Before the outbreak, our little licensed store usually makes anywhere around $4000-$6000 on almost any given day; roughly $7000 during Happy Hour events (cursed be that name)

Now, on any given day with limited seating and near total dependency on DT to make sales, we are making around $7000-$8000. Just this previous Happy Hour, we made a bit more than $11,000. That’s way more than the Happy Hours we had last holiday season! To put this into perspective, I live in an average sized city (actually it’s kinda small tbh) in the middle of a not so densely populated province.

So on your average week, in the midst of a pandemic involving a new virus that is constantly evolving and adapting and with the entire medical field telling us to follow health and safety protocols, our little Starbucks is making at least $49k.

On top of this, we have: stubborn customers who clump in groups, customers who reach over the counter to grab sleeves and whatnot, customers who insist on sitting at closed off seating areas, and we are constantly out of at least ONE product.

Deadass, I would hop on any other job if it wasn’t for the fact that finding a new job in this city is like playing a game on the hardest difficulty setting.