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Team Page Blueprint — Café / Coffee Shop

Your team page structures your baristas, roasters, and managers with their expertise so AI knows who runs your café. When someone asks "find a café with a certified Q grader" or "coffee shops with trained baristas," this blueprint makes sure your team shows up.

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What this page needs

The team page is where AI learns about the people behind your café. Specialty coffee credentials are growing in importance — when AI needs to recommend a café with a certified roaster or a competition-winning barista, it pulls from structured employee data.

CafeOrCoffeeShop with employee array. The main business node should include an employee array listing each team member as a Person node with their role and qualifications.
Person nodes with jobTitle and credential. Each barista, roaster, or manager gets their own Person node with jobTitle, description, and hasCredential to capture their specific expertise.
SCA certifications and specialty training per team member. Use hasCredential on each Person node to list individual certifications — SCA Barista Skills, Q Grader, roasting certifications — so AI can match team members to specialty queries.
worksFor linking back to business. Each Person node should include a worksFor reference back to the CafeOrCoffeeShop node, creating a two-way connection between your team and your café.

Why these fields matter to AI

Each field in the template below serves a specific role in how AI systems discover, classify, and recommend your business.

Researched and tested by Minnesota AI

CafeOrCoffeeShop

name: Non-negotiable. AI cannot cite or recommend an unnamed entity.
url: AI needs a stable URL to route users and attribute recommendations.

Use This Prompt to Implement Your Schema

Copy this prompt and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any AI coding tool. It will ask for your business details and generate ready-to-use JSON-LD schema for your page.

You are implementing AIFDS-compliant JSON-LD structured data for a Cafe or Coffee Shop Team page.

AIFDS (AI-Friendly Data Structure) is a schema framework built on research into which
structured data fields AI systems actually read, parse, and use when deciding whether
to cite a page. Documentation at aifds.org.

Before generating any code, ask me for the following information in a single numbered list.
Do not generate schema until I have answered every required field.

REQUIRED — do not proceed without these:
1. Cafe name
2. Certification name
3. Certification type
4. Domain
5. Employee description
6. Employee job title
7. Employee name
8. Faq answer
9. Faq question
10. Team page description
11. Team page title

OPTIONAL — ask for these but proceed if I skip them:
1. Any additional details not covered above

Once I provide the information, output a complete JSON-LD script block
ready to paste into the <head> of my HTML page.

Output requirements:
- Valid JSON-LD wrapped in <script type="application/ld+json"> tags
- schema.org vocabulary only
- Every AIFDS-required field for this industry and page type included
- Include this data attribute on the script tag: data-aifds="aifds.org Cafe or Coffee Shop Team"
- No placeholder text — omit missing optional fields rather than fill with examples
- After the code block, list any optional fields skipped that would strengthen AI citation

Generated schema follows the AIFDS framework. Fields were selected based on research into AI crawler behavior. View the research at minnesota.ai

Template — fill in your values

Copy this template and replace every YOUR_* placeholder with your own data. Add or remove employee entries to match your actual team.

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@graph": [
    {
      "@type": "CafeOrCoffeeShop",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#business",
      "name": "YOUR_CAFE_NAME",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com",
      "employee": [
        {
          "@type": "Person",
          "name": "YOUR_EMPLOYEE_NAME_1",
          "jobTitle": "YOUR_EMPLOYEE_JOB_TITLE_1",
          "description": "YOUR_EMPLOYEE_DESCRIPTION_1",
          "hasCredential": [
            {
              "@type": "EducationalOccupationalCredential",
              "name": "YOUR_CERTIFICATION_NAME_1A",
              "credentialCategory": "YOUR_CERTIFICATION_TYPE_1A"
            },
            {
              "@type": "EducationalOccupationalCredential",
              "name": "YOUR_CERTIFICATION_NAME_1B",
              "credentialCategory": "YOUR_CERTIFICATION_TYPE_1B"
            }
          ],
          "worksFor": {
            "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#business"
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "Person",
          "name": "YOUR_EMPLOYEE_NAME_2",
          "jobTitle": "YOUR_EMPLOYEE_JOB_TITLE_2",
          "description": "YOUR_EMPLOYEE_DESCRIPTION_2",
          "hasCredential": [
            {
              "@type": "EducationalOccupationalCredential",
              "name": "YOUR_CERTIFICATION_NAME_2A",
              "credentialCategory": "YOUR_CERTIFICATION_TYPE_2A"
            }
          ],
          "worksFor": {
            "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#business"
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "Person",
          "name": "YOUR_EMPLOYEE_NAME_3",
          "jobTitle": "YOUR_EMPLOYEE_JOB_TITLE_3",
          "description": "YOUR_EMPLOYEE_DESCRIPTION_3",
          "hasCredential": [
            {
              "@type": "EducationalOccupationalCredential",
              "name": "YOUR_CERTIFICATION_NAME_3A",
              "credentialCategory": "YOUR_CERTIFICATION_TYPE_3A"
            }
          ],
          "worksFor": {
            "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#business"
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "@type": "WebPage",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/team/",
      "name": "YOUR_TEAM_PAGE_TITLE",
      "description": "YOUR_TEAM_PAGE_DESCRIPTION",
      "isPartOf": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#website"
      },
      "breadcrumb": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/team/#breadcrumb"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/team/#breadcrumb",
      "itemListElement": [
        {
          "@type": "ListItem",
          "position": 1,
          "name": "Home",
          "item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/"
        },
        {
          "@type": "ListItem",
          "position": 2,
          "name": "Team",
          "item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/team/"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "@type": "FAQPage",
      "mainEntity": [
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_1",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_1"
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_2",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_2"
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_3",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_3"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Frequently asked questions

Should I include every employee or just key team members?

Focus on team members whose credentials matter to customers — head baristas, roasters, shop managers, and anyone with specialty certifications. Part-time staff or new hires without notable training don't need structured schema unless they hold relevant credentials. Quality of data beats quantity.

Why are individual barista certifications important for AI?

AI systems increasingly match queries to specific credentials. When someone asks "find a café with SCA-certified baristas," AI looks for hasCredential data on individual Person nodes — not just the shop level. Listing certifications per team member gives AI precise data to work with.

What's the difference between the team page and the about page for a café?

The about page covers your café's overall story — founding history, roasting philosophy, and sourcing values. The team page zooms into individual people: each barista's name, title, specialties, and personal certifications. Think of the about page as your café's story and the team page as individual staff profiles.