Track: Coffee

A sensory and strategic journey for your business.
The Coffee and Tea Tour is an experience that connects tradition, innovation, and expert guidance. Here, roasters, manufacturers, and distributors become strategic partners, helping you create unique and profitable proposals.
Our purpose? To inspire you, advise you, and accompany you in the evolution of your business.
Discover the Coffee and Tea Tour freely!

La Ruta del Café y Té | Alimentaria

Coffee is experiencing one of the most relevant moments in its recent history. Popularity, new formats, emerging habits, and a category that is consolidating as a value driver for the HORECA channel. This opening session offers a clear and up-to-date overview of the coffee ecosystem, its value chain, and the strategic role of each stakeholder in the overall success. An essential introduction to understand why coffee is no longer just a beverage, but a real business opportunity.

By AE Café.

The coffee category is evolving at great speed within the OOH channel. New models, hybrid concepts, and proposals are emerging in response to increasingly demanding and better-informed consumers. This session presents the key insights from the Local Heroes Coffee & Bakeries report, focusing on trends, operational complexity, structural challenges, and growth levers. An essential snapshot to understand where today’s opportunities lie and how to capitalize on them from a business perspective.

Real-life cases of operators who have turned coffee into the strategic backbone of their business model. Contemporary, profitable concepts aligned with new customer expectations. This roundtable discussion brings key decisions, practical learnings, and avoidable mistakes to the table, showing how coffee can become a powerful competitive differentiator. Direct inspiration for hoteliers, restaurateurs, and coffee professionals who want this category to move beyond being a mere add-on and become a true driver of success.

Automation has become a strategic ally: cost savings, consistency in quality, and greater operational efficiency. This keynote explores how technology applied to coffee makes it possible to scale results without losing the experience. A practical perspective on why automation does not dehumanize, but rather frees up time, reduces errors, and improves the overall performance of the business.

Machinery manufacturers share real-world experiences of automation applied to coffee. What works, what doesn’t, and the impact on costs, quality, and daily operations. An honest conversation about investment, return, and smart decisions for businesses seeking efficiency without compromising a high-quality customer experience.

The Coffee & Bakery segment has become one of the most successful, competitive, and profitable business models in the foodservice industry. High frequency, strong demand, and highly refined value propositions have elevated this format into a league of its own, where coffee acts as a strategic category, driving consumption, customer experience, and profitability.

In this session, we bring together leading operators from the sector to unpack what lies behind their success: well-designed business models, clearly defined consumption occasions, a consistent customer experience, and strategic decisions that truly make a difference.

Coffee as a cultural and social element. This experience combines coffee, music, and networking in a dynamic format that shows how coffee brings communities together and creates new consumption rituals. A vibrant closing for the morning that connects business, culture, and professional relationships from a contemporary perspective. Do you want to discover what a Coffee Rave can bring to your hospitality business?

Today, coffee has a name, a surname, and a place of origin. This keynote delves into the importance of origin, traceability, and storytelling as key differentiating elements. Understanding the producer, the territory, and the process is essential to sell better and position yourself with credibility. A session that invites participants to use authenticity as a strategic tool, not just as a narrative.

HORECA models that have successfully turned origin and storytelling into a powerful tool for customer connection. Clear communication, education, and emotion in the service of the experience. This roundtable discussion shows how telling the coffee story well creates empathy, loyalty, and differentiation in an increasingly competitive market.

Artificial intelligence and data analytics are already transforming coffee management. Consumption forecasting, purchasing optimization, and profitability improvement. This session explores how technology enables more precise and profitable decision-making, anticipates customer needs, and professionalizes the category within the HORECA business.

An inspiring keynote exploring successful models in cafés, restaurants, and hotels from other markets. Countries and cultures with an advanced relationship with coffee serve as a reference to identify trends, formats, and replicable approaches. Fresh ideas to anticipate and evolve your business.

A space led by IED Barcelona where the results of a food design project on Generation Z’s relationship with coffee will be presented.
An analysis of environments, formats, and consumption moments to understand how this new audience is already entering bars and cafés.

Link at https://www.ied.edu/courses/barcelona/master/food-design

A sensory and strategic journey for your business.
The Coffee and Tea Tour is an experience that connects tradition, innovation, and expert guidance. Here, roasters, manufacturers, and distributors become strategic partners, helping you create unique and profitable proposals.
Our purpose? To inspire you, advise you, and accompany you in the evolution of your business.
Discover the Coffee and Tea Tour freely!

La Ruta del Café y Té | Alimentaria

A competition that evaluates the technical and creative skills of baristas in the creation of latte art.

A sensory and strategic journey for your business.
The Coffee and Tea Tour is an experience that connects tradition, innovation, and expert guidance. Here, roasters, manufacturers, and distributors become strategic partners, helping you create unique and profitable proposals.
Our purpose? To inspire you, advise you, and accompany you in the evolution of your business.
Discover the Coffee and Tea Tour freely!

La Ruta del Café y Té | Alimentaria

To promote coffee culture in Spanish Hospitality Schools and Training Centers.
To encourage the professional development of students and teaching staff in hospitality schools.
To provide the HORECA sector with new professionals who have extensive knowledge of all aspects related to the world of coffee and its service, thereby fostering responsible, sustainable, and respectful consumption within the service industry.

A sensory and strategic journey for your business.
The Coffee and Tea Tour is an experience that connects tradition, innovation, and expert guidance. Here, roasters, manufacturers, and distributors become strategic partners, helping you create unique and profitable proposals.
Our purpose? To inspire you, advise you, and accompany you in the evolution of your business.
Discover the Coffee and Tea Tour freely!

La Ruta del Café y Té | Alimentaria