Memoirs of a Barista - Part 2
New customer: *Walks in at 2.40pm*
Baristas: (To already present customer) What's the problem? Your time ode is showing no time remaining?
Customer: Yeah. I mean, I had at least 10 minutes on it AND I asked you *points to me* to check if I was logged out.
Me: Yeah, you did. But now it shows no time left. Okay, we should be able to put the time back on it.
Coworker: *Reapplies time*
Customer: Yeah, I only really need to check one thing so I shouldn't need to buy another whole hour.
New Customer: *grinning* AM I GONNA BE ABLE TO ORDER SOON?? I'VE BEEN STANDING HERE FOR 10 MINUTES!
Me: *Checks watch: 2.42pm*
Memoirs of a Barista - Part 1
Me: Frappe (pron. frap)
Customer: Froggy. Lemme have a vanilla froggy with extra whipped cream. Boy dat ting you did make for me the other night neva taste good!
Me: *is puzzled* huh?
Customer: Dat mango and banana something. Wha you call it? Fruity?
Me: ... Smoothie
Customer: Mmmm. Dat Make my stomach feel bad!
Me: *thinking* Guy, you were so excited to order that the second I told you that you could mix two fruits. Nobody forced you to buy that garbage. *sigh* $4.25 sir.
Customer: That's with the extra whip cheese?
Me: *WTF* Uh, the whipped cream? That's included.
On the first day of Kwanzaa, my true live gave to me a Umoja sketch in a receipt.
One of my favorite up and coming graphic designers, Paul Chin, happens to be from right here in the Cayman Islands (by way of Uni in Toronto). He’s been doing a fun little bonus for some of his customers at the local coffee joint by giving away free receipt sketches, and today he did one for me. Yes, that’s me soaring in a flying dunk. Check him out.
One of my professors once told me “illustrators are the rock stars of the design world”. Today this sentiment was affirmed and solidified. I mean, it has to be true otherwise Kim wouldn’t be rocking with your boy.
By the way, you can’t see it very clearly from this shot but the label on the tongue shows that these are Hanukkah variant Dunks (as misspelt in my handwriting lol).
Free Receipt Sketches
So far, this little project of mine is going well! I seem to be giving all of them away (there’s only one left in the cup right now). Today, I started my Christmas themed ones (I’m only doing two main ones since I don’t wanna overkill things, as is customary behaviour this time of year) and gave it away INSTANTLY. In fact, the recipient came in BEFORE it was done and sat down and waited for it!
I did an elf today and tomorrow I’m gonna do a rendition of Santa. Stephanie seemed pretty content.
So that’s how it’s going. If you’re in Cayman, swing by Café del Sol and you might get yourself a free receipt sketch by yours truly!
Free Receipt Sketches: UPDATE
The project seems to be going well. I gave away two today (at once) and even had a disappointed customer who came in prepared with today’s password and everything (“Darjeeling gets me on the ceiling”)! She decided that rather than take one today, she’ll come in tomorrow as my shift starts and swoop in to claim it, immediately.
I even had a customer ask about getting it done on a t-shirt before I came in. My coworker had no idea what to tell her so I hope she comes back tomorrow while I’m on or someone at least takes a number/gives her my contact details.
This is what I like to see in my craft: positive response.
Tomorrow’s password: “First Mate on deck, Captain”
Daily Free Sketch - 14/12/09
Still available. “Darjeeling gets me on the ceiling” after 2pm tomorrow can get you this bad boy or a brand new one.
Free Receipt Sketches at Café del Sol
This is a little project I started on my last day at work, this summer, and now that I’m back home for a month, I’ve decided to make it more fun!
Every day I work, I plan to do a free sketch on some receipt paper and give it away to a random customer. No strings attached. Well, there are a few strings. Every day, I’ll tweet/Facebook status a password for the sketch of the day and the first person to come in, while I’m on shift, and tell me the password gets the sketch. Simple as that.
Now there is some wiggle-room to these rules. I know that a VERY minor portion of my twitter followers actually live in Cayman so in all honesty, ANYONE who comes in and rattles off the password deserves a sketch. And if we’re not too busy, I’ll do one for them. Also, because there will be days like today (when NO ONE claimed it), I may just give it away to ANYONE, should I feel so inclined.
So now you know. Pay attention to my tweets, if you’re not already my friend IRL and therefore on Facebook, and if you enjoy fancy coffees and free scribbley artwork on receipt paper!
