TL;DR: We’re prioritising solar powered roasting for 2027. It will require some small changes to how we operate but service remains the same. Aim is for 100% solar but winter will provide challenges. Our previous post on the carbon footprint of a delivery mentioned we are working on our 2027 plan and getting an electric … Read more
We’re taking our first foray in to podcast advertising next week by sponsoring the Insect of the Week feature on the Roots and All podcast, with the first airing going out on Monday 16th March. If you’re not familiar with it Roots and All is a podcast about gardening with a strong focus on protecting … Read more
We’ve been using Natureflex compostable packaging for a couple of years but we didn’t actually know if it was being composted by our customers so we sent out a very short survey in our newsletter and in the order completed emails that go out following a customer’s order being dispatched for a week. We received … Read more
We have changed our payments processor to Mollie. Mollie is a company based in The Netherlands and processes its data in the EU. We previously used Stripe. For UK customers they are based in Ireland and process data in the EU but data also gets passed to its parent company based in the US. Their … Read more
Last year my pre-existing anxiety started to get even worse. I was frequently having debilitating feelings of panic, and occasional panic attacks. This was on top of waking up in the night drenched in sweat, and slightly raised blood pressure. Some of you may recognise this straight away as perimenopause which my doctor diagnosed after … Read more
You may know Roasting House is a husband & wife company, and in 2021, just as the pandemic was ending and after we invested in our business to hopefully come out of it stronger we were dealt a blow we weren’t prepared for; our “good” residential landlord of over seven years gave us a no … Read more
For a while I thought that the whole AI thing was over-stated and people weren’t using it quite as much as the hype would have you believe, but apparently 79% of people have used AI at work so it really is everywhere. Only 15% of small businesses are using it compared to 68% of large … Read more
