Welcome to Sip of Europe

Hi! My name is Yulia!

My business Sip of Europe® started as a coffee cart 10 years ago, grew into a 5* rated cafe that was up and running for over 4 years, transformed into a few fun pop ups in New York City and now I am working on combining my passion for offering the best food and travel advice through my APP!

After working in 20+ hospitality roles across management, operations, service, and business development, I’ve gained a deep understanding of how every part of the hospitality industry functions.

Each position refined my leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills, and taught me how exceptional guest experiences are built from both sides – the service floor and the business strategy.

I’ve already created core structure and navigation, main pages, currently working on workflows hopefully launching by the end of January.

While i am still finishing up working on the app, feel free to read about my journey below!

As a Sip of Europe® cafe owner I hosted 3 successful Yelp Elite Events

1) Yelp’s Taste, Savor, and Sip of Europe 2016

2) Yelp’s Adventurous Dinner Party 2018

3) Yelp Savors The Flavors From Beyond The Pond 2019

Brief history of Sip of Europe:

I opened up a coffee cart in May 25th 2015 in Old Orchard Beach Maine;

then catered for Martin’s Point Health Care in October 2015.

Permanent Cafe opened on the 26th of March 2016. It has been licensed as food establishment with dining, got wholesale bakery license, wine license.

In 2018 my cafe won the last Portland Phoenix awards ceremony for best crepes.

Not only I was making regular crepes and the ones with flavored batter chocolate, dill & onion) but I was also making crepe cakes, cakes and desserts. I even sold a few crepe cakes in the heart of Boston!

I started my BIG PROJECT in 2017 by creating handmade desserts called ZefirChic®. After it was proven to be shelf stable I applied for a few trademarks and was granted those in the USA (ZefirChic®, Low in calories, high in happiness!®, ZefirChic Rose®) and Canada (ZefirChic®).

Not only I was offering my dessert to locals but I also arranged a pop up in New York, went to a Fancy Food Show to see the competition, hosted an event in Westbrook Maine.

In 2020 I got lucky to be invited to an online streaming “Tea With Gary Vee”. Gary Vaynerchuk is one of my favorite entrepreneurs and his background allowed him to appreciate my efforts to promote my dessert.

Due to the lease termination I closed café on the day when it turned 4 years 4 months maintaining 5* out of 5* stars as a hospitality & food & beverage business. 5 main review platforms have been keeping such a high rating: Facebook, Yelp, TripAdvisor, UberEats, Square.

Out of respect and fascination of businesses that started in Portland Maine, I decided to create 20 social media audits for different f&b categories of my favorite businesses, highlighting the strengths of their profiles and giving some ideas of enhancements. You can see them on my website www.zefirchic.marketing

I saw a lot of gaps in business and digital strategies of so many restaurants, bars and food providers, that I decided to create a free SOCIAL MEDIA AUDIT checklist FOR INSTAGRAM and Guide on how to implement the basic knowledge of Instagram for enhancing online presence of a brand.