Backyard BBQ Catering will be posting up EVERY TUESDAY, in the MOJO courtyard... bustin' out with their Southern Bar-B-Que menu replete with pulled-pork sandwiches, potato salad, pasta salad, cornbread, baked beans, as well as lip-smacking, homemade beef brisket...It’s one thing to say you’d like to make a difference, or you want to BE DIFFERENT… but if you continue to employ obsolete stick-and-carrot business models and serve DEAD COFFEE, how would that be any different than The Leading Brand™ or a typical franchise espresso bar concept? THE DIFFERENCE @ MOJO UNDERGROUND™ is we ROAST our own beans right here in the shop on a weekly cycle to ensure ultimate FREESHNESS. We pull only TRIPLE RISTRETTO shots for all our espresso drinks. We built our own single-cup drip-brew station because AIRPOTS SUCK. We price everything in whole dollar amounts, tax included, and we never grovel for TIPS. Our high-speed wireless internet is TRULY FREE, no strings attached. We are OWNER-OPERATED, every barista has a stake in the company… we believe it takes more than just using compostable cups to make a difference…
Thanks to Rob and Wayne for the great deal on the red leather chairs, and the consigned furnishings, decorations, and artwork. Stop by their store or visit the company website.
If you are a lucky recipient, each single chip is redeemable for a cuppa joe or triple shot espresso and has a retail value of $3. If you’d like to get a fistful of these to give as gifts or to leverage your coffee dollar, we’re selling 8 tokens for $20… do the math. Obviously, we gotta tell ya only one of these tokens can be redeemed at any given time, and multiple tokens can’t be combined to buy a t-shirt or phat sack of beans… but it will count for $3 of the total transaction.
COFFEE's THIRD WAVE"For Italians, coffee is culture. In every neighborhood in every village, town and city of Italy, there are a multitude of local coffee bars. From ornate and opulent to simple and sparse, they function as a chat room for local politics and gossip. On average, Italians make two to three daily espresso runs to their local bar, often inviting a friend or work colleague. They go for a quick pick-me-up, but inevitably spend a few minutes exchanging soccer results with the barista, bar owner or other customers. In Naples a visit to the caffè might end with an act of charity. According to Luciano De Crescenzo, novelist and expert in Neapolitan social customs, it is not uncommon for a contented patron to pay for two cups of espresso when he gets to the cashier—one for himself and one as an offering to humanity, or to the guy lucky enough to be next in line. This extra coffee is commonly referred to as a caffè sospeso, or a dangling espresso." http://www.lacucinaitalianamagazine.com/article/coffee
Getting my usual half-benign, somewhat-flaccid doppio espresso… look, man, using a few Italian words for your menu items doesn’t do anything for ambience, theatre, or the experience… “Oh, but our coffee, it’s triple-certified free-trade bird-friendly mountain-grown super-whiz-bang-organic with a pretty little pink ribbon on top!!” SO, anyways… the knuckle-draggin’ bubble-gummer sporting a faux-hawk and “manning” the cash register whips out his trusted Sharpie™ and asks me my name, poised atop the little paper cup like a strike eagle… Ahh, Seamus O’Hulligan, laddy! WHAT? Seamless O’Culligan! WHAT? Shameless O’ Putzaround! WHAT? After about 12 iterations of the same fabricated Scottish name, after he says WHAT for the last time, I tell the kid, because he was starting to look like he was comin’ down from a sugar buzz and he was gettin’ that thousand-yard stare… I tell him, JUST JOE, man, JUST JOE!!
