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JamaicaBlue AUTUMN 2018 ESCAPE ISSUE47 NUMBER FOOD BUILD YOUR OWN BREAKFAST FITNESS UNDERSTANDING THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP TRAVEL A TASTE OF COSTA RICA JessicaRoweWOULDN'T CHANGE A THING TAKE ME HOME FITNESS, FASHION, HEALTH, NUTRITION, RECIPES AND MORE: JB LIFESTYLE PG 27 JB47-p01 Cover.indd 2 18/01/2018 23:50:49 JamaicaBlue 2018 AutumnIssue 47 FEATURES 12 COVER FEATURE p04 Jessica Rowe 14 FOOD Build your own breakfast 17 SPORT The Commonwealth Games 20 TRAVEL JAMAICA BLUE PTY LTD Beautiful Costa Rica ACN 059 236 387 22 FOOD Unit 215F1, Building 215 p14 The Entertainment Quarter A taste of chocolate p06 122 Lang Road 24 BEACON FOUNDATION Moore Park NSW 2021 PO Box 303 A pathway to success Double Bay NSW 1360 26 THE BARISTA SAYS... T 1800 622 338 Meet Jaydan Hancock of (Australia only) T 02 9302 2200 Jamaica Blue Harbour Town F 02 9302 2212 E [email protected] LIFESTYLE SECTION New Zealand Office 28 FINANCE T +64 9377 1901 Making the most of Amazon F +64 9377 1908 30 CAREER E [email protected] Pressing pause JAMAICA BLUE ESCAPE™ 32 HEALTH Editor The science of sleep Rachel Stuart 34 FITNESS Art Director The top 5 free apps Natalie Delarey p17 36 FASHION Nutrition Specialist Six great new autumn looks Sharon Natoli 40 BOOKS Welcome to the autumn Fashion Editor Autumn reads edition of Jamaica Blue Cheryl Tan 42 NUTRITION Escape. In this issue we chat Eating for good mental health to Australian TV veteran, Contributors Jessica Rowe, try our new John Burfitt 44 NUTRITION WITH Shane Conroy SHARON NATOLI 'build your own' breakfast Sarah Megginson You are when you eat menu, ready ourselves for the Gold Coast Thomas Mitchell 46 RECIPES Commonwealth Games, try on the Autumn never tasted so good latest fashions and more. Sit back, relax JAMAICA BLUE and enjoy... and don't Published on behalf of 4 AWARD WINNERS! Jamaica Blue Pty Ltd by forget to share your Nuclear Media The Golden Bean Awards autumn Jamaica Blue Po Box 230 6 JB SPOTLIGHT experience using Double Bay NSW 1360 New Jamaica Blue cafés T 02 9363 1464 #jbescape like E [email protected] 8 JB SPOTLIGHT @imhungrymax Try our new KeepCups did. You could find Advertising Enquiries 10 FOOD yourself in an E [email protected] Pacific West Foods upcoming edition! 49 STORE LOCATIONS JB47-p03 Letter-Contents.indd 3 18/01/2018 23:53:32 JB GOLDEN BEAN AWARDS JamaicaBluecafésWINS THE GOLDEN BEAN AWARDS Each year, the coffee t the 12th annual awards Single Origin (Filter) coffees, industry eagerly ceremony at Port and a bronze for our Signature awaits the results of A Macquarie on November Blend (Milk) coffee. 25, 2017, Jamaica Blue took Our resident coffee the Pentair Everpure out the highest accolade aficionado, Jeremy Regan, Golden Bean Roaster’s possible, winning the Overall believes Jamaica Blue’s success Competition and Large Franchise/Chain Store is down to our mission to 2018 Conference – the Champion category. source the very best coffee world’s largest coffee Pulling off the win meant possible, so we can help our Autumn Jamaica Blue had to beat out customers enjoy a little escape competition. We’re more than 60 other competitors from the everyday hustle and thrilled to announce in the Large Franchise/Chain bustle of life. When asked escape | that this year, Jamaica Store category. about our award success, Blue cafés took out the We also scored medals across Jeremy confirms, “It reinforces top award! the four other categories we our commitment to ensuring entered, picking up three that our customers receive jamaicablue By Sarah Megginson silvers for our Decaf, Signature consistently high-quality 4 Blend (Espresso) and Seasonal coffee.” JB47-p04-05_JB Golden Bean.indd 4 18/01/2018 23:55:59 JB GOLDEN BEAN AWARDS The event, which has been on record, with more than 200 running for more than 10 years entries from coffee roasting JAMAICA BLUE in Australia, branched out businesses across Australia BLITZED THE FIELD into North America in 2015. It and New Zealand. The judges AT THE 2017 GOLDEN endeavours to find the best diligently sipped their way BEAN ROASTER’S coffee roasting businesses through more than 1,400 COMPETITION, PICKING across a four-day event, which coffees in the blind tastings, UP THE FOLLOWING also includes networking to find the very best brews in AWARDS… opportunities and educational each of the 10 categories. Jamaica Blue – Overall Large workshops for coffee industry The Overall Large Franchise/ Franchise/Chain Store professionals. Chain Store Champion award is Champion Managing Director of Café always hotly-contested, and is Jamaica Blue - Decaf Culture and Event Organiser a remarkable achievement for (Decaffeinated Milk Based) – of Golden Bean, Sean Jamaica Blue. Silver Medal Edwards, says that this years’ “We hold ourselves to the Jamaica Blue - Signature Blend competition was the largest highest standards in sourcing (Espresso) – Silver Medal and roasting great coffee,” Jamaica Blue - Seasonal Single says Jeremy, adding that “to Origin (Filter) – Silver Medal be recognised by our peers in Jamaica Blue - Signature Blend the coffee industry is a great (Milk) – Bronze Medal honour”. In order to receive the Overall Large Franchise/Chain Store Based and Filter categories to Champion award, a coffee determine the overall winner – business must have high- so the win is indicative of our quality roasting across several consistency and commitment categories. The judges add the to our customers, whatever scores from the Espresso, Milk their brew of choice. General Manager, Jamaica Blue, Drew Eide and Head of Coffee, Jeremy Regan www.jamaicablue.com.au 5 JB47-p04-05_JB Golden Bean.indd 5 18/01/2018 23:56:08 JB SPOTLIGHT STORES MALAYSIA CELEBRATES TWO NEW CAFÉS JamaicaJamaicaBlue Blue cafés is expanding its footprint and growing in popularity in Malaysia, with two new store openings in recent months! By Sarah Megginson BREAKING GROUND AT JAMAICA BLUE CAFÉ, SEREMBAN GATEWAY he location of Malayasia’s Seremban Gateway shopping a small meeting or corporate newest Jamaica Blue café complex in Kuala Lumpur, function. With 850 square Tcouldn’t be more fantastic Malaysia. It’s the firstJamaica feet of indoor space, and a – Seremban Gateway is a real Blue outlet to open in Kuala 300 square foot alfresco area, tourist hotspot, right beside the Lumpur outside Klang Valley, it will serve the Jamaica Blue State Museum and State Theatre, and even boasts a small Signature Blend, Jamaica Blue and consists of 45 retail stores playground where the kids can Mountain and Seasonal Single spread over the vast 200,000 entertain themselves while their Origin from Colombia, as well square foot centre. parents enjoy a relaxing cuppa. as a comprehensive food menu 2018 In November 2017, Jamaica It also has a function room, including the Vintage Beef Blue celebrated the opening complete with a projector, Burger, Pasta Boscaiola and of a brand new outlet at the making it a great spot to hold Jamaica Blue Big Breakfast. escape | Autumn jamaicablue 6 JB47-p06-07_Spotlight Stores.indd 6 19/01/2018 0:34:24 JB SPOTLIGHT STORES Franchisee, Mizan LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL GETS A TASTE OF JAMAICA BLUE JAMAICA BLUE LANDS AT THE ROBERTSON Roger and Lydia Kobeck with the Liverpool Hospital team n The Robertson, the new mix- use development project in Roger and Lydia Kobeck are the proud franchisees of our new the Kuala Lumpur city centre, I Jamaica Blue café at Liverpool Hospital in Sydney, which Jamaica Blue’s newest café opened in September 2017. Roger, a shopfitter by trade, has opened its doors in December been working on fitouts for Jamaica Blue for some time, 2017. which inspired him to take the plunge and become part of Situated amidst offices, hotels the Jamaica Blue family!. By Sarah Megginson and hospitals, The Robertson will eventually be home to 11 hen the opportunity to cafés located in shopping floors of commercial space, as to snap up a franchise centres. “We can’t put up posters well as two towers of residential Wpresented itself, Roger and things like you can in a condominiums. didn’t hesitate to pounce, having shopping centre, so our business Boasting three levels of retail experienced first-hand how really comes down to how good lots, including a childcare centre professional and easy to deal with the coffee and food is, and word-of- and gym, and a further eleven the company is. He and Lydia, who mouth.” floors of wholesale stores, the has a background in the travel For this reason, they’re focused commercial tower is a hive of industry, have previously owned on delivering incredible quality activity. Our Jamaica Blue café a coffee shop franchise through when it comes to food, beverages is conveniently located on the another company, and while Lydia and service, he adds. ground floor, in a prominent 1,400 fell in love with the industry, they “There are four other food and square foot corner lot right beside found the support to be lacking. beverage outlets in the hospital, Jada Pudu, the main road and one However, they say the support so we have a one-in-four chance of the busiest streets in Kuala from Jamaica Blue has been of getting the customers in the Lumpur. unbelievable. “Head office have door, then a fifty-fifty chance of It’s sure to be popular with the been fantastic, they’ve been so getting them back, but we already doctors, nurses, administration good to us,” says Roger. “Anything have regulars who come in daily or staff and shoppers who frequent we needed, any help at all, they even a few times a day – it’s a true www.jamaicablue.com.au The Robertson, and will serve the deliver.” testament to the quality of our food Jamaica Blue Signature Blend and When building his premises and our coffee.” Jamaica Blue Mountain coffees, himself, “there were a few extra along with a range of main meals, hurdles to jump,” says Roger, “but Jamaica Blue Liverpool Hosiptal cakes and pastries.