2020...the year the world shook. Needless to say, your world probably shook too. How could it not with such a momentous event? And though you are undoubtedly aware of the effects of 2020, our hope with this blog series is to share a little of our 2020 story. In the last blog, you can read more about our biggest fundraiser ever accomplished in our toughest year ever. In this blog, I want to pull back the curtain to reveal our team's behind-the-scenes creativity. "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." You know who said that? Albert Einstein. And from what I hear (mind you, I'm just a 'coffee guy'), he was pretty smart. Actually, he was brilliant. Much of his scientific work...
What does the year 2020 mean to you? Last year was very difficult on many and this certainly was not an exception for us as a small business. From watching sales drop by nearly 70%, to determining how to keep our staff safe, 2020 was stressful to say the least. From a business perspective, it could be argued that no event in the history of the world has had such a GLOBAL economic effect as the COVID-19 epidemic. Consider the following startling facts with me. Over 100,000 small businesses closed permanently in 2020. At one point in 2020, nearly 6 million citizens were unemployed. Large corporations were clearly not immune, as giants like JC Penny, Hertz and Ruby Tuesday's filed for...
It was the Summer of 2009 when I met a girl from Statesboro. We were working at the same camp and I could not keep myself from talking to her. "What school do you go to?" I asked lacking any other good convo material. "Georgia Southern." "Where is that?" "Statesboro," she said. "It's where I grew up." "...where?" (I wasn't the best at small talk with a pretty girl) She sighed, "It's near Savannah." 'Ohhh. Ok. Sounds...neat." As I awkwardly stumbled through our first interaction, I found myself becoming interested in Statesboro, simply because I found myself interested in this girl. Little did I know that one day I would marry her, and we would begin our own family in...
You may be surprised to hear that coffee beans aren’t actually beans at all. They are in fact seeds that have been taken from the cherries of a coffee plant. There are two main methods for extracting the coffee seeds/beans, each with their own minor variations. These processes are known as washed and natural.
Spring lasted a day, the gnats are out, and the heat is back. So what better way to celebrate summer than to highlight 3 ways we are helping you beat the heat!