08/31/2024
1/2 We've been dragging our feet in posting this...but the time has come. Josh and I and our girls are taking a sabbatical from the coffee shop for a few months....there. Phewf. Said it and made it real.
We weren't planning on it. It's not the way we wanted it to go. But, with the options we're facing moving forward, right now we feel like it is the right choice. Maybe it's good timing. We have been burnt out a bit lately...but it never felt like "it's time to stop for a while" until now. It's made us very tired and a little sad. And here's the story:
Our county healthy inspectors rotated and we got a new one. New one went around to us all to meet us and check out our operations.
As he stopped by for this surprise visit(we passed all temperature and holding tests with flying colors, obviously and no surprise) we were told by him Tuesday and again on Thursday at a secondary meeting at my request that they made a mistake with our permitting. You see, they have now informed us that our storage facility is in Albuquerque the city, but our commissary kitchen is in the County of Bernalillo. We initially were told to get licensed through the county when we first opened up because of the location of our commissary kitchen (this is all documented) but our new inspector says the old inspector got it wrong. He says our licensing should be based off where we store our shop...through the city.
Even longer story short, we now have 30 days to fix our licensing...either break our RV storage contract and find one in the county (with available 50ft space) and then re-license our whole business based off that storage address or....we have to drop all of our county licenses and reestablish through the city. But no, the story doesn't end there.
On top of that, our new inspector said that our old inspector shouldn't have approved our blue refrigerator or blue microwave and toaster oven so we have to get rid of that equipment (we spent many dollars on it) and get brand new, much more expensive equipment, rip out our counters to fit the much bigger equipment, and that can all happen after we first fix our licensing. (Read the next post)
