Still getting closer!

Yay! Here is a photo of our almost finished new ADA compliant front entrance. It looks fantastic and we are SO excited to get in and get started.

Stein, Brion and Galen will get in today and get started on building shelves and securing racks to the walls etc (I need to go check out an event site in Marin, but will be helping as soon as I am done).

So this week is clean up and hopefully the various contractors will get in there and finish their parts of the job so we can clear away the dust and get inspected by the health department some time after next week.

We worked the Martini's on the Plaza event in Martinez last night. It was a really fabulous with many folks dressed circa 1940's (when the martini was created). We served a smaller version of the our meatball sliders, which people really seemed to like. It was fantastic to get out and talk to potential patrons and give out samples of our product.

Also funny story... so a friend of mine was in downtown Martinez a few days ago and went into Legal Grounds (which is the guy who used to be in the space we are now leasing) for a coffee and overheard the guy telling a customer that we "Were never going to make it... she is in way over her head... she is $200,000.00 in debt... my customers are loyal and she isn't going to be able to steal them!" This gave my friends a chuckle of course because I am less than $10,000.00 in debt (to a few friends) and I am hoping with all of the great new places going in downtown that instead of needing to "steal" someone's customers, we will be able to see a whole new crowd of potential diners downtown. But... it still worries me that the business culture down there seems so negative. Jim Blier of Creek Monkey and the crew over at Roxx on Main are all very friendly and supportive, but some of the old guard... well I hope we will eventually win them all over :)