Starting Menu Photos
Happy Saturday! We were super close to being open this weekend again! More on that in a minute, right now I’m drinking cold brew at Spring Park Coffee in well, Spring Park Florida. the drive here from south Jax is beautiful, and the atmosphere in here is always super nice. Spacious and comfortable with that high ceiling whether it’s loud or quiet, one of the few places I don’t mind taking my headphones out and just chillin’. This week, we got a signature from the city to open ahead of our final bit of construction, but since we got it on Friday we weren’t able to open this weekend.
So what’s left?
That’s a pretty constant question about the cafe, but one I’m pretty happy to answer right now. We just have to replace the current bathroom fan with a better one, and add another exhaust above our mop sink. Since neither are required to make the cafe safe, and they’ll be done soon, I’m pursuing an early occupancy while we wait on those materials and work to be done. To early occupy I need a signature from the city mechanical inspector, and our city building inspector. I have one signature, I was supposed to get the other on Friday but there wasn’t enough time. So I’ll be back on Monday morning and hopefully then we’re all good.
It’s not usually that easy, but if it is this time, I’d like to be open on Wednesday or Thursday.
What else has been happening this week?
Well i’ve been working like crazy at side jobs, putting in hours and popping in at the cafe to photograph our menu. I was able to give out some of those picture perfect drinks to our neighbors, and got some super valuable feedback. I noticed what people gravitated towards, and how they understood or didn’t understand the phrasing. I was told “hey this isn’t sweet enough” on a drink that had no sugar and was like, “oh yea not everyone drinks black coffee.” I reworked that drink and brought them new samples, then got the thumbs up. I made a few other drinks that people were blown away by, and that was really encouraging.
I’m mainly taking pictures to accompany our “how to make” booklet for employees, something that was partially inspired by an old UK Kitchen Nightmares episode. I’ll also be making a story thread on instagram for our menu, and maybe adding it to our website. We get a surprising number of people checking our site from desktop, so that might work well for them. Here are a couple of those pics.
Talk to you hopefully later this week! have a great weekend everyone, -Elias
