Today we’d like to introduce you to Joshua Barille.
Hi Joshua, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstories.
Kat And I met while working in a cafe in Carlsbad together 11 years ago. Through our relationship, we’ve found a balance of dreaming and working towards opening our own coffee/wine shop like going through the specialty coffee association training and certifications. 8 years married and 3 kids later were able to open our first shop in vista including a staff of six people we really enjoy, and starting all our programs in-house, including monthly wine tastings, and coffee workshops simple fun and educational classes for all levels
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Relatively a smooth road, beginning our process at the end of the covid lockdowns was tough with long wait times for equipment, etc but otherwise, all the pieces fell in place perfectly
As you know, we’re big fans of Archers Arrow Coffeehouse. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about the brand?
We specialize in approachable coffee. If you have a friend that’s afraid of coffee or doesn’t drink it, bring them. If you have a friend who only drinks heirloom specialty coffee from a specific region, bring em! were prepared to welcome all levels of coffee drinkers and enjoy a comfortable atmosphere and talk shop, or educate on the difference in roasting techniques, etc.
We want readers to know that were not just “another pretty coffee shop” we have the education, we have the background to train, educate and enjoy
We use cafe virtuoso organic specialty beans for most of our house offerings, but we also feature rotating local roasters for our single orgin and pour-over options.
We take great pride in our decaf program as well, we have a very loyal decaf clientele that have mentioned before becoming accustomed to bad-tasting coffee and that shouldn’t be the case, we take great pride in our single orgin decaf
How do you define success?
Success to us is growth across the board, professionally and personally for the staff, seeing them learn new skills and concepts while maintaining a work-life balance is important to us, and also having a good product people want to share with their friends. The highest compliment we can receive is when people bring in their friends and family because they liked it so much
Contact Info:
- Website: archersarrowcoffeehouse.com
- Instagram: archersarrowcoffee
- Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/archers-arrow-coffee-house-vista
Image Credits
Donald J Pease
