it has taken quite a while to get to this stage, but we are nearing the point where we put all the pieces of the puzzle together
soon we will have a full range of lever espresso machines, a comprehensive range of grinders that compliment them nicely, and a selection of fine single estate coffees that i roast
i have now found someone who can provide us with commerically viable air freight rates from Auckland to the rest of New Zealand, and also the rest of the world
in particular we look forward to being able to get our roasts to Australia quickly and for a sensible price
we also have a growing collection of spare parts and bits here in Auckland so we can support the locals at a different level of service to what they have grown accustomed to with other brands – months is the word that i hear quite a lot. we can despatch next day and support Auckland region at any time of the day or night
there is a bit of wrestling with third party printers to make them play nicely on OSX, and Kelsey our IT guy needs to integrate the API of the third party shippers with our ecommerce platform and at the same time roll out the latest version of our web platform
we hope to deploy all these pieces by October with a view to enjoying greater levels of autonomy and the ability to serve larger numbers of customers with less manual intervention in order placement and fulfillment
on weds this week we pushed out the kayaks and went fishing, as always a visit to the outdoors comes highly recommended
have a pleasant weekend and get out there!