Our sooper seekret project is now live...
For the last couple months I have alluded to a sooper seekret project that Jen and I have been working on.
Here it is:
Crossroads Grocery
Some good friends of ours rented what was an old storefront with the intention of building a commercial kitchen for their fledgling catering business. Unfortunately, the space could not be brought up to code for that but it was still grandfathered for a Grocery Store. So they opened a Grocery Store. Now that their catering business (and restaurant) is running full-time, they decided to sell the store.
A previous buyer's financing fell through and rather than see this place become another 7-11, we stepped up to the plate.
Still waiting for the beer/wine licenses to go through (another couple weeks or so) but we are managing the place full-time and working there stocking, pricing, etc... Neither of us had ever worked in a grocery store before but we have each had our own businesses and this is just basic retail.
This is on top of the Cider and Mead business (that building gets erected on the 19th of this month!!!).
Sleep is highly over-rated and as I said to another person, our collective insanity is gradually morphing into normalcy so things must be going well...
Posted by DaveH at May 14, 2007 10:48 PM
Very, very cool. I'm impressed. Its probably too far to Mt Baker from the central Oregon coast for a 1 day trip to visit this summer during my regular familial camping trip, and that's too bad. I'd love to come and see your place and buy a beer or two.