Iced tea season might be here a little ahead of schedule this year, but May is always a perfectly good month to get started. With specialty tea becoming more popular, your iced tea offerings should be in great demand. Amazingly diverse and wonderfully refreshing, iced tea can both quench the thirst and convert the masses to the wonders of full-leaf tea.

While many people may not normally be tea drinkers in cooler weather, these same folks tend to consume iced tea regularly in warm weather. What better time to illustrate the deliciousness of high quality tea than during this tea-favorable season?

If using loose-leaf tea for your iced tea menu, be sure to promote this fact. Offer a visual display or pictures of your glorious leaf to take full advantage of your teas' superiority. Devise a creative iced tea menu that includes at least one non-flavored black and green tea, and a couple caffeine-free choices. Fruit tisanes make for delicious and refreshing chilled beverages, as do some green rooibos, rooibos and honeybush blends... more

Coming up soon is the 2012 World Tea Expo! Once again convening in Las Vegas, June 1-3 are this year's dates for the specialty tea industry’s business-to-business event.

This year is extra special: with the World Tea Expo celebrating its 10th anniversary this year with all new educational sessions, some new exhibitors, exciting events and a big party on June 2 at the Las Vegas Hotel and Casino.

If you are going, please visit us - Adagio Teas - at booth number 625! We love having this opportunity to meet with you all and hear about your business and tea adventures. Through this exchange we get to learn more about your business and determine additional ways in which we might assist.

In addition to getting to meet with our wonderful clients, we enjoy seeing how everyone in the industry is doing. The tea business' growth has been amazing in the past year and we look forward to learning about new trends. Educational and inspirational, the World Tea Expo is an e.. more

Spring and summer are busy times for tea room owners. Here are some answers to our most frequent questions about Teamap:

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Reviews over 365 days old are automatically removed from Teamap. This is to ensure relevance as so much can change in a year. You may wish to mention Teamap to your customers to encourage more frequent reviews.

Help! I have a bad review! What can I do?

Don't panic! Simply log in and respond to the review graciously. Thank the reviewer for taking the time to share their experience so you can learn from it and if you are inclined, invite them back. Other potential customers are aware that you cannot please all the people all the time. They will likely be impressed by your openness to critique.

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Rankings are determined by an automated system that looks at many different factors. One of these factors is certainly reviews, but other criteria are also considered... more