Moving Concrete! Admin Tasks!
Happy Saturday! I'm listening to Sunny Day Service's "tokyo" album (90's mellow Jpop) and drinking this super strawberry yogurt forward Colombian natural from Cupa Roasters in Orlando. Just ran by the farmers market at Riverside and got produce for the week. Gonna make it my mission to check out the Mandarin market near Tetherball next weekend or ASAP!
This week construction began with a couple bumps.
We had a miscommunication that resulted in all our concrete rubble being put in the neighbors trash on Monday! Our neighbors let us know and the next morning I got the guys together to remove it. Thankfully everyone was pretty cool about it and I finally got some use out of Carhartt overalls I've had for awhile, dusting them in concrete.
Another miscommunication resulted in LED light panels being put in, something I would have liked but didn't think we could afford this late in to the project. I was planning on just replacing the bulbs and covers of our current lights, but this rules! and is going to save us a ton on electricity too.
Now it's time to think about opening tasks.
We should complete construction by the end of the month, so along with that physical work I'm getting started on admin tasks and a timeline for them. Adding ourselves to google once we have an opening date, creating inventory and task sheets for the day to day of the shop, even just creating a website to make hiring more streamlined!
The two most common emails I get each week are from wholesale distributers and website builders. I appreciate it! but I like building websites they're fun : )
I'm stoked to dive in to all that publicly facing digital design! Especially stuff like employee job outlines and questionnaires! There are some cool physical design ideas we're working on too, but I'm saving those for the reveal of the actual shop, I don't want to spoil everything as it comes. Here's one small thing, some business cards that came in this week:
For now it's back to the nitty gritty admin work, I just finished "Restaurant Prosperity Formula" and it was a great book! It made me think critically about a lot things, and prepared me well for task sheets, prices and more. sooo, back to those!
Have a good weekend everyone, thanks for reading! ~Elias
