The road to opening a new cafe is fraught with peril. Economic peril, not anything like a threat of getting eaten, as far as we know. The lease, equipment, supplies, framing, drywall, electrical, plumbing, and WHOOO, the HVAC! Like getting the death of a thousand cuts from chainsaws.
The common wisdom is to get a 2nd gen kitchen space that previous got cleared by the Department of Health, but we’ve been looking into the possibility of updating a retail shop, since it’s got a cool look, good location, and doesn’t appear to be haunted.
It’s a slow process, though, since we have to wait for contractors to tell us if it would even be feasible, and they’re busy folks. But we have to go through the process and be patient. When health department requirements meet spaces that aren’t already built out to allow for food service, it creates massive unknowns that can kill baby book cafes before they’ve even hatched.
Hatched meaning opening. I was just going with the killing metaphor, which we probably shouldn’t use anyhow, especially when referring to baby anything. In retrospect, the chainsaws in the first part were a bit much as well.
The point is that logos are challenging to make, and sometimes a minor alignment mistake can persist for months before getting fixed. Anyhow, the official logo has always obviously looked like it does now, so I don’t know why to even bring it up.
To summarize, we’re still looking into spaces, calling contractors, making spreadsheets grow by the day, brewing coffee, reading stories, and munching on snacks. And maybe fixing an occasional logo, who can say…