What We've Been Doing

I can now say to all those people who told me things were going to get busy soon (and you’ve been saying this for nine months) that things are CRAZY busy now.  We are around a month out from opening and so are making decisions left and right. Here is a roundup.

iPads

Instead of  cash registers we will use ipads. This should allow us flexibility in how many order stations we have open, where the order stations are, and possibly even (during slow times) going out to tables to take orders. At busy times we could possibly open a window that is credit card only. We have to get it up and running to be sure but there seems to be a lot of flexibility to the system.

Staff

We are finishing up interviews and creating our team! So many great neighborhood young people have shown interest.

Buying Stuff

Identifying and filling out account applications with all our vendors.

Waste Oil

I met with Richard Elmquist from Community Homestead who will be collecting our waste oil. He is aiming to convert all of his cars to run on vegetable oil. He will also use the oil to heat the greenhouse in the winter. His farm is a community in which people live and work together so that individuals with developmental and other disabilities can reach their fullest human potential.
 

Uniforms

Over 200 aprons that will be screen printed with our logo for uniforms.

  

Construction

We are making decisions weekly on things like colors, kitchen doors, and where all the electrical sockets go.

Liquor License

All the forms are in! Business Licensing downtown has been great! Our Public hearing for our beer and wine license will be on Monday, June 3 at 1:30. 

You are welcome to email support to License Inspector Mohamed Ismail at: Mohamed.ismail@minneapolismn.gov. 

Be sure to include your address. And refer to Sandcastle. Or show up to City Hall, Room 317 to show your support for our application.  

Here are the details for the public hearing in one place:

Monday, June 3 at 1:30, City Hall, Room 317 

We plan to announce our opening date on Memorial Weekend. We want to be sure that construction will be completed as planned. We had to push the date back once already as the building was sinking and some of the structural integrity was off. We were able to fix this rather easily however the city inspector required an engineer to come out to evaluate it …… submit their appraisal of the integrity …… which then needed to be reviewed ….  and then approved for us to move forward.  Whew! But back on track now!