Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Beans & Barley Update
Dear Beans & Barley Shop Customers,
We have been opened for almost a year and a half now and have had some ups and downs throughout our journey and without a doubt enjoyed the whole process of building up a business from scratch, especially if it's a speciality shop selling some unusual products from around the world. We’ve had some difficult times with management & finding the products that are likely to sell etc. and it has proven to be very difficult with such speciality products. As you may already know, a lot of the products that we sell have very short best before dates due to not containing preservatives or other useless ingredients that you would usually get in supermarket food. This has resulted in large amounts of wastage since we’ve opened and coming up to a year and a half we have had to re-consider the whole idea/concept of the business and look closely into our finances.
We are stuck for ideas to find a solution as to what can be done to prevent losses within the business. We have tried increasing sales, as some of you may have realised we’ve added fruit & veg, ice creams, additional range, but it hasn’t helped, we have had to raise our prices to compensate for the wastage, which again hasn’t helped, the only option left for us was to reduce the range to a bare minimum which will result in less customers and in turn less sales which won’t help either. Therefore, we have decided that having a retail premises is not financially viable no matter what we try to do and have had to make a very difficult decision to discontinue the retail side of the business.
We believe that by discontinuing the retail section of the business we will give the cafe more of a chance to progress by focusing solely on the cafe and being more creative with what we do. We will make Beans & Barley a much more mum/baby friendly environment, we will use some of the current retail space to create a play area for the kids, our walls will be used for art exhibitions and we will have comfortable sofas scattered around. We will be opening later than usual (especially on weekends) with nibbles and some great wines & draught beers and we will be running weekly classes such as salsa. During the day we will have workshops that will include some of Paul’s speciality subjects, coffee cupping sessions as well as some kids activities such as drawing classes etc. We apologise in advance if we are causing any body inconvenience with this decision but it's not something we have chosen to do, it's something we have had to do.
We will not be buying in any new stock as we need to clear out what we have in stock, also our scaffold shelving will be up for grabs once they are empty along with some of our equipment.
Again, we apologise for any inconvenience caused but it gives us a chance to be more creative with the large space we have.
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Permalink Reply by Beans & Barley on
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We do but there is no content on there, why did you ask?
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Permalink Reply by Angela on
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Only because I prefer to use a website as. a central source of information about opening times, menus etc rather than Facebook or Twitter which I tend to regard as add-ons.
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We will be working on the website once we have the shop sorted
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Shame to see the shop go, but I love the cafe and I'm excited to see it expand! One request though, please don't forgot those of us who don't have children and enjoy the grown up space, b&b has always been a nice alternative to blend which is more child friendly.
More savoury stuff would defo be a bonus (love love love the halumi and avocado burger!
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Got to say we weren't overly impressed on the two occasions we were in there for breakfast. Seemed like the staff were rushed off their feet and the breakfasts weren't amazing...Saying that, we will poke our heads in and give it another go if the idea is to focus entirely on the cafe.
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Hello mate, im sorry that you've had a bad experience at the cafe. Any feedback is good for us and it will only help us to improve so may I please ask what you had to eat and what day you came in? I will also compensate for the experience with free breakfast the next time you pop in, just ask for Charlie and I will sort it out for you. Thanks and sorry again...
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