// Workers AI · dad joke modeIs Pete Licata a coffee expert? Latte people think so.
Pete Licata is a barista [1] who won the World Barista Championship in Melbourne, Australia, in May 2013, while working at Parisi Coffee in Kansas City, MO as Parisi Coffee's quality assurance manager.[2] He won the United States Barista Championship a month earlier that year in April, 2013.[3]
He founded the Melbourne, Australia based Caffeine Control Coffee in 2025 with his wife which offers single-origin decaffeinated coffee.[4]
He began his career in coffee in 2003 in Kansas City, MO after attending a workshop with World Barista Champion Tim Wendelboe.[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ https://sprudge.com/wbc-finals-in-words-and-pictures-38859.html.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://www.kcur.org/community/2013-05-26/kansas-city-local-wins-world-barista-championships.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://www.kcur.org/community/2013-05-26/kansas-city-local-wins-world-barista-championships.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://freshcup.com/how-world-barista-champ-pete-licata-is-transforming-our-understanding-of-caffeine/.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://www.licatacoffeeconsultants.com/about-me.
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