Help with coffee scent!!

[s.gonzales]

So, we've just opened up a brand new restaurant, and the coffee portion is quite large - so large, in fact, that it only gives off that wonderful coffee aroma if you're quite near our Barista station. I want the scent to waft through the entire shop. Is there any way to accomplish this? Any tips and tricks would be a plus!

 

[chast]

yankee candle has an espresso candle, at least they did

 

[s.gonzales]

Sorry, I should have specified that we cannot use candles - anything with open flame. Looking for anything else that might be used. Thanks.

 

[chast]

there are also coffee sprays that are unique and the only other way would maybe to place a real small fan by some coffee beans and circulate. Everytime I pop the tops off of my bean containers the entire room fills up with a great coffee smell, plus when you grind it adds more. I am out of suggestions

 

[PinkRose]

So, we've just opened up a brand new restaurant, and the coffee portion is quite large - so large, in fact, that it only gives off that wonderful coffee aroma if you're quite near our Barista station. I want the scent to waft through the entire shop. Is there any way to accomplish this? Any tips and tricks would be a plus!

In one of the cafe's where I used to work, they had an electric candle warmer crock that did the trick. You don't actually light and burn the coffee scented candle, but you put it in the candle warmer and it gently melts the wax. The scent goes into the air, and there is no smoke going along with it. After seeing how well it worked, I bought one and I use it at home.

Here are some that are on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&no...vptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_3u6itj6lhp_b

 

[CoffeeDudes]

You should use an air-conditioner wall to maintain the scent in your restaurant without allowing the air to "move out". Internal circulation is key :star:

 

[CCafe]

Any type of warmer will do it for you. I know quite a few places in the past that went out and bought satellite bunn warmers. They would turn them on and dump 1/4 to 1/2 cup of beans on the warmer and cook them all day long.

The same also works for cookies. Saw a place that would spray a little nonstick oil on the burner and put cookie dough on it and make a throw away cookie. Its only purpose was to make the place smell like they had been baking fresh cookies.

 

[PinkRose]

On days when I'm working, customers often come into the cafe, and they say "Wow, it smells nice in here." They're referring to the scent of coffee.

I guess I've gotten so used to it that I can't smell in anymore. Occassionally, I'll recognize the scent of coffee when I arrive for work, after walking from my car on a crisp cold morning.

I have a friend who works in a store that mainly sells chocolate. When I walk into that store, I immediately recognize the scent of chocolate, but she says she can't smell it anymore.

Has this happened to anyone here?

Rose

 

[topher]

20 years of roasting every day and I still smell it every time I walk into my roastery.

 

[mosafer1]

there are also coffee sprays that are unique and the only other way would maybe to place a real small fan by some coffee beans and circulate. Everytime I pop the tops off of my bean containers the entire room fills up with a great coffee smell, plus when you grind it adds more. I am out of suggestions

100% agree with Chast