No, today wasn’t the big day, I was too busy yesterday to write a blog post! We opened our doors on Tuesday and today we began selling deli items. The delay on the weighed stuff was due to the fact that programming the scales and coordinating them with the POS computer was even harder than it sounds. Last night I finally got one scale to work but the “back-up” scale is not formatting correctly. I think. Even though I transferred the same information to both scales, one understood and one did not. That’s why it’s good to have a back-up.
It took all weekend to stock the shelves and enter each item into the POS system. DJ, the assistant manager, my mom and dad, Hiram, and I were here Saturday, all day Sunday, and Monday afternoon until very late. By Tuesday morning everything was put away and people began wandering in. The store next to us was having a sale so it gave us a lot of exposure and foot traffic. Everyone seemed excited by the store and many had already known we were here. Others asked when we had opened, thinking that they haven’t been in the Talbot Town shopping center lately, and we were proud to answer that we had only been open for a few hours!
I am still waiting on the light for our bread case, the wiring is there but the light hasn’t been installed. It hasn’t stopped us from using it! We have bread! I love this bread cabinet, the shelves allow the crumbs to fall down to the bottom of the cabinet for easy cleaning and the dowels are unvarnished so hot pans or bread can be directly placed on the shelves! When we were designing the store I asked for a dry case to be made, I wanted to model it after the one at Marlow & Sons.
Here is theirs, it’s a little different:
Now please come visit us, we are open for business and we are taking suggestions.
Piazza Italian Market 