The first small tour is of Unique Creations. Unique Creations is a gift store and a paint your own pottery store. You can come in to buy gifts, craft items, and paint! The painting is very popular and keeps us quite busy. The owner, Pricilla, started this little store out of her home 8 years ago and now it's booming here in Summertown!
In this shot you're looking at the painting tables. Each table has to have clean paper, a cup of water, a cup of paint brushes, and a full box of the different paints. All of the pottery you see hanging on the wall was done by Pricilla. She claims she's not artistic in any way, but all of that begs to differ.
In this picture you see the bisque. These are all of the different items you can choose to paint. Pricilla always keeps a wide variety of items so that all ages find a unique creation to paint.
This section here is the craft section. You will find ribbon, paint, clay, beads, thread, needles, kits for decoupage, pipe cleaners, stickers, candle making....ect...
This section is part of the gifts section. We sell balloons, games, ornaments, home decor, candles, jewelry, and so much more. Pricilla is very good about always having something new on the shelves.
This here is the lovely decoupage cash counter. I stand here most of the time ringing people up and making drinks (the machine is all button based so I don't get to put my Costa experience to work).
This is the front of the store where more gifts are. The shelves are always full of fun things and I always make sure I don't have any money on me or I'd come home with new things every week!
On to Costa Coffee. Costa Coffee is like Starbucks is to the States. This particular store I work at is an incredibly insanely busy spot because our store is quite large. Sorry for the blurriness of some of the shots. All of them were taken on my phone after we closed up for the night. :)
Okay, this shot is particularly blurry. Sorry! But this is what you see when you walk into our doors. You are met by our "savory" display. Here we keep a wide variety of panini's, cold sandwiches, salads, soft drinks, juice, and yogurts.
In this shot I'm starting to pan around the room. This just gives you the feel of the size of the place, and there's more you can't see!
In the front of the store, we have different seating. We have bar stools, comfy seats, and arm chairs. Kids love the bar stool seating!
The striped chairs are the most popular seating during the day as you get a good view of the busy street outside.
I do a wide variety of tasks while at work. One of them is sweeping up.
(Yes, cheesy photo, I know)
Our uniforms that we are required to wear are black pants, a button down shirt that we are given upon starting, and a long black apron that ties at the waist. I kinda like the apron as it reminds me of the fancy ones worn by waiters in nice restaurants.
This is my typical station. I man the til most days. To my leftt is part of our pastry displays. We have currently, lemon muffins, chocolate muffins, apple muffins, lemon cake, coffee cake, shortbread cookies, granola bars, brownies, crossants, cinnamon twists, raspberry bakes, and tiffins. (Tiffins are like a chocolate bar filled with nuts and fruit) Behind me is our menu. We are currently offering "Happy Hour" where every coffee drink is 1/3 off between 3-5pm.
On occasion I will make some coffee. This is our beautiful coffee machine stocked with cups and ready to go! We offer a wide variety of syrups to go in your drinks as well. Praline, cinnamon, gingerbread, vanilla, hazelnut, caramel, and mint.
A shot of the whole counter....
The til area...
Coffee area...
Now this is looking to the back of the shop. I believe we can seat easily over 60 people in here.
This is the back section of the store. People LOVE sitting back here. Even when we try to close it up as it get closer to closing, people will push aside any barrier to sit here.
Typically to deter people from sitting here when it's close to closing so we can clean, I put napkins on the table saying, "reserved." It's worked great so far!
This here is the small messy office. This is where we find out our shifts, have our breaks, and work out with our boss anything we might need.
We also have a basement where we keep all of our cups, extra chairs, tables and the like. It was freezing down there so I didn't take any pictures. :)
The following shots are a panorama of the kitchen. In this shot you see our fridges where we store our cold milk and sandwiches.
Here is the ice maker and the garbage bins in front of it.
Shelves with our sugar, stir sticks and the like. The aluminum table to the left is where dirty dishes are put until put in the dishwasher.
There is our lovely dishwasher, sink, and the dish racks.
More dish racks to put dirty dishes.
Okay, so there's a funny story revolving around this door. This is the door to the kitchen and on the other side, the green strips you see are mirrors, and as you can guess, kids LOVE looking at themselves in it. The other day, two little girls (oblivious to my presence inside) started making the most hilarious faces into the mirror! I was laughing so hard as they had no idea anyone could see them!
Looking from the back of the store to the front.
Looking to the front again.
And that's Costa for you!
I hope you enjoyed getting a glimpse of where I work and if you have any questions feel free to ask!
1 comments:
Oh my goodness! This has got to be the most interesting, and exciting posts I've ever seen! You did a more-than-wonderful job of capturing what those two adorable places actually looked like. -I felt as if I were there! You have awesome jobs! The coffee place looks extremely nice, and comfy-cozy. Is the price practically the same as down here? It seems to me, that Starbucks has boosted their prices lately. *ug*
I wish with all my heart that I could magically appear there to give you a hug! I miss you Jess. I am thrilled to see your life so blessed.
-Jessica
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