Kozy Cafe: January 2006

Things are still coming together. We are getting ready to stain all the floors, that is a lot of work the last three owners painted one coat or color right on top of the next one so we have to scrape all of it off. The last owner could have just taken care of the wood floors as opposed to ripping them out then we would just have to do the kitchen. Oh well it will look better this way and way easier to keep clean. The wall building is about to begin, we are trying to get everything reorganized again so the wall won't push anything back. I am developing a gluten free recipe book for myself, the only thing is I can't seem to get all the ingredients together or at least a list of what I need because I keep finding more recipes I would like to try. Nick is getting together all the information for our corporate customers so we can try to retrieve those accounts. We do corporate customer appreciation programs with the bunt cakes and specialized tins and we are trying to get local companies involved. We also have created a corporate lunch catering menu but that is still moving in baby steps. Jenci and Jeff will be back in town next week so hopefully we can get a little more rest and maybe a day off. It will be good to have them here to finish making the final decisions. It seems like we are all having a hard time deciding what the name should be. I guess that would be the hardest part of this whole thing. We will hopefully have a name by the end of next week. The ideas have been One Way cafe, Cafe Trio, Trio Cafe, and the latest one is Cafe Cache. We will all have to really be here to make that decision.

The cafe is slowly coming along. We have a menu and are trying to make way with the pastries (thats my job). The business is slowly increasing, it is exciting to see new faces and always a treat to see the people that i know. Tomorrow is our first regular crepe night and we haven't really tried to push it just word of mouth really we are really hoping we can catch some of the people from the bars or late night shoppers. Who wouldn't want coffee at 10 o'clock. We will have to just try to make more signs or more flyers but it truly is a learning experience every time we do something once we see the simplicity of the next time. We had the original artist of a painting dis[layed outside come in to see us today. She is going to replace the previous owners name and picture with ours. She is really excited about the cafe, it is so refreshing to have another person see the dream and want to lift it up. She is a local artist in Dallas and she is going to help us get local art on display in the store. It is still a work in progress but i will post a picture. My mom was in yesterday, she lives in houston is it was her first time to see what we had created. She was so proud and hungry too. haha we packed her car full of cakes to trek back to houston. We might develop a market, i wish. well things are moving slow but it gives us a chance to get things in order. It is so funny how it becomes an event when someone orders a snadwich or something off the menu, Both of us have done large volume baking and cooking. it just cracks me up i had lost hope that feeling could return after the mass producing i had been doing before, all of us Nick was doing 300 to 500 heads a night at the restaurant he worked at. Jeff works in New York, Period. that is all you have to say about that. I gotta get back to work