’ll never measure up to your ideals Sit down and have a bottle of beer with the ache of all you’ve lost I saw Milarepa at the coffee house having a Danish with his hurts and hatreds He said You’ve got to invite them in, or you pay ten times the cost Stop running away, ’cause nobody runs as fast as fear and loathing Stop pushing away, you’re just making it worse Stop putting it off, cause it’ll be back again in different clothing Just pop the clutch and go into reverse Invite them in and let them be there while you learn to stand it Invite them in and give them room to stomp and shout …
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Before starting with a coffee shop, it is a must to create a business plan which will help in running the coffee shop business in an expedient manner.

The business plan of a coffee shop should begin with how the owner proposes to manage the day to day operations of the coffee shop which includes interacting with the customers, dealing with the suppliers of stock material, management of financial records etc.

The next part of the business plan should consist of all the equipments and tools required to run a coffee shop along with handling of their daily operations and their maintenance which also includes all kinds of preventive maintenance as well.

The most important part of the business plan for the coffee shop is the financial aspect of it. The finances can be managed by the individual alone or a loan can be taken from the bank. Usually the loan officer asks for a cost effective and efficient business plan which shows the estimated growth of the investment made by the bank.

Also the business plan should include the location of the coffee shop. Usually people prefer to set up a coffee shop in their homes as they start the business in order to reduce the starting the costs. Buildings or shops can also be rented or leased or else if the owner has capital, he or she can also opt to buy a building.

Before starting the business, it is imperative to do a complete and thorough research about the coffee shop business.

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Winding Up A Company

In these hard economic times business is very hard. If you are a company director looking for a bit of advice because your coffee shop business is struggling, you have come to the right place. I have created many articles which try to help a director take the right steps in either closing or liquidating a business or pre-packing a sale and starting again.

Firstly if your coffee shop company is insolvent you have a duty as a director to close the company and not incur any further debt, unless you can be pretty sure that you can put in place a rescue plan to turn that business around. If you can’t them you need to liquidate the company yourself or take professional advice on how best to close the business in an orderly fashion.

By far the most popular choice is to engage an insolvency practitioner to call a meeting of creditors on your behalf, prepare the statement of affairs, hold the meeting and then deal with all the procedural aspects of liquidation necessary to make sure all creditors now what is going on and how they can participate in any dividend. This is called a CVL or creditors voluntary liquidation.

There is a fee for all this and generally it will be about £5000 whoever you use around the country. There are some advertisements for liquidations at less than this but by the time all costs are accounted for, it will still come in at about the same sum.

These costs can come out of the assets of the coffee shop company and indeed many businesses do have just enough assets or cash to take this final step. For many businesses, the central core of what the business does is still profitable and so often directors will want to continue to trade. This is easily possible and a sale of assets can be arranged to a new company and a lease re-assigned by a landlord, which often leaves the new company trading on in the same line of work from the same premises.

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