327: Founder Friday! w/ Phuong Tran of Lava Java

Keys To The Shop : Equipping Coffee Shop Leaders · Jan 28, 2022 · 57m

Today we get to talk with a pillar and foundational member of the specialty coffee community, Phuong Tran of Lava Java

For 20 years now Phuong Tran has been the owner/operator of the famed coffee shop, Lava Java in Ridgefield Washington. There she discovered a passion for coffee that led her to not only craft the shop into a beacon of hight standards in the beginning of the 3rd wave of coffee, but she also became inspired to begin competing to in barista competitions as a way to improve. She won the U.S. title in 2005 and amidst the notoriety of the win simply continued to run a great cafe…