A good friend of Avenue Coffee, @Brian_Clemens (a barista at Cartel Coffee in Tempe), just sent us a link to a great article written in the New York Times last week.  It reflects on what a lot of small businesses in the food industry have a problem with, a handful of customers trying to dictate your policies as a business.  In his example, its making pizza, his way or the highway.

Check out the article here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/business/smallbusiness/14sbiz.html

In the end, we do what we think is best for our business, and for ourselves.  That is the beauty of a free market, and a great country.  If you care enough about the product you serve, and treat it with enough respect, you get to decide exactly how you want to serve it and most of your customers will respect you because of it.

“The customer really isn’t always right.”  I say this with all do respect.

Our newest employee Nate is a quick learner, and is suprising us all with some great art. Good job Nate!

So Jenni is having some fun with this, today was all about butterflies! It tasted just as good as it looks, hats off to Caffe Luce for an amazing espresso blend.

As many of you know,my mom is a Barista from the northwest as well. She likes to come out here and help every once in a while to show us up. Here is some of her art from her last visit.

Not to downplay Nate’s apple, but here is a fire breathing dragon from Jenni.

Our newest member of Avenue Coffee is already pouring great art.

Some of Jenni’s art today!

So proud of Micah, she is getting better every day!

We are going to start uploadung photos of art daily from our team here at Avenue Coffee. Below is today’s from Jenni..