Good point, I hadn’t thought about bagels and fruit.
Hmm…coffee shop. Coffee (regular, decaf, flavored) and tea (nice brands of tea are popular around here, but it depends on who your clientele is; can you do a survey?); pastries (are these donut and danish people or bagel and croissant people?); fruits/veggies if you get any type of lunch crowd; soups; sandwiches on a variety of breads. Different types of pop. Maybe even some ice cream? Juice? Breakfast sandwiches?
Where is your building? What kinds of businesses are nearby? What kind of facility will you have? How much of a kitchen?
I keep coming back to “it depends on your potential clientele” and “can you take a survey?” Sounds like a fun challenge. A lot of the above is based on the coffee shop in the building where I work. They actually offer a bit more than that. Also, are there any similarly-located coffee shops you could visit to get ideas?
And on preview, I see you have a list. I like McUne’s list too. I like the weekly specials ideas and the punch card idea, too. Only other thing that occurs to me is that you should probably start out with a little bit less variety and then add as you see what’s popular or what doesn’t work. But I have to say that several of your items are ones I would have and sound YUM. (The scones and pound cake, especially…)
Thanks for the endorsement, MamaT. When I bought the house, I used Glidden in most of the rooms and Behr (mostly their porch and floor paint) in several other places. The Glidden has been OK, but I used white and off-white and I’m now venturing into a bit more color and like Behr’s colors better. Also, their paint seemed to be slightly better quality and this is the longer-term paint job (although the current one has lasted 9 years, which seems quite good).
I think I have all my colors selected for pretty much the whole house (except maybe the spare bedroom, although there I think I already have two or three quarts of paint that will probably do for one of the walls. And, now that I think about it, a gallon of very light blue paint that a friend gave me. That might be enough for the whole room. Of course, that may be the room where I do something completely different from the rest of the house.
Clearly, rigs, everyone needs at least 52 t-shirts that fit so that they are not worn more than 7 times a year because, you know, it would be tragic if they were seen in the same t-shirt more often than that. :rolleyes: 
I’m tired now, so I guess I’ll think about crawling into bed…
GT
CDTs or Cinnamon Dessert Thingys
2 packages Pillsbury Crescent dinner rolls
2-8oz Philadelphia Cream cheese packages
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup sugar
Topping:
1/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup butter
Butter 9X13 inch pan. Cover bottom of pan with one entire package of crescent rolls (push together sections and roll out to make one piece).
Filling:
Whip together cream cheese, vanilla and sugar. Add filling on top of crescent rolls. Cover filling with other package of crescent rolls. Melt butter and cover crescent roll. Mix sugar and cinnamon in one bowl and sprinkle over top. Bake at 350 F for 20-25 minutes. Let cool before serving.
YUM!!!
Is this going to be open all day? If so I second the ideas of sandwiches (simple) and soups, maybe a couple salads? There is a place downtown that I LOVE that sells just salads and pastas for lunch and they are SO delish. They are always PACKED. So good. Great, now I want one of their salads. Also what about Pie? You need to have Pie there CutiePie. 
I like GT’s idea about starting out slow and when you first open toss out a survey.
I had another comment, but I can’t remember it right now…my memory is crap.
OMG, Pie, that sounds so goood! And easy!
Not much to add. I’ve had a busy day. Mr Rebo is installing the door handle and lock that the door guy was supposed to do. Dad was told not to do ANYTHING - including paying the guy - until we inspected his work. He paid him anyway. :rolleyes: Now of course the guy doesn’t answer his phone. Asshole contractors. We’ve told Dad to stop payment on his check.
I remember, I remember!
I’m trying to eat healthier, and avoid all places that don’t offer something semi-healthy. I would offer a few things that are sorta healthy. I can only take so much sugary sweet stuff, especially in the morning.
Those CDTs sound like crack to me. All they need is chocolate and I’m a goner.
I am DONE with #1 son’s room–comforter is in the wash. 2 Hefty garbage bags and 4 loads of laundry (excluding the comforter). For some reason I cannot find the pillowcases to his set of gray sheets. 
I listened to Tom Lehrer, which made the whole thing bearable. Dusted, vacuumed, tidied. I found $45 in random bills, and 12 empty deodorant containers under his bed.
No porn, no drugs, nothing wild, reckless or dangerous. I’m not sure if I’m relieved or disappointed! (I wouldn’t care about porn or weed–anything else, major Trouble).
And now Daughter, who must be busy every day of the week, wants me to go to OakBrook (high end shopping plaza) tomorrow, because she wants to find out about Macs (her graduation present is a laptop). I don’t want to go. I tend to do lots of work, interspersed with down days where I sit on my porch and read. Gah.
TH is home and VEB is blaming TH for all the troubles. He is saying that TH “betrayed” him to the authorities etc. IMO, he needs to get the hell out of there, but only after the regulators are done–otherwise, TH is not there to defend his name/actions. I no longer believe that corporate America runs smoothly or wisely. They’re just a bunch of morons chasing drama. :rolleyes:
Off to bed soon–the bathrooms didn’t get cleaned today because #1 son’s room took too long. <sigh>
ARRRRRRRRRRRRGH!
Ahhh. That’s a little better. I had one of those calls where the guy Would Not Stop Talking. As in, I was on the phone with him for a solid half-hour, as opposed to five ten minutes. It got to be time for me to go home, and he just kept going and going and going and going…his heavy accent didn’t help, either. Nice guy, but…aaaagh!
The only problem in customer service is the customers. 
When come back bring wedding cake?
The deal is done and the knot is tied.
Actually, to “tie the knot” is a reference to a Pagan ceremony known as a handfasting, and we were handfasted at Faire five years ago.
I lost count of how many people were in the house - somewhere around 25 or 30, I think. When we have the “real” ceremony in December, we will need to do much better at keeping track of how many people or the caterer will either clobber us physically or financially if more people show up than planned for. Probably both.
We’ll have real-live, honest to goodness professional photographers in December. On Saturday, we just had a couple random pocket cameras, and only a handful of pictures were presentable. For the curious, they’re over here: http://www.passwordmuseum.com/wedding.htm
And yes, we got about 30-40 seconds of air time on KRON-4’s live broadcast of the San Francisco Pride Parade on Sunday. Fairly amazing, seeing as the program was only two hours long, including commercial breaks. Henry’s a nice guy - we’ve both met him a time or two off camera before. Once we finished up with him (time is short, the parade keeps moving and the next contingent was about to run us over!) we hustled back up to our contingent, jabbering "ohmigawdohmigawdwewerejustinterviewedoncameraohmigawdIcan’tbelieveitHenryactuallytalkedtousonTV!! And sure enough, when we watched the program at home later that night, there we were!
Argh. I have spent the entire evening semi-zoned out. Clearly, this was not my day to get anything done.
Congrats, gotti! You look like a very happy couple – I’m so glad you’re finally able to actually tie the knot, Pagan ceremony or otherwise!
Grey sheets for your son’s room, eh, Rigs? What a good idea. I should have done that for Young Tiger when he was in his “I’ll wash my sheets sometime next year, don’t bother me about it!” phase. (Which, thank Og, the Air Force cured him of in short order!) That dig-out is always so fun, isn’t it? I am so glad that I only have my own crap to dig out these days.
Although I still remember when my mother found my father’s hidden stash of Playboys in the basement. Hee!
I second the suggestion of something not intensely sugary for the coffee shop, Pie. Bagels with an assortment of light flavored cream cheeses can be a very popular offering, and fruit is always good. If they offer a sliced mango cup, I’ll come out there and try the coffee shop for myself! Nom nom, mango! Or other fresh fruit or melon or berries, seasonally offered, of course.
Okay, I should stop yammering and go to sleep. Maybe tomorrow I can get some work done. I actually started to be productive at one point, which immediately caused a brief thunderstorm to pass over us and Rusty to spend half an hour freaking out, mostly under my desk or trying to crawl into places he’s not allowed (like the tangle of computer cords under Papa Tigs’ desk – the stoopid dog has nearly pulled his monitor off more than once :rolleyes: ). By the time we got him settled down, I had lost that teensy speck of motivation. Sigh. Maybe it will return tomorrow. When come back, bring Wannas, pls? kthxbai!
Aw, gotti, you guys look so cute! So which one are you–the short one with the boots or the tall one with the extravagantly patterned Utilikilt? 
That cake looked very nommy, too… mmmm, caaaaake!
Pie, gots to have ze bagels-and-schmear, mang! Some of us don’t eat the sweet stuff for breakfast much. Scones are nice, peach and razzberry and booberry and marionberry with a little bit of powdered sugar on the top. Quiche is a lovely, light lunch option that can be varied with seasonal veggies or local cheeses/meats. Panini sammiches are very popular around here, because you can make them ahead of time and wrap 'em up in plastic wrap then throw them on the grill thingy to heat up. Decide on maybe 6-10 different muffins but only make 3-4 per day and rotate to keep people interested. This is a local place that does land office business every day–maybe get some good ideas here. Their muffins are humongous but incredibly good–especially the carrot cake ones with the cream cheese frosting, guuuuuhhh! Granola in cups layered with yogurt and fruit, for the more health conscious.
Rigs, you are a better mom than I by far–I would never clean a teenager’s room because I’d be way too afraid of either catching something or getting bit by something. I’d clean a teenaged boy’s room with a firehose!
Sorry about that, Pugs, hope that’s the end of it…
Kai, are you SURE those are the same puppies? 'Cuz the last time we saw them a kid was holding all four in her hands at once! They grow so fast–but them’s still very tiny doggies and so kyoot yes dems is, woogie woogie… Somebody slap me, please-- :smack:–Okay, all bettah now!
So this evening I went to an East County organization meeting for the Obama campaign and I came up with so many good ideas about places to set up voter registration that it looks like I’m going to have to implement some of them myself. Ah well, that’ll teach me to speak up! I’ve known I have this insufficient reluctance issue since back in my SCA days and by now you think I’d have learned but NOOO! Well, good excuse to rope the family in to help, they’re all political animals and it’s good practice for 'em.
One of the organizing fellows who’ve volunteered to work full time here in PDX this summer is a sixteen year old kid from San Francisco who’s been a precinct captain and says this is his fifth campaign! :eek: I wonder if he’s gonna be too burnt out on politics to vote two years from now…
Oh good lord look at the time–g’night!
Good morning. Only one more night of work before I’m off to Vermont. I must leave the city every 7/4. If I told you why you’d think I was nuts (or at least more nuts).
This may be my second to last MMP for awhile too kids, guess what I just saw:
Yup, I expire on the twelfth.
twelfthtwelfthtwelfthtwelfthtwelfthtwelfthtwelfthtwelfth (I just think it’s a funny word)
So, gotti and DH how y’all doin’? 
Seriously congratulations and jake on the interview.
Beebs just reup before you leave. Problem solved.
Mornin’ Y’all! I am up and caffienatin’ although I have no idea why this early. Well, it might have to do with bein’ sound asleep around eight thirty last night. I got sleepy and crashed! Slept until a bit after four this mornin’, so I guess I got all slept out. Anywho, only half a day today then I’m off the rest of the week! YAY!
Ok, need more caffiene and brekkies.
Great photos, gotti and DH - I’m all for more pics of men in kilts!
Well, it looks like Tin Knickers is either still crying or she’s having a full-on sulk now. She’s not been up to the office, no phone calls, no emails, nothing. Not a peep. Not that I don’t like it that way, don’t get me wrong…but just a little reaction to my decision would be good.
I won’t hold my breath.
Yep.
Congratulations!!!
Thanks for all the ideas, guys. This is an interesting situation all the way around. I don’t have the $$ to start up the coffee shop, so it’s likely that my landlord will become my silent partner. I’m not sure how this will all work to make it fair to both of us.
g’morning all, up and caffeinating here… running a bit late too!
Congratulations, Gotti and spouse; you do make a handsome couple.
Hope to get more time to post later, but I’m so late this morning that I gotta run … vroom! Hugs and good wishes to all who need them.
kai - those puppies are as cute and as furry as kittehs!
off to work - if it’s not too humid, and this room is bearable this evening, I’ll try to catch up - so no 15 paragraph posts, please.
eta:
Happy Canada Day to the Canuck Mumpers
Please explain the following sign to me as seen on a plumber’s truck on the way to work this morning:
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23 1/2 hour drain service**
So, if you call in that 1/2 hour that they’re not open you’re SOL?
Hi rosie! Good to see you. I’ll start working on my epic novel again later today here in the MMP.
Really, rosie , don’t tempt us!
Sadly, I have no time to write a 15-paragraph post.
Eeeeeek, rigs, I was so flabbergasted by your post re: TH that I didn’t comment. There are not enough :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: and :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Off to work. Am meeting the roofing company owner at noon so that he can inspect what his employees did and I can pay him what I owe…
Happy Tuesday, all!!!
GT
Tuesday - only one more day after this and I have a four day weekend! w00t!
I’m seriously swamped (NOS) here at work though.
Have a good’un!