Sample Night Details

We have four Sample Nights scheduled. If you’ve contacted us already about an invitation, we’ll be in touch with you today to find out which night(s) you would like to come. If you haven’t signed up yet, leave a comment on the website, letting us know which day you would like to come and you’ll be all set.

Sample Night Schedule

Wednesday, August 26 from 7 PM – 9 PM
Friday, August 28 from 7 PM – 9 PM
Wednesday, September 2 from 7 PM – 9 PM
Thursday, September 3 from 7 PM – 9 PM

What is a Sample Night?

Each night listed about, we will be open from 7PM – 9PM for an invitation only event where you can check out our newly renovated space and enjoy some free samples. All we ask from you is that you fill out a brief survey letting us know what you think of your time at the Green Bean so we can tune things up for our grand opening. On each Sample Night, we will be offering different selections from our menu so you may have to come more then once to really get a feel for what we’re about.

We’re really excited about seeing many of you and showing off the café over the next few weeks, so please don’t be shy to request an invitation (or two).

Great progress today

Great progress today, originally uploaded by tukanuk.

We are so excited about the progress we made today. We removed tons of garbage, lights were hung, floors swept and we started setting up the furniture.

Huge thanks to everyone who came by and helped out today (Sorry I missed you today, Mike).

More to come tomorrow!

It’s better then it looks

It’s better then it looks, originally uploaded by tukanuk.

Only a few days to go and things are still all over the place. This photo was taken this morning. I have a feeling that by the time I make it back to the café this evening things will have come along quite a bit.

Our coffee maker was dropped off this morning and right as I was leaving the plumber showed up to finish off their work on the counter.

In five days we are going to be serving someone coffee.

Yikes.

Our sign is up!

After only two days of waiting, we got our new sign yesterday afternoon! We’d been working all day on the renovations so we might look a little rough, but the sign sure doesn’t. Huge thanks to Dan over at Printhouse (511 Pelissier, 519.551.3825) for doing such a great and speedy job. Dan also made us some “coming soon” signs to put up but I left them on his desk at Printhouse.

Construction on our serving counter mostly wrapped up yesterday and a lot of the tools and garbage were cleaned out. On the whole, the café is much more presentable now (but still needs lots of work).

In the meantime, the Green Bean Café is, “coming soon”. We’ll see you on August 24th! You can check out more photos from our renovations here or join our Facebook Fan Page at http://facebook.com/greenbeancoffee.

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1 Month, 6 Days to go

With less then six full weeks to go, the sight of six foot deep hole in the café  floor  could be a little discouraging. However, the truth is that we are really excited about it, because that hole means permits are in place and construction has officially begun. From here, we anticipate that things will move very quickly. One more day with the plumber, then things will sit for a few days and late next week, the framing for the counter will begin. Besides the construction starting this week, we’ve also finalized our coffee supplier, and made a decision regarding some confusing financial stuff.

The coffee, the construction and the cash were the three big goals we had for this week. On Wednesday morning it looked like we may only get one of the three taken care of, but several phone calls within a thirty minute span, and everything sprang into action.

So everything is going quite well, but did I mention that we open in forty-one days?

Serving Counter – Mockup to Tape Down

If all goes well with a little permit we need to get, we will be beginning construction on our serving counter very shortly. Using Google SketchUp, I made a 3D model of the counter to help us visualize the space we will need and to help us design a smooth and efficient workflow. The model is also necessary to give the talented people who will be building the counter something to go on.

The counter front is a combination of environmentally friendly bamboo panelling and cultured stone. If we were opening a café in the desert on a slightly hazy day, the SketchUp picture would really capture what we are trying to do. Since we’ve instead elected to build our counter inside, we’ve taped it on on the floor to help us get a handle on the size.

Serving Counter – Taped, originally uploaded by tukanuk.

The next step is where the real fun begins. A plumber will come in and run the water and drainage lines, an electrician will get us the power we will need and then the real construction begins! Stay tuned for pictures of the actual construction which will hopefully be coming very soon.

Club Chairs

I’m not sure you have truly seen comedy unless you happened to catch Michelle and I loading seven of our brand new club chairs into the backs of our little Chevy Metro and Cavillier.  Three trips from the furniture store to Green Bean later, we had it taken care of. My big failure here is that I somehow forgot to take a picture of the transportation process. The good news is we think the chairs look even better in the Green Bean then they did in the store. 1 month, 2 weeks, 3 days until opening day!