Small Business Month is here, March 2022.  We will be profiling a number of our Partners throughout the month of March to showcase the people behind the small business we support. This will include our Customers and the Supply Partners that support us. Please keep an eye on our Facebook & Instagram accounts for more on this throughout the month.

Our Roasters are small, Australian owned businesses with many years of experience and a great love for their work. We are thrilled to be able to bring you such high quality, speciality coffee from Western Sydney, Australia.

Did you know that all our key suppliers are Australian owned except for SHOTT? They are New Zealand owned which is basically part of Australia anyway, right? Most of our suppliers also manufacture their goods in Australia too. We will be sharing more details on our Suppliers throughout March. If there’s something you are particularly interested in learning more about, email us here.

Our Founder, Berenice Walker started Emu Coffee in 2019 after a long corporate career in Franchising, Retail Hospitality and of course, all things coffee (have a peek a her LinkedIn profile for more details). She identified that many small business owners are all over their day-to-day operations however, doing ‘all the things’ left them limited time to explore how to develop and grow their business. 

Did you know that Emu Coffee also has a special Facebook Group for small business owners called Coffee Constellation? If this sounds like something you would benefit from, join the community today.

Conversely, if you know someone that may benefit from working together, please let them know about Emu Coffee. We grow from referrals and appreciate your support. 

We look forward to brining you profiles of like minded small businesses and would love to see you comment on our social pages. Thank you for supporting Emu Coffee, we believe that when you shop small your dollar goes further in the community. 

It is with great excitement that Emu Coffee announces our partnership with Little Wildling Co. 

The Emu Coffee team originally fell in love with the Little Wildling's range as customers. Our love of Little Wildling Co quickly grew from there. Emu Coffee actively chooses to work with Australian owned businesses that offer both unique and sustainable products. Little Wildling Co’s full range is completely organic. Their tea bags are also bio-degradable, contain no glue, no toxins, no plastic, no baddies.

Emu Coffee will offer Little Wildling Co’s full range to cafes, roasters & premium grocers. We will also offer a reduced range direct to consumers through our website. 

As part of our partnership with Little Wildling Co, we are also proud to offer an exclusive range of ‘straight up’ teas to our wholesale customers both as loose leaf and compostable tea bags. 

We like to do things a bit differently at Emu Coffee and always look to offer our customers new & innovative products that will add value to their businesses. In particular, we felt there was a missed opportunity for cafes to offer their customers consistency of experience with their dine-in and take-away tea customers. Enter our exclusive pack sizes of tea-bags and loose leaf teas from the Little Wildling’s Straight-Up range.

Little Wildling Co was created by Lee Sutherland after many years studying Herbal Medicine. Lee has crafted a tea range that ticks the boxes in both flavour & medicinal purposes. The tea range is organic and beautifully packaged to stand out proudly on the counter tops of your kitchen or favourite cafe. Little Wildling Co teas are a lifestyle extension that speaks to a range of people - from the health conscious to the creative types that sometimes need a tongue in cheek message, to help remind them to slow down with a cup of tea.

For wholesale enquiries, please contact Berenice Walker at info@emucoffee.com.au or to purchase for your own enjoyment, head to www.emucoffee.com.au/products 

If you’ve been running a franchise for a while, and you’ve decided to move on, we bet you’ll feel liberated. Now what’s next? You’ve got the experience from operating someone else’s model, you want to start up your own café business, and you want the choice and freedom to do it your way – but you need some help, particularly with systems and process support. 

You can say goodbye to frozen lamingtons, but what food and beverage menu will you now offer? Can you stay in the same location? What will your cafe look like? What will your new brand be? How can you best invest the royalty money that is now going into your pocket, and not the franchise group’s? 

These questions will be top of mind for people coming out of their franchise arrangements. And Emu Coffee can help. 

First up, we’ll work with you to understand whether partnering with Emu Coffee – in a supply arrangement, as part of our Coffee Constellations group, or both, is a good, mutual fit. Our coffee supply agreements and Coffee Constellations memberships run for 12 months only, and we won’t be hitting you up for royalty or marketing money. 

If the fit is right, we supply you with Australian roasted, quality coffee beans, plus a self-guided operational toolkit to facilitate your transition to business independence. The toolkit includes things like rostering templates and team training videos, and ideas for menus and recipes for your new business. Coffee is our hero, and we’ll help you and your staff with operational training and support, so your customers enjoy the very best coffee experience. 

Collaboration is key with Emu Coffee, and while we’re not your operations manager, we are there with the advice, support and resources your business might need, when you need it.   

Contact us at info@emucoffee.com.au or call Berenice Walker on 0416 115 791

Until now, if you wanted to operate your own café you had two options – independent or franchised. Emu Coffee offers you, as a small business owner or manager, new options.

I know from my firsthand experience that there’s a better way than existing franchise arrangements. At Emu Coffee, our terms are simple, and you won’t be locked into long term contracts or be asked for royalty or contribution payments.

Our team has many years’ experience in retail café and hospitality supply, services and business development. We want to share that experience, knowledge, knowhow and networks with you.

If you’re new to our industry, we can help you get off the ground. As an Emu Coffee customer, we will walk you through our toolkit which will give you all you need to get started. If you want more, for a reasonable annual fee, you can join Coffee Constellation, which will open up a world of experienced operational knowledge, training and advice for you and your team.

Or, if you are currently running your own business, but looking for an easier, more efficient and cost-effective way, we are also here to help. Our passion is supporting small business owners who want to control their offer, because they know their customers better than anyone.

Contact us at info@emucoffee.com.au or follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/emu-coffee