And so we think we have an actual date now...
Sp we spoke to our contractors this morning, now they're telling us we'll be looking at the December10-Dec13 Weekend as the finishing date for the store's construction! So we should be opening the week after. And with that in mind, it's getting down to crunch time for us to find staff and start the training process! We've had about 289 inquiries, and about 50-something actual interviews! We're going on our third day of meeting with eager, potential applicants. A strong, dependable staff is so essential to our business--without a good staff, how will our store operate and run successfully! Initially, we were holding our interviews at the ING Direct Cafe off of Chestnut. We figured we were there so much we might as well hold the interviews there too- especially since we had no facilities to do so. However, we did not know we had to communicate this with the ING staff, and we ended up getting in trouble with the Supervisor/Manager. Ehh... so we went with "Plan B" for today's Round3-- STARBUCKS! When all else fails, find the nearest Starbucks. =)
Out of our many, many applicants, we're confident that we've found our staff. Hopefully we can get back to everyone by Sunday, we've got a few interviews left-- and then we can start figuring out the training processes and such.
