My Coffee Dream

For quite some time, I have been thinking about quitting the rat race and moving to more idle pastures, doing what I like doing the best – drinking coffee! Well, drinking coffee alone will not get me the mullah, so I am wondering about setting up my own coffee shop. I would like to share this dream with you and may be you can motivate me to actually take that leap!

Here’s what my dream looks like – a quaint little shop in the corner of a nice street. The smell of freshly brewed coffee, comfortable seats, a big library of books that people can choose to read while sipping on the coffee, melodious songs playing the background… This will be a place where you will not want to look at the clock! This is a place where you would want to unwind after a long day at work. This is a place where you know the café staff by their names and they know your favorite orders.

The menu will give you a plethora of choices in coffee but you won’t find flavoured coffee. No Hazelnut or vanilla flavoured coffees will be available in my store. I mean, if you want to get honey flavoured coffee, order for honey! Why do you want to mix it with coffee and spoil the taste of both?

But to make this dream come true, I need the money, the place and a tool that can help me manage my inventory listing, employee records and the works! This is the harsh reality that I wake up with. I need a tool that can be accessed from anywhere, where data is not lost, tool that is inexpensive (I will be spending most of my savings on the rent and inventory). I am hoping that Microsoft Office 365 (http://office.microsoft.com/en-in/) is one such tool. When I read about it, I thought that atleast this end of my dream is taken care of. This version of Office can be installed on more than one PC, so I need to buy only one package for my café and home! It also gives me an option to save documents online which means that I will never lose data and can access my documents from anywhere in the world! I do not need to be in the café all day long… I can store my files online and share them with other users whenever I wish to.

Also, with the new Powerpoint, I will be able to impress some financers and get them to invest in the business. The Presenter View feature in the new Office 365 automatically adapts to your projection set-up and you can also use it on a single monitor. This will really be useful while making presentations to a large group of people and my marketing team can really make use of this feature.

Well, looks like I am ranting about my dream a little too much. It’s a distant dream – a place filled with joy and smelling of good coffee. A place where everything seems easy; to both – customers as well as employees!