Getting Things Done

This week has been rather productive for us and Cafe Evoke Catering. We have been trying to check things off the list we created and get things organized and ready for people to begin booking us. My wife was out yesterday afternoon dropping off our menus and information to party planners, wedding planners, party rental shops, etc. She informs me that many of them set the menus out on their counters and the rest were very excited but could not actually have them out so the menus were put with their catering information. Jenni says there was since of excitement for our services so now we will hope to get some calls from it. We will also follow up with each of them in two weeks to see if they need more information and how it has been going. As for the list I posted on Monday, here is what has been completed: 1. Budgets 2. Website Contract Approval 3. Reports from this weekend 4. Distribute information 5. Discuss current job situation 6. Financial Forecasts/reporting systems We are still working on the financial systems and budgets but for the most part, the ideas are completed. We are now working to get the numbers on spreadsheets and up-to-date. We had a scare in our account as I made some reporting errors yesterday but after some detailing checking, we found the problem. It ended up not being to bad. Tip for others -- make sure that when you enter invoices, you enter them in the correct categories so you don't show expenses as credits. So far, we have 3 gigs next weekend -- two of them cash bars and one a hosted event -- and we are very excited. I would like to see us average 4 or more in the next two weeks. With summer upon us, I think there will be many more parties and events that Cafe Evoke Catering can serve. As it stands now, I will continue to work another job and do the catering as we want to put as much money back into the business as possible and try to break even quicker. So far, each event we have been asked about has been a weekend deal so I think it will be fine until our name really gets out there. I am taking our espresso cart down to the Court House today to be "inspected" by the GCCHD (our health department) so we will actually have license in hand. We were pre approved but the inspector needed to see our set up. We will just have to pull the trailer down there and uncover the cart -- it should not be a huge deal. Other than that, we are trying to get organized and push our services to the community. As Monday is a holiday, I will take some time to organize my office and move some things around so that catering stuff is out and coffee house stuff is to the side. We are still waiting around to see what happens in the Mill District of Bozeman and with the City. We are also monitoring a location that we found several days ago to see if it might be the place for Cafe Evoke. Until then, we are really trying to push Cafe Evoke Catering right now. ..be bold Tagged: Cafe Evoke Catering, coffee, bozeman, montana,espresso