The cost of ABC’s five-day class includes a copy of Achieving Success in Specialty Coffee, a 23-chapter guide to success in retail coffee and Espresso 101, the industry standard DVD for training baristas (a $290 value). Those who stay for our sixth day (Latte Art and Advanced Barista Training) will also receive Advanced Barista Training: Extreme Pours (a $60 value). Register early and we will send your materials prior to you coming to class so that you can begin your education early.

• ABC's offers a comprehensive coffee business start-up program, management program, barista training, latte art training, a wide spectrum of classes for consumers, and specialty classes that include equipment maintenance, roasting and marketing.
• ABC's is not connected to a specific brand of coffee-related product, equipment or coffee. Unlike other schools that use only one brand of equipment in class, we teach you on 10 of the industry's leading espresso machines and brewing systems. We also let you work with coffee from 13 different roasters and expose you to a wide range of associated products. All the training and information you receive at ABC's is unbiased and in your best interest.
• ABC's is the only school with more than 60 sponsors that rank among the leading companies in the specialty coffee industry worldwide.
• ABC's 2100+ square foot school is the only state-of-the art training facility that includes an actual coffee bar setting for "real-life" training and a sensory room, where coffee, water, milk and tea cupping classes are held.
• ABC's "train the trainer" approach gives you or a key employee the graduate level barista skills required to train the rest of your staff.
• ABC's instructors are specialty coffee industry leaders who have owned or operated multi-unit retail coffee businesses and offer students a broad range of knowledge born of decades of real-life experience.
• ABC's class sessions include lectures and demonstrations followed by hands-on practice. Our small class sizes insure a personalized experience taught by coffee business professionals who have owned and operated successful retail coffee operations.
• As an added bonus, ABC's classes feature experienced and knowledgeable guest speakers from some of the largest and best known companies in the specialty coffee industry.
• Portland, home to ABC's and Fresh Cup, Barista, Roast and Imbibe magazines, is the "new" coffee capital of the United States. Hundreds of specialty coffee operations and some of the best roasteries in the U.S operate in the city. While in Portland, our students visit many of these innovative coffee shops and can see how other independents are able to succeed in a highly competitive market.
• ABC's is brought to you by Bellissimo Coffee InfoGroup, the specialty coffee industry's leading consulting company for the past 15 years.
  
• Bring a trainer to you! ABC's trainers can travel to your location and train your staff in your café using your equipment.