New Records this week...

Well, another week is almost behind us. We have set some new records this week, which is very exciting for us! We set new records for the most customers in a day (125), most sales in a day ($575), and we've had over 100 customers a day for 4 out of 5 days this week. We have already exceeded last weeks sales figures (which was a new record last week) and we still have Saturday's sales to go! Thanks again to all of the people out there who are coming to our shop and supporting us!

We had a lady come in and say she came down from Denver because she heard about how good our coffee is! She is a state legislator, and she heard from another state legislator about us. That's our tax dollars at work... state legislators driving around the state to get coffee!! LOL I would like to have the entire Colorado Senate and House come down here for coffee. I'll pay my taxes all day long if they want great coffee from us!

I stayed up until 1:00 or 2:00 am pretty much every night this week working on the RMCC Camp photos and video. I got the photos edited (several examples are posted below) and I ordered the 90 5x7 images of the group photo. I made a 24 minute long DVD movie set to music to show the photos in a dynamic way. I'll post it at www.photodex.com and send a link so you can watch it, if desired. I delivered the DVD and photos today and the project is 100% complete! Woo Hoo, I get to sleep tonight.

We had a new customer come in today (he reminded me of a younger Ty Pennington). He is a personal trainer (so is his wife) at World Gym, but he also has a side business doing web design. As it turns out, we need a web site, and he needs a professional photographer. They need photos of their clients, to use as before and after shots along with the client's testimonials for their advertising. He also needs photos for his website design at times. We were discussing prices/rates/costs, and we finally decided to just trade services. Soooooo..... we should have a web site up soon!

Our air conditioning went out today and it was 85 degrees inside the cafe when I got back from dropping off the DVD and photos. It was even hotter in the back room and behind the bar. This is the second time in a month the AC has been out. Our property manager had a repair tech here within 30 minutes and all is good again. Originally, it was in our lease that we are responsible for all maintenance, repairs, and replacement on the RTU's (roof top units - heat and AC). We refused to sign the lease like that and had the owner take all maintenance and replacement responsibility. It has saved us a lot of money twice already. I wonder how many people sign commercial leases without really reading it, or without counter offering on some items?? Our lease was 29 pages, and we had changes made to almost every single page. If you don't look out for yourself, who will??? Definitely not your property manager...

Well, gotta run.
Take care,
JD