thus creating a vacancy where it had been! So once again it was off to the Salvation Army superstore in Abbotsford for me - where I picked up a collapsable ten seater table which (I was told) retailed in the latest Ikea catalogue for around a grand!
combine this with ten 'new' (think 1970's original dining room furniture) padded ad wooden chairs - all loaded into the back and on top of my faithful station wagon - and what you have is some seriously increased seating capacity!
the Murray River red gum picnic table which adorns the back yard is also a recent purchase - and this table comfortable seats around ten people - so that means that we have effectively increased our seating capacity by around 20pax - or around 30 per cent - in the last week!
this led to a bumper trade today (Saturday) with just about every seat in the house full all morning and over lunch (thank goodness the weather held) - and Alicia and I crafting some wicked coffees on the coffee machine!
was well pleased today not only with how well but how swiftly the coffees came out today - which in itself is no mean feet as we use a double ristretto as the basis for all our shots and given the setup we can run such shots for 50sec or more - meaning that at present we can only craft three coffees at a time, and that these coffees can take up to three minutes combined just to pour from the machine!
Try telling that to the customer - the don't want to know!
anyway - we were all over it today like white on rice - which hasn't stopped me from investing in a new two group compact espresso machine - which I hope to have installed by the end of the week
this will seriously bring our capacity up and give us added fire power and flexibility especially on the weekends - when we need it most
it also frees up the second barista to pull shots and craft their own milk if they need to do so - rather than just waiting on their buddy to do so - exciting times indeed!
Peace Out - Pat x
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