Good morning... What I can get you for?Well, it's day 3 of positive week and I'm doing a little reminiscing. Just some of the details... the pleasures that today's baristas will never experience. The nuances to being a coffee merchant.
They will never experience the pleasure of:
Using a grease pencil to mark the date on a coffee bin... taking a dry, white towel and wiping the old coffee oils out of the French Roast bin... slicing open the silver bullet and letting the beans fly into the drawer... Running your hands through the beans... absorbing the oils...
Having the dosing spring break on the dosing handle during a rush... fashioning a makeshift return spring using a couple of large rubber bands... The complexities of the dosing mechanism and how to calibrate it.
Vacuuming out the grinders every night... soaking the urns...
How to calibrate the Grindmaster using only a screwdriver, an adjustable wrench and a perc grind sample. Taking a pick and stabbing the LaMarzocco gaskets to pull them out and replace them. The thrill of backflushing using the blind filter. The joys of humidity being just right... air temp just right... tamp pressure just right... and 2 steady streams of thick, brown coffee pouring into the shot glasses... then realizing... I DID IT!! 21 seconds!
Taking the coffee stains off of things using PuroCaf... Getting stainless shiny.
Grinding COD... and DCOD...
How to mark things out on the markout sheet that gets send to Acct. @ SRP... the sheer size of the Monday package sent to Acct. @SRP... X, Y and Z tapes...
The exercise of stacking A la Francaise and Schwartz Bros. boxes for the pastry guy to pick up and recycle. Buying a pain au chocolate for your break... using your discount... to dip in your break coffee...
The virtues of using white towels for some things and blue towels for others... Always grabbing a crisp, clean apron... with pockets... for your shift...
These things they will never know... except to read about them...
There's another poll for you...
We'll see usual for your tomorrow...
Pat Nerr...
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