The Cafe Training Center

The Cafe Training Center

Learn the whole café business, not just the coffee.

A place dedicated to practical education for café entrepreneurs, coffee professionals, and everyone who dreams of building a meaningful career or business in the café industry. While we're starting with coffee, our vision reaches far beyond it.

Pioneer members join every online class free

The founder of The Cafe Training Center with a freshly brewed cup
Coffee dripping through a pourover into a glass server during a class
  • Coffee & Beverage
  • Food
  • Café Business
  • Food & Café Operations
  • Professional Development

Our vision

To become one of the Philippines' leading learning centers for café entrepreneurship, specialty coffee, food service, and café operations — by providing practical education that bridges the gap between learning and real-world application.

We aim to become a learning community where people can continue developing the skills needed to build better cafés, stronger businesses, and fulfilling careers; from coffee and food to finance, operations, leadership, customer experience, and beyond.

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What we teach

The complete café business.

The Cafe Training Center is built around the complete café business, not just coffee. Our programs will continue to expand to serve every part of the industry.

Coffee & Beverage

  • Espresso Fundamentals
  • Milk Steaming & Latte Art
  • Manual Brewing
  • Beverage Development
  • Coffee Quality
  • Specialty Coffee

Food

  • Café Menu Development
  • Best-Selling Café Food Items
  • Sandwiches & Light Meals
  • Breakfast Concepts
  • Cakes & Desserts for Cafés
  • Food Costing & Pricing
  • Food Preparation Workflow
  • Kitchen Operations for Small Cafés
  • Food Safety & Sanitation
  • Cooking & Baking Classes

Café Business

  • Business Planning
  • Startup Budgeting
  • Costing & Pricing
  • Business Finance
  • Marketing
  • Operations
  • Inventory Management
  • Systems & SOP Development
  • Customer Experience

Food & Café Operations

  • Menu Planning
  • Kitchen Workflow
  • Food Safety Fundamentals
  • Food & Beverage Integration
  • Café Efficiency

Professional Development

  • Professional Barista Skills
  • Leadership
  • Team Training
  • Career Development
  • Hospitality Excellence

Everything we teach is designed to be practical, hands-on, and immediately applicable.

Three participants brewing pourover side by side at the bar
An instructor guiding a participant through a pourover pour

Online workshops

Now open for joining.

Every session runs live, and every recording goes into the website afterwards for your unlimited access. Pioneer members join all of them free.

Opening a café is exciting, but it's also one of the easiest businesses to underestimate. Before you invest in equipment, sign a lease, or purchase your first espresso machine, make sure you're building on the right foundation.

In this workshop, we'll discuss the seven essential things every aspiring café owner should understand before opening, helping you avoid costly mistakes and make more confident business decisions from the very beginning.

You'll learn

  • Is a café the right business for you?
  • Choosing the right business model
  • Understanding your target market
  • Common startup mistakes
  • The importance of location
  • Planning before spending
  • Building a café that supports your goals

Templates you'll get after the class

  • Café Readiness Assessment
  • Personal Startup Action Plan
  • Clear roadmap before investing in your café
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“How much capital do I really need?”

It's one of the most frequently asked questions by aspiring café owners — and one of the hardest to answer without proper planning.

This workshop helps you estimate the investment required based on your chosen café concept and teaches you how to prepare a realistic startup budget before spending your first peso.

You'll learn

  • Startup capital requirements
  • Equipment budgeting
  • Renovation and setup costs
  • Working capital
  • Emergency fund planning
  • Budget-saving strategies

Expected output

  • Personalized Startup Budget
  • Capital Requirement Estimate
  • Café Startup Budget Worksheet
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Many café owners price their products based on competitors or what “feels right.”

Learn a simple and practical pricing system that allows you to confidently price your menu while ensuring your café remains sustainable and profitable.

You'll learn

  • Costing fundamentals
  • Markup vs. Margin
  • Hidden costs
  • Pricing psychology
  • When it's time to increase prices
  • Avoiding underpricing

Expected output

  • Pricing Calculator
  • Selling Price Worksheet
  • Pricing Review Checklist
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A good menu doesn't just look attractive — it helps customers decide faster, increases average spending, and improves profitability.

Whether you're creating your first menu or refreshing an existing one, this workshop will help you build a menu that's simple, strategic, and aligned with your business goals.

You'll learn

  • Choosing the right products
  • Creating a balanced menu
  • Best-sellers vs. profit-makers
  • Menu engineering basics
  • Reducing unnecessary inventory
  • Designing for customer decision-making

Expected output

  • Draft of Your Café Menu
  • Menu Planning Worksheet
  • Product Evaluation Matrix
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You don't need to be an accountant to understand your café's financial health.

In this workshop, you'll learn the key numbers every café owner should monitor regularly so you can make better decisions, identify problems early, and grow your business with confidence.

You'll learn

  • Sales dashboard
  • Gross profit
  • Net profit
  • Food & beverage cost
  • Labor cost
  • Break-even point
  • Inventory flow
  • Key performance indicators (KPIs)

Expected output

  • Personalized Café Financial Dashboard
  • KPI Tracker
  • Weekly Business Review Template
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“Because what gets reviewed gets improved.”

Running a café isn't just about working hard every day, it's about taking time to step back, review your numbers, and make better decisions for the month ahead.

The Monthly Café Business Review™ is a guided workshop where café owners evaluate their business performance using practical dashboards, worksheets, and proven business review frameworks.

Instead of guessing what's working, you'll leave with a clearer picture of your café's health and a concrete action plan for the next month. Think of it as your monthly “CEO Meeting” with yourself, supported by a community of fellow café owners. We will be doing it together.

Every month we'll review

Sales Performance

  • Total Sales
  • Daily Average Sales
  • Best-selling products
  • Slow-moving products

Profitability

  • Gross Profit
  • Net Profit
  • Food Cost %
  • Beverage Cost %
  • Labor Cost

Operations

  • Inventory
  • Wastage
  • Stock Issues
  • Supplier Concerns
  • Equipment Problems

Team

  • Staff performance
  • Training needs
  • Customer feedback
  • Scheduling

Marketing

  • Promotions
  • Social media
  • Campaign performance
  • Customer acquisition
  • Repeat customers

Next Month Planning

  • Top priorities
  • Monthly goals
  • Projects
  • Action items
  • Budget adjustments

You'll walk away with

  • Updated Café Business Dashboard
  • Monthly Scorecard
  • Business Health Assessment
  • 30-Day Action Plan
  • Priority Checklist
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Looking to offer something beyond espresso?

Alternative brewing methods can elevate your café experience, attract specialty coffee enthusiasts, and create opportunities for higher-value beverages.

In this online demo workshop, you'll explore popular manual brewing methods and learn when, and whether, they're the right fit for your café.

You'll learn

  • Introduction to specialty coffee
  • Understanding extraction basics
  • Pourover brewing
  • French Press
  • AeroPress
  • Vietnamese Phin
  • Brewing variables
  • Choosing the right brewing method for your business

Expected output

  • Online demo experience with multiple brewing methods
  • Brewing Recipe Guide
  • Alternative Brewing Decision Guide for Your Café
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The founder of The Cafe Training Center

There are thousands of free videos online. But knowing isn't the same as building.

Our workshops are carefully designed to take you from one step to the next, with practical exercises, templates, worksheets, live coaching, and a community that continues learning together. Instead of spending months piecing together information from different creators, you'll leave each session with a clear action plan you can immediately apply to your café.

Face-to-face programs

In the room, hands on.

More classes to release soon. Pioneer members get a lifetime 50% discount on every face-to-face class, and two of these are included in the membership outright.

Participants preparing pourover at the training bar

Open for enrollment

Hands-on Small Coffee Business Training

Our signature beginner-friendly program, combining practical coffee preparation with the business foundations you need to confidently start and operate a small coffee business.

Pioneer members get complimentary access to this face-to-face class.

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Graduates holding their certificates at the end of a face-to-face program

September 2026

Coffeepreneur Bootcamp

A two-day intensive business bootcamp

Built for aspiring café owners and existing coffee entrepreneurs who want to build stronger, more sustainable businesses.

  • Business Design
  • Startup Planning
  • Costing & Pricing
  • Business Finance
  • Operations & Systems
  • AI for Café Businesses
  • Marketing
  • Growth Planning

Pioneer members get complimentary access to this face-to-face class.

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October 2026

Professional Barista Training Program

Built for aspiring baristas, café employees, and coffee shop owners who want to raise beverage quality, workflow efficiency, customer service, and overall café standards. Our long-term vision is to help cafés gain access to better-trained professionals, while creating more career opportunities for people entering the coffee industry.

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From past sessions

A community that keeps learning together.

A class holding their certificates of completion
An instructor demonstrating at the brew bar while the class watches
A full class photographed together at the end of a program
A participant brewing pourover beside the recipe board
A Coffee Business Bootcamp class at the end of a session
The espresso machine, grinder and bar setup before a session
A business session in progress across the training room

Pioneer membership

Only 300 people will ever
get this rate.

Pioneer membership is capped at 300. When the last seat goes, the offer closes — and the rate you joined at is the rate you keep, for life.

Individual

₱34,567

One membership, one person.

Couple / Business Partner

₱50,000

Good for two — ₱25,000 each.

What's included

Unlimited access to every online class

Every workshop on this page, and every one after it

Including the Monthly Café Business Review at ₱3,997 a session. Recordings stay on the website for your unlimited access.

Complimentary Hands-on Coffee Business Training

Face-to-face · Coffeepreneur Fundamentals

A full seat in the signature beginner program, at no cost.

Complimentary 2-day Coffeepreneur Intensive

Face-to-face · Business systems and finance for cafés

The two-day intensive, included in your membership.

Lifetime 50% discount on all face-to-face classes

Non-transferable

Half price on every in-person class we run, for as long as you're a member.

Lifetime preferred rates on all classes

Transferable

Unlike the discount, this one you can pass on or sell.

Exclusive Pioneer merchandise

Members only

The Pioneer members community

Online, members only

The people who joined at the start, in one room.

295 slots left

5 of 300 taken

As of August 2, 2026

Claim one of the 295 slots

First come, first served. When the last slot goes, classes are sold one at a time at full price.