The Tea Academy
 Consulting and Training
For Tea Professionals
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Consulting and Marketing for Established Tea Businesses
One of the pitfalls of owning your own business is never having enough time to "wear all the hats!" The mission of the Tea Academy is to educate its members how to successfully own, operate and promote their own tea business. When you need help in effectively promoting your :

* online tea business
* tea room/ tea bar
* home tea party consultant
* catering tea party business 
* B&B offering Afternoon Tea
* Specialty Events Coordinator

We have the business experience, tea education, journalism and marketing backgrounds to increase your bottom line and increase publicity for your business!

We can increase traffic to your website or store front thru:
1.Newsletters reflective of your business personality
2.Free Publicity
3.Magazine Articles
4.Press Releases
5.Help Create Specialty Events

Melanie is also available for on site consultation to offer team training in the following areas:
1. Advice on staff restructuring
2. Menu & Recipe Development
3. Costing & Inventory
4. Creative Ways to Increase Profit & Become Cost Effective
5. Empowering The Owner in the kitchen
6. Tea education and proper prepartation
7. Retail and merchandising
8. Loose Tea menu planning
9. Tea etiquette.
10. Specialty events

To find out more about the services we can custom tailor for your Tea Room, Bed and Breakfast, online retail tea business or tea bar,  please call Melanie at (423) 926-0123 Or e-mail her at missmelanies@embarqmail.com. Fees for services are customized for your particular needs.

If you already own a Tea Room, than you are among the 80% of Restaurants that go out of business in the first three years of operation! Let us give you creative strategies to deal with your competition, create customer loyalty, and add specialty events to maintain your cash flow.

Too busy to travel to our Seminar? Want to train your entire team? Schedule Melanie & Chef Scott Phillips to come to your business and offer a customized training seminar to get your business back on the right foot!