Red Parrot Coffee owner Mike Roycroft on changing the way Australians do business after the coronavirus

Simon McCarthy
June 3 2020 - 6:00pm
OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Red Parrot cafe owner Mike Roycroft, left, with roaster specialists Katie Wells and Rosco Buchanan. Photo: Simone De Peak
OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Red Parrot cafe owner Mike Roycroft, left, with roaster specialists Katie Wells and Rosco Buchanan. Photo: Simone De Peak

How do you convince a truck driver to give up the average instant coffee they've been drinking for years, and extol on them the virtues of a cappuccino?

Simon McCarthy

Simon McCarthy

Journalist, Newcastle Herald

Simon McCarthy is a journalist working at the Newcastle Herald in NSW. He writes news and features, and produces video and multimedia, for the Herald and Herald Weekender magazine. He contributes regularly to the Newcastle Herald’s daily Topics column, and is the co-creator and producer of the Toohey’s News podcast. McCarthy has worked as a journalist in regional NSW since 2013. He joined the newsroom of the Newcastle Herald in 2017 from the Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth where he worked from 2015 to 2016.

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