Forum Participants finally meet / Cafe Circus

FreshCoffee2

Yesterday I made the pilgrimmage to the Fine Food Show in Sydney.

There were two highlights to the day.

a) meeting the director of the Italian manufacturing company from which my coffee company imports its machines

b) meeting Forum buddy "Over Extracted".

I actually did a sneaky thing while O.E. was busy with someone else...bought a coffee over the counter, sat quietly, and checked out the quality of his brew.

Nice one O.E., your espresso machine operator is doing a good job...but then you already know that. Look forward to further meetings.

While in town I looked around and was extra amazed at what people will put up with in outdoor cafe settings. They sit in conditions so noisy you cant (thankgod) hear mobile phones ringing, cramped, dirty, and ultra smelly with exhaust fumes. Why?

It was also quite amusing to see eXpresso-cafe-mania overtaking other industries... the same substandard outdoor cafe settings with barriers and umbrellas (where they can be fitted in) in conjunction with car washes, book shops and the like.

What next, Joe's Fruitarama and outdoor cafe, or Henry's Bank and outdoor cafe, or perhaps Hung's laundromat and outdoor cafe.

It's a circus out there.

Fresh Coffee.

over_extracted

Hey fresh coffee it was a real pleassure to meet and to talk about our industry as well and hope that we can do it again some other day.Yes that was a sneak of you to order a coffee while i was busy i actually saw you sitting there and wondered which cafe you belong to..you can always somehow tell if another person is in the coffee business.keep up the good work and see you in the future.OE  ps:yes its very sad to see people drinking coffee in such places