We are so proud to partner with Cancer Council WA for Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea. For the month of May, $10 from each special edition Biggest Morning Tea box goes directly to Cancer Council WA.
Australia's Biggest Morning Tea is Cancer Council Australia's most popular fundraising event and the largest, most successful event of its kind in Australia. Our Biggest Morning Tea box is packed with banana bread, fresh muffins, healthy nourish pots and delicious sandwiches.
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4/26/2024 0 Comments A WELL DESERVED THANK YOUWe love our nurses and midwives!
We’re celebrating both between International Midwives Day on Sunday May 5 and International Nurses Day on Sunday May 12. To thank our heroes for making the world happier and healthier, each May we donate thousands of free coffees to our nurses and midwives around Australia, with over 4,000 gifted since 2021. This year will be no different. Thank you to our amazing nurses and midwives. Because of you, we live in a happier, healthier world. 3/13/2024 0 Comments A VISIT FROM BRAZILLast week we had a visit to our warehouse from long time Brazilian supply partners, Silvio Leite from Cerca de Pedras and Fabiano Borre of Fazenda Progresso. Fabiano's farm, Fazenda Progresso, is nestled in the Chapada Diamantina mountain range, in the heart of Bahia, 1,150m above sea level. This high elevation plays a key role in the quality of the coffees produced here, as does the region’s climate. Hot days and cool nights, with an average temperature variation of just 10°C, create the ideal conditions for slow coffee cherry maturation and the gradual development of natural sugars in the fruit, resulting in a sweet and complex cup. Fazenda Progresso is owned by the Borré family who have been in business for three generations. The history of the farm dates back to 1984 when the Borré family migrated from Southern Brazil to the northeast and purchased some land in the municipality of Ibicoara, near the town of Mucugê. In the early years, the family tried growing crops such as soybeans, wheat and English potatoes. The potatoes turned out to be an incredibly successful crop, stimulating investments and making the family one of the largest producers of potatoes in Bahia. The Borré’s motto is ‘Mindful Coffee’. This describes their commitment to acting mindfully and ensuring that their family values and vision (that centre around excellence, innovation, and environmental and social responsibility) are informing every decision they make and defining how they do business.
Silvio Leite is widely regarded as one of the world’s best cuppers and as a leader in specialty coffee and has played a pivotal role in shaping specialty coffee both in Brazil (and in particular the state of Bahia, where he was has worked for over 27 years) as well as globally. Silvio is one of the founders of the Cup of Excellence program, and has served as a Head Judge for over 30 Cup of Excellence competitions and travels the globe to lead coffee lectures and cupping training. He has served as President of the BSCA, and has worked for a multitude of coffee companies supporting them with everything from coffee processing and quality control to all stages of post-harvest processing. More recently Silvio founded Agricoffee and works to connect exceptional farmers with specialty coffee buyers. The Café Collective is a group of hospitality professionals with diverse fresh food and coffee operations across some of Australia’s largest healthcare and education campuses. Our brand Supernatural is all about food made from scratch, using quality, local ingredients. We don’t do deep fryers, cling wrap or soggy salads made off site. We are relentless about making delicious, fresh food that people love, which is why the Supernatural, Perth Children’s Hospital team were excited to try some of the WA Department of Health’s new green salad recipes! This week they made the Pulled Pork Asian salad found on page 209. This involves slow cooking a pork shoulder and then combining it with freshly chopped cabbage, carrot, spring onion, coriander and loads of other delicious ingredients! It was an awesome addition to our salad display, where customers can pick and choose as many varieties as they like. Salads are hugely popular at the moment with the warmer weather, and we can’t wait to try loads more! The Café Collective is a family owned company, operated by passionate and experienced hospitality professionals.
Our cafes located in healthcare and education campuses across Australia demonstrate our love of fresh, healthy food, our own roasted coffee, excellent customer service and sustainability best practice. The team at Aroma Café at Fiona Stanley Hospital in WA pride themselves on making almost every food item from scratch every day, and they’re always on the look out for new recipes! When the WA Department of Health released some brand new Amber and Green recipes earlier this year, they were eager to give them a try! House made bakes, frittatas and quiche are hugely popular at this store so this week Nella and the team chose the Caramelised Onion Frittata on page 170 of the recipes. It was super easy to make, and has been a great green addition to their fresh display. We have also already tried alternatives packed with more vegetables and herbs, and can’t wait to get these into more of our stores over Summer. Thank you, WA Department of Health, for the opportunity to introduce our customers to this delicious frittata! 11/2/2023 0 Comments Banana & Nut Bars with TurmericThe Café Collective is a group of hospitality professionals that are passionate about fresh food, our own roasted coffee and excellent customer service. We are a family business with café operations in healthcare and education campuses across Australia. We are relentless in our pursuit of quality, healthy and delicious food options for our customers and were very excited when the WA Department of Health released an extensive collection of new green and amber recipes earlier this year. Our team at The Food Hall at Perth Children’s Hospital couldn’t wait to try them all! This week the team had a go at the Banana & Nut Bars with Turmeric on page 18 of the recipes. Here’s how it’s made… The bar was delicious! We handed out samples to our customers who had fantastic feedback and couldn’t wait to see it on our permanent menu. The bars have a green rating, so they make a great healthy snack option and perfect treat alternative to sugary slices and cakes.
These have been added to our permanent menu for Spring, with some new flavour ideas on their way as well! Thank you to the Department of Health for these wonderful recipes, we can’t wait to try more. 9/20/2023 0 Comments Daffodil Day 2023On Thursday August 31st, Cancer Council WA popped up at The Perth Children's Hospital Food Hall with fresh daffodils and pins for sale, as well as fun arts, crafts and activities for customers big and small.
It was an amazing day with a grand total of $4226 raised for Daffodil Day! Our staff, customers and Cancer Council WA had some really positive feedback and we would love to thank everyone who assisted and donated on the day. The Café Collective is passionate about implementing and championing the Healthy Options WA Policy. Healthy food has always been an intrinsic part of our operation, from the design of our stores, to our menus and food and beverage displays.
Our goal is to create welcoming spaces where quality, home made food is served in an inviting manner. Abundant fresh fruit for our made to order juices are displayed alongside crisp, overflowing salads to mix and match as the customer chooses. Hearty, authentic sushi and noodles that are as healthy as they are delicious, home made bakes and sandwiches that are filling and tasty, without the need for butter, rich sauces or excessive oil. Many of our kitchens have omitted deep fryers altogether, allowing us to focus on the styles of food we love best – fresh, homemade and delicious. We do not buy our products in or store them hidden away in glad wrap. We are proud of everything we make on site daily and show case it in abundant displays in every store. We will not promote “red” items in our cafes and are always working to encourage our staff and customers to make better, healthier choices. The Café Collective’s General Manager, Adrian Mule, is a member of the WA Canteen Association and is actively involved in the implementation and audit of each state’s health eating policy, as well as our own operational policies amongst our stores. He has worked closely with South Metropolitan Health and the WA Canteen Association to develop and implement policies that empower customers to make healthy choices and are practical to implement in any hospitality venue. He has also implemented our own internal self audits across stores to ensure we are compliant with healthy eating policies at all times. It is important to us to not only drive these initiatives in our stores, but to create new and exciting ways to encourage healthy eating in future as well. 8/3/2022 0 Comments PLANET-FRIENDLY PACKAGINGWe use eco-friendly packaging in all of our cafes wherever possible, doing our part towards a plastic-free future. Since 2020 all of our sites have used exclusively Biopak Coffee Cups, made from sustainably sourced paper and plant-based bioplastic.
By buying coffee cups and other packaging products from BioPak, a carbon neutral company, we have avoided more than 14,000kg of plastic in the past 12 months. Our support also contributes to the reduction of carbon emissions in the form of offset credits, and helps create a greener future through tree-planting projects. Our internal coffee roasting entity, Nine Bars, is proud to be part of BioPak's vision for a world without waste. 5/19/2022 0 Comments SUPPORTING OUR HEROESWe have so much admiration and respect for the thousands of nurses and midwives that we serve every day in our cafes.
Every year we are proud to offer a free coffee to every nurse and midwive to celebrate International Nurses & Midwives Day in May. In 2022 we distributed 2025 free coffees, worth $9112 to nursing staff across our seven health campus cafes. As many of our cafes operate on health campuses, we are more than pleased to do our part to support the nursing community. It is especially important in the midst of the current pandemic that we acknowledge the courage, compassion, and tireless work of our nurses and midwives. A small token to say a huge thank you to our heroes! |
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