It has
been a busy week following Organik and the universe has compressed us into a new spot
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| Industrial Life |
As you know
we didn’t do very well with our sales at the party this last weekend and well,
we wanted to get rid of at least some of the left over stock. Back home we
organised that we could stand in a business park in Stikland to sell some
pancakes and coffee. The plan was to go to the strip first, supply our regulars,
pack up at 12pm and move to the next spot to sell our pancake mix.
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It was alien
to be standing in a business area and it felt very different from what we were
used to. Very busy roads, people driving pretty fast and our view has totally
changed instead of trees we now have buildings and concrete :( Our first
afternoon was great though and we turned over in one afternoon what we would
have turned in one week on the strip. “Excited” is the first word that comes to
my mind when I think of that first day on the new spot.
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Regretfully we had a
hard decision to make after work, leave the strip (that we have come to love)
or continue to split our days in two. Taking into account how hard we fought for permission to
stand on the strip I was a little reluctant to just let it go, but in the
bigger scheme of things it is all about your location and the fact that we can
now trade more than just coffee is appealing to us. We both decided that it
would be in the best interest of Morningbru to relocate. With a mixture of relief,
sadness and excitement we started planning our next day in Stikland Business
park.
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| New Spot |
We open up shop at 7am and end our trading day at 3:30pm, we
also got one of those new NeoTel handsets for business. We have been giving
people our number so that they can pre-order pancakes for their office. The
other day we got a R80 order and a R60 one, so this concept is going to work,
day 6 and we are feeling good about our decision.
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| Enjoying Some Coffee...........AGAIN :) |
The new spot definitely has
it’s perks, for one, my parents own a pub right around the corner called Annies
Ladies bar, drinks after work maybe J
They allow us to use it as a headquarters for Morningbru which means that we
can “bru” our coffee right there in the morning, mix batter, make sandwiches
and have storage space. In fact as I type this I am sitting in the bar while
michelle is selling pancakes and coffee a mere 200 metres away. So I can have
time to do my other work, which revolves purely around the internet and my
laptop. If michelle needs anything she just gives me a call...... eg. Michelle
calls for another pot of coffee or a couple of sandwiches, I then make it and trot
down to her with some needed stock. This setup is great because it allows us to
split up our time to be more productive.
It is our sixth day in the new spot now and it is going
well, we are doing better than we would have on the strip and people are getting
to know us and starting to enjoy our pancakes, banana caramel and cinnamon
sugar for now. Goodbye Strip we now consider you our runway, the gravel that started it all.
Yeah, so that’s what’s been happening here at Morningbru. We
are moving forward and we are amped.
Morningbru.
Shame you almost sound apologetic, about what u r doing.When r u going to d yr own thing and stop rlying on yr parents.rgrds to mchl.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - powerful statement. Perhaps I am lucky to have parents to rely on when things are tuff.
ReplyDeleteYou know having parents that stands by you these days is a rare thing, so GOd bless you guys in your ventures for the future, we love your goodies you sell and never mind what people say, from a proud parent who does the same,
ReplyDeleteThank you for all the Support Guys, we truly appreciate it. :)
ReplyDeleteIt's great to have support from parents. Elders are important in Society...it's a shame that nowadays parents get thrown away or shoved into homes. Good work Nic and Michelle!
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