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oakenguyWell, my first night of being an actual vendor of chocolates is over. (Unless you count mail order. Or doing it in a LARP. Or as barter. Or a present. Look, work with me here: I had a change box and everything!)
Some notes and observations:
1) Performing is better. Ohhh, so jealous of the clowns by the end of the evening.
1a) Vending is *so* where the money is, though.
2) Decaf? Ha! We bought $35 of decaf; about .50 worth was drunk. I'm just glad the YMCA downstairs let me donate the leftover coffee--I would've felt bad dumping it.
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flopart is as cool in person as she is online.
4) My "performers get 1 free" policy worked better than I'd dreamed! I'd meant to do it just as a goodwill thing, and so maybe good word of mouth would spread. Instead, I think about a quarter of my sales were performers coming back for more. Heh.
5) The new butterscotch-caramel flavor, easy success even though I'm not quite happy with it. Drizzling streaks of caramel across the top worked out darn well (if I do say so); it's easily the prettiest truffle. And the butterscotch liqueur kicks arse. But the crunchy caramel bits...just not feeling it. Too tiny. I think I'm going to switch to toffee.
It was a fun show, overall! The performers were all friendly and upbeat, the music was fun, the windows to the concession booth opened eventually (they'd been painted shut), and watching the coffee baristas wrestle a bag of coffee out of one cardboard box-dispenser (assembled incorrectly) and into another one, jumping and burning each other while this clear bag of black fluid gurgled around like a living thing, brought back all sorts of X-Files 'black ooze' memories, which will probably show up in my dreams. With clowns. So yay.
Sleep now.
Some notes and observations:
1) Performing is better. Ohhh, so jealous of the clowns by the end of the evening.
1a) Vending is *so* where the money is, though.
2) Decaf? Ha! We bought $35 of decaf; about .50 worth was drunk. I'm just glad the YMCA downstairs let me donate the leftover coffee--I would've felt bad dumping it.
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flopart is as cool in person as she is online.4) My "performers get 1 free" policy worked better than I'd dreamed! I'd meant to do it just as a goodwill thing, and so maybe good word of mouth would spread. Instead, I think about a quarter of my sales were performers coming back for more. Heh.
5) The new butterscotch-caramel flavor, easy success even though I'm not quite happy with it. Drizzling streaks of caramel across the top worked out darn well (if I do say so); it's easily the prettiest truffle. And the butterscotch liqueur kicks arse. But the crunchy caramel bits...just not feeling it. Too tiny. I think I'm going to switch to toffee.
It was a fun show, overall! The performers were all friendly and upbeat, the music was fun, the windows to the concession booth opened eventually (they'd been painted shut), and watching the coffee baristas wrestle a bag of coffee out of one cardboard box-dispenser (assembled incorrectly) and into another one, jumping and burning each other while this clear bag of black fluid gurgled around like a living thing, brought back all sorts of X-Files 'black ooze' memories, which will probably show up in my dreams. With clowns. So yay.
Sleep now.
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Date: 2005-10-02 02:47 pm (UTC)You're awesome. :)
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Date: 2005-10-02 03:54 pm (UTC)