New Hours of Coffee
If you've been around since the early days, you'll remember we used to be open LONG hours. I think it was 7a-9p every day. Monday through Sunday. All day every day. What an exhausting schedule that can become. At some point, about three and a half years ago, I decided to take this thing on by myself. Without employees, I worked open-to-close every day, tried to keep up with the administrative things that needed to be done in order to stay in operation, roasted coffee a couple times per week, and even visited Hacienda La Minita in Costa Rica during that span. I was a zombie. It was shortly after that began when I decided to abbreviate our hours of operation.
Three years ago this July, I hired Isaiah and together we worked our asses off catching up from 10 months of ridiculously hard work. It probably took me a year or more to catch up from that, physically. In November 2008 I hired Garth, who has been a solid barista for us. He makes me laugh. Jason left again in November 2009 as soon as I returned from Colombia. Isaiah, Garth, and I killed ourselves through the holidays, all the while they were training for the barista competition.
A couple of weeks ago I hired Michael Feamster. He's the Newguy. Michael has been a barista for a long time and wants to work in the coffee industry long-term. That's what we're looking for. We love coffee and it's our career. Michael is from Tulsa, but moved out to one of the Carolinas (I forget now) for a couple years, and just moved back when I offered him a job here. I think he's going to be a great addition to the small crew we have.
So we are adding a few hours to the DoubleShot Hours of Coffee.
Here are the new hours.
M-F 7a-530p
Sa 8a-3p
Su 8a-NOON
That's right. Starting this Sunday, 8a-noon. Come get some.
posted by Brian at 6:23 AM
2 Comments:
Yay! Hope it works out. I appreciate you trying new hours -- more doubleshot is always better for me, though it makes sense that more doubleshot might not be the best for you or the business.
If you guys "killed" yourselves through the holidays... how'd you blog this after the holidays? Ghosts? Or did Bob have his hand on the ouija keyboard?
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