Signed the papers today. Signed the papers on my new coffee shop. Now the place is mine. Technically. The front door key will be mine in a couple of weeks or I can get the one that Nick has. I'm looking for a couple of over-stuffed chairs for the front part of the room.
I sure can't get my brain in gear right now. It's late, I'm tired, wanted to take a nap today but my new lip stud came apart and I had to go back to NW 23rd and get it put back together. There was lots of traffic, people and it was not relaxing at all. I'm tired. No brain in gear.
Will write more tomorrow....
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
All about bein' healthy
My plan reviewer and inspector from the County Health Department called yesterday. She had a few questions about the layout of the cafe because the plans I submitted don't match the ones submitted last year by the current owner. But other than a comment about "well, someone's plans are wrong", she didn't say anything more about the plans. She then asked a few questions about the menu. I had written down that I plan on serving sandwiches and soups and she wanted to know what I was going to put on the sandwiches in the way of veggies and how the soup was going to be made. There isn't a food prep sink so I can't actually make soup so I told her that I'd be using pre-washed veggies like lettuce and re-constituting soup but not re-heating it. All soup at the end of the day will be taken home or thrown away.
She said she'd approve my plans as submitted and will be writing her letter to me by the end of the week. I think that what she said anyway. She will do her inspection the week before or on the same day I "open" and after the inspection passes, I go down and pay for the permit. And then I'm for real.
Well, not exactly - gotta get a business license, insurance, telephone, state master business license number, WIFI, and some other things.
Right now, I'm watching TiVo.
She said she'd approve my plans as submitted and will be writing her letter to me by the end of the week. I think that what she said anyway. She will do her inspection the week before or on the same day I "open" and after the inspection passes, I go down and pay for the permit. And then I'm for real.
Well, not exactly - gotta get a business license, insurance, telephone, state master business license number, WIFI, and some other things.
Right now, I'm watching TiVo.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
No Feds
Don't need an EIN from the Feds. I don't have employees and I'm not going to incorporate. When I do either one of those things, or anything else that's on the Fed list, I'll be getting that EIN. For now, one box checked off.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
The process so far
Kelli and I agreed with a hug instead of a handshake - I would buy the coffee shop from her and she would sell it to me.
Then over the next couple of weeks, I would start the process to place the coffee shop in my name - I drew a floor plan and submitted for a plan review with the county health department; I started making a list of all the things I need to do over the next 3 weeks before the coffee shop is mine. All mine.
I am really excited - the prospect of having something by which I can give back to the community that I live in is absolutely awesome-feeling inside. I find myself thinking that I am supposed to be anxious or apprehensive about quitting my job doing something that I've done for most of the past 20+ years but my insides are only excited. I get this jazzed-up feeling in my gut that says "wow! how cool is this!!"
Every day feels like forever. It's been less than a week since I filed my health department packet but it feels like it's been a month. The list of things to do grows long, very long. And seems to be getting longer every hour. I suppose at some point there will be no place to write one more thing down and I will just go forward. In fact, that's already happened.
Nick can "train me" on the equipment, along with the representatives of the equipment and coffee so I'm good to go there. My so-far partial list is:
Think I'll go fill out the state paperwork, since I can do that online.
Then over the next couple of weeks, I would start the process to place the coffee shop in my name - I drew a floor plan and submitted for a plan review with the county health department; I started making a list of all the things I need to do over the next 3 weeks before the coffee shop is mine. All mine.
I am really excited - the prospect of having something by which I can give back to the community that I live in is absolutely awesome-feeling inside. I find myself thinking that I am supposed to be anxious or apprehensive about quitting my job doing something that I've done for most of the past 20+ years but my insides are only excited. I get this jazzed-up feeling in my gut that says "wow! how cool is this!!"
Every day feels like forever. It's been less than a week since I filed my health department packet but it feels like it's been a month. The list of things to do grows long, very long. And seems to be getting longer every hour. I suppose at some point there will be no place to write one more thing down and I will just go forward. In fact, that's already happened.
Nick can "train me" on the equipment, along with the representatives of the equipment and coffee so I'm good to go there. My so-far partial list is:
- contact Comcast about WIFI
- contact T-Mobile about another line
- contact the city for the bike rack
- contact Clark Public Utilities about the electricity
- contact the city regarding the water service
- contact Waste Management for the trash service
- contact the landlord
- file for the state identification number
- file for the federal identification number
- file for a city business license
- open a bank account
- check into getting a credit card machine
- locate a whipped cream maker and cartridges
- make some chocolate syrup for mochas and hot chocolate
- find a small fountain for the front
Think I'll go fill out the state paperwork, since I can do that online.
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