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As we conclude the year 2018, it is important to take a step back to see where we have come and express our gratitude, and to pen down our hopes and aspirations for the year ahead. Spent the nights out during the Christmas period 🙂 2018 was our first full year of operations and the highlights were seeing the opening of 2 coffee kiosks at Civil Service College (CSC) and Centre for Healthcare Innovation (CHI) in July and October respectively. We wrapped up our business at NUS (National University of Singapore) in May 2018, ending our 9-months operations…

I told my friends I’m going on a holiday in Hanoi. “For work or personal?”, my friends joked, insinuating that I’m there just for the coffee for Foreword Coffee’s next coffee source. “Personal la..” I reassured. I ended up embarking on an adventure to explore the coffee culture in Hanoi, Vietnam, and this is my take on the specialty coffee culture in this beautiful and rustic city. Night scene in the Old Quarter of Hanoi Vietnam has two coffee cultures that run parallel to each other, similar to Singapore’s local kopi culture and our specialty coffee scene. We are familiar…

Foreword Coffee trains and hires differently-abled persons, especially those with autism and the hard of hearing and Deaf community. Here we share a little bit of what we struggle in the workplace; to balance between creating a diverse and inclusive workforce, and having an efficient team. In a bid to improve efficiency, we seek for our employees to specialize and be experts in their domains. The cashier performs her duties with little to no mistakes; the kitchen assistant supports the baristas; the junior barista doses the correct amount of coffee grounds and pulls the desired amount of espresso; the…