Get Barista Skills for First Job
Our program provides competence, confidence, and skills in guest service and working in a professional setting to give you the competitive advantage to succeeding in your first job. Learn more.
Introduction to Coffee
Our program provides hands on experiential and sensory learning about the subtleties of coffee and the foundations of making a good coffee drink. Learn more.
ProBarista
Our program involves intensive knowledge and guided skills development in the pathways of espresso coffee and artisanal coffee brewing. Learn more.
Our training programs
Barista Skills for First Job*
Gain the knowledge and skills for working in a cafe or coffee shop
- Gain the foundations in skills and knowledge for coffee
- Gain professional barista skills in espresso coffee drinks and using espresso machines properly
- Gain service skills to work confidently and competently in a cafe or coffee shop
Class Size:Â 6
Duration: 8 sessions/16.5 hours
Price: VND 4 million
Introduction To Coffee
Build a strong foundation of coffee knowledge and skills by learning:
- Coffee History and Theory
- Foundations of Artisan Brewing Techniques
- Foundations of Espresso Coffee Drinks
Class Size: 6
Duration: 3 sessions/9 hours
Price: VND 1.4 million
Professional Barista: Espresso Coffee Drinks*
Gain the skills, techniques, and knowledge to make espresso coffee drinks in a professional setting by learning how to:
- Pull a great espresso shot
- Create multiple types of espresso coffee drinks
- Make latte art
Class size: 4
Duration: 5 sessions/10.5 hours
Price: VND 2.8 million
Professional Barista: Artisanal Brewing*
Gain skills, techniques, and knowledge of brewing coffee using professional and artisanal techniques and equipment by learning how to:
- Brew coffee using international standards commonly used in coffee shops
- Create hot, iced, and cold coffee drinks
- Use modern, smart, and traditional coffee brewing equipment
Class Size: 6
Duration: 5 sessions/9 hours
Price: VND 4 million
Professional Barista: Full Course*
A combination of both Professional Barisa: Espresso Coffee Drinks and Professional Barista: Artisanal Brewing in one program. By taking this course you will gain:
- Skills, techniques, and knowledge in both espresso coffee and artisanal brewing
- A greater understanding of coffee and coffee flavors
- Ability to adjust and create unique flavors in espresso coffee drinks and brewed coffee
Class Size: 4 people
Duration: 9 sessions/18.5 hours
Price: VND 4.4 million
Gain Skills For a First Job while Studying at University
We promise to provide:
- Professional level certified training
- Over 75% of training time will be hands-on skills development with a training professional
- Maximum of 6 students per trainer in a class
Learn everything needed to be confident, competent, and capable for a first job
The Saigon Coffee Academy can provide you with the skills and certifications to assist you in acquiring a job as a barista when you study overseas. The entire package is a combination of professional skills of a barista which include: knowledge about coffee and its origins, sensory skills in different types of coffee, skills in brewing and pouring drinks commonly found in a cafe and coffee shop, F&B service skills for baristas, and international health and hygiene practices.
The program is a full package that combines the courses: Introduction to Coffee, Professional Barista: Espresso Coffee Drinks, and Professional Barista: Artisanal Brewing. Each course will be taught by professional baristas and provide certificates to assist in the job application process.
Introduction to Coffee
We provide professional level training using the latest equipment and techniques. Each training session lasts for 3 hours in one of our training rooms or in the Saigon Coffee Academy lab.
We promise to provide:
- Professional level certified training
- Over 75% of training time will be hands-on skills development with a training professional
- Maximum of 6 students per trainer in a class
Introduction to Coffee
This program is an experiential and sensory knowledge development course that also provides the foundation skills for making good quality coffee drinks.
This course provides sensory skills development through sights, smell, taste, and touch to grade and categorize coffee and adjust skills to produce an enjoyable cup of coffee.
This course also provides focused and guided foundational training on how to brew coffee at an artisanal level and create a professional level espresso coffee drink.
Professional Barista: Espresso Coffee Drinks
We promise to provide:
- Professional level certified training
- Over 75% of training time will be hands-on skills development with a training professional
- Maximum of 6 students per trainer in a class
Professional Barista Skills for the Full Program
Professional espresso coffee is an intensive, guided, professional level training program that focuses on providing the necessary skills and techniques to create espresso-based coffee drinks while competently operating various types of espresso coffee machines.
This program involves developing skills in making drinks, troubleshooting problems that can occur, along with skills in maintenance of professional quality espresso coffee machines.
The combination of these skills and knowledge sets creates a professional that can operate and adjust to ensure that a great cup of Italian style coffee is consistently served to a professional standard.
Professional Barista:Â Artisanal Brewing
We provide professional level training using the latest equipment and techniques. Each training session lasts for 3 hours in one of our training rooms or in the Saigon Coffee Academy lab.
We promise to provide:
- Professional level certified training
- Over 75% of training time will be hands-on skills development with a training professional
- Maximum of 6 students per trainer in a class
Professional Barista Skills in Artisanal Brewing
Professional coffee brewing is an intensive, guided, professional level training program that focuses on providing the necessary skills and techniques to brew coffee using common and uncommon coffee brewing equipment and brewing techniques.
This program involves the focused skills not only on various methods on how to brew coffee, but how to adjust methods and techniques to adjust to create a great cup of coffee for professional service.
This program involves developing skills in making drinks, troubleshooting problems that can occur.
Professional Barista: Full Course
We provide professional level training using the latest equipment and techniques. Each training session lasts for 3 hours in one of our training rooms or in the Saigon Coffee Academy lab.
We promise to provide:
- Professional level certified training
- Over 75% of training time will be hands-on skills development with a training professional
- Maximum of 6 students per trainer in a class
Professional Barista Skills for the Full Program
This program is a combination of the two professional pathways for professional baristas; artisanal brewing and espresso coffee. These two pathways are brewing coffee at a professional level and espresso coffee at a professional level. Professional coffee brewing is an intensive, guided, professional level training program that focuses on providing the necessary skills and techniques to brew coffee using common and uncommon coffee brewing equipment and brewing techniques.
This program involves the focused skills not only on various methods on how to brew coffee, but how to adjust methods and techniques to adjust to create a great cup of coffee for professional service. Professional espresso coffee is an intensive, guided, professional level training program that focuses on providing the necessary skills and techniques to create espresso-based coffee drinks while competently operating various types of espresso coffee machines.
This program involves developing skills in making drinks, troubleshooting problems that can occur, along with skills in maintenance of professional quality espresso coffee machines. The combination of these skills and knowledge sets creates a professional that can operate and adjust to ensure that a great cup of Italian style coffee is consistently served to a professional standard.
some of Our other Services
Coffee workshops
- We hold workshops on the skills of Brewing Coffee and Tea at Home, Making Vietnamese Coffee Drinks, and Creating Latte Art.
- All workshops have limited numbers to ensure that all individuals get to learn the skills while having fun.
Coffee tours
- We have half day and full day tours within Ho Chi Minh City where individuals can experience the coffee of Vietnam.
- Our tours include a special workshop where you can gain skills in making the various types of coffee you tasted in the visits to the coffee shops.
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audits and assessments
- We ensure that high quality and high standards by met by auditing and assessing on skills, quality of drinks.
- We ensure that brand quality standards are met and exceeded set by our international partners.
barista training for businesses
- We train teams on the technical and soft skills needed for the creation and service of espresso and brewed coffee and tea drinks.
- All skills are established by international standards and we are capable of training Australian, Italian, or American methods of coffee making and service.
guest service development
- We help coffee shops, restaurants, and hotels by providing technical and soft skills training on guest service to meet international standards and expectations.
- We create operating procedures for guest service for foodservice operations large and small.
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research and development
- We create new drinks and new methods of making drinks for our clients so they can have an advantage over the competition.
- We improve processes to improve speed of production and lower cost of goods served.
Saigon Coffee Academy
Location:
Inside PJ’s Coffee Sala
145 – 147 Nguyen Co Thach Street, An Loi Dong Ward, Dist 2, Hồ Chà Minh
Contact:
Please write to us at:Â Â sales@trginternational.com
TRG Food & Beverage
F&B is the latest addition to the TRG family. We are master franchises of PJ’s Coffee and Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory in Vietnam. Besides that, we also offer coffee consulting and technical skills training.
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