Hard Open So Far!

Good Morning!! I’m drinking so much good coffee, I’ve been pretty busy, did like half our sales goal in the first two hours! Just did some prep work on IG live and that was a pretty fun time. Just had a little run club run through. Oh man, it’s been steady! I’m listening to The Spinners, “Second Time Around” album. Very fun upbeat Pop/soul/R&B music. I feel like to be honest and constructive I’ve gotta be a little negative first so let’s get that out of the way.

I’m BEAT!

I put in my two weeks at my second job, but i’ve still got one week left and it’s rough. I’m up at 5am taking my vitamins, i’m stretching, I’m heading in to work with ENERGY! But my second job is immediately after, physical, and sometimes as late as 10pm. I’ve gotta do it for the money, I’m thinking long term, I’m excited to sleep next Sunday when it’s over haha. I’m super grateful that i’m getting basically the perfect volume for my situation, not too crazy busy and not too dead. It means I can put in my two weeks and not just do this forever.

It’s been really good at Tetherball again this week!

We had banana bread and chocolate cake during the week and sold out one day! We’re gonna have that back next week. We got some more coffee in, and had just enough to squeeze by every day with espresso pour overs and retail! We had a few days well above our sales goal, and a couple that were under.

Super positive still!

Last week I talked about how positive everyone has been, and that’s continued! I’ve heard “this is the best decaf latte i’ve ever had” which is super awesome, I love blowing minds on the really nice decaf we have here. I’ve been selling a ton of our vanilla caramel “hopscotch” lattes and getting lots of instagram tags for those. Pulling people from the neighborhood and people from instagram pretty consistently. I’ve been putting most of my focus on IG so that’s been good to see. I’ve had a lot of returning guests from both sides!

We were featured on Sprudge!

We submitted the shop build well before we were open, and kind of scrambled to get those pictures ready in time. Sprudge would have been the first people to see the interior, and the shots turned out pretty good if a bit dark, so I was so so stoked to see our article go up with everything intact! I talked a little about this in the IG post, but i’m a big sprudge fan so that was like the peak of what I hoped to accomplish in the “scene”! Nobody told us it was going up, so it was really weird to get a congratulations text before finding out haha. It would be pretty incredible if that post made it on to their IG, i’m sure we’d see a lot of traction from that.

The next project is to party!

I’m gathering sponsors for an event in a few weeks, and I’ve got a lot of people on board so far! I’m kind of worried it’ll be too big of a party for our space haha, but it’s nice to know so many people are interested in putting it together. Anyways, look forward to that announcement next week! Thanks for reading! -Elias