Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Rain delays

Hello there,

Well, the much needed rain has delayed us for a day or two. The good news is the roof didn't cave in. (-:

Yesterday was supposed to be our screw inspection (who knew?) and our mid-health inspection. Neither inspector showed up. Wimps! I drove to Escondido in the pouring rain yesterday.

So my plans to file for me permit and schedule the final health are put off until tomorrow. Our final health hopefully can be scheduled for the 21st instead of the 18th. whish means I'll be able to cook in the kitchen on the 21st.

The floor is being prepped and poured tomorrow through Sunday which means no one in the kitchen until Monday so it can dry. Hopefully, with the wet weather the floor will dry on schedule.
That's all for now.
Talk soon,
julie

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Progress

Hi there,
I can't believe how time is flying by! The walls are almost all up. We've passed plumbing, electrical and building inspection. Wednesday the floor gets poured. I'm using Marble Shooters out of Irvine. It's a poured epoxy like Life Deck.
Monday the walkin and other equipment is delivered & installed. Thursday the 17th final health on the building then Monday the 21st is my final inspection for my license. Good news is my catering license expires Dec 31st anyway, so it's perfect timing.

Tuesday the 22nd all the food comes in and we break the kitchen in with prep and feeding 500 homeless for Christmas.
Then the 28th the reach-ins from my current kitchen will be moved up there and I'm out of the skanky place I've been using and into my sparkling new, clean and secure kitchen.
Without even advertising, I have 3 tenants lined up.
One guys works 6 days 5 pm to 2 am.
Another from 6 to 10 am. The 3rd is Mon, Tues, Wed 10 am til 5 ish. Can't be more perfect.
There's also the one-sey, two-seys that are inquiring just from word of mouth.
Life is good!
We are still under budget & 2 days ahead of schedule.
I LOVE DAN LEVY CONSTRUCTION & John Nichols their superintendant. I highly recommend them.

Pretty soon, I'll have to figure out what else to blog about!
Talk soon,
Julie