Opening of Bagel Nash

Today was supposed to be the official day for the opening of another Bagel Nash store in The Light (Headrow), Leeds. The store looked quite disorganized and empty a week ago and we all have been working together to put things together and only yesterday it looked more like a food store/restaurant.

On opening, we were supposed to give away free bagels sandwiches to employees of The Light (does not mean employees or tenants at The Light).

However, Rob came in at 8 in the morning and saw everything was still in a mess, thus said that we are not ready to serve. I couldn't agree with more with him. Putting our final touches didn't take long but it was Rob's meticulous and attention to details set our schedule a little back. He wants everything perfect and only then we will begin trading. I'm with him. There's nothing more important to the details that he sees (as an Executive) than to rush to serve customers only to regret at a later time saying things like "We should have done that earlier..." etc. For crying out loud, there weren't even any tables set up yet.

There was something Rob did that I didn't quite understand. Maja and I spent a total of 2-3 hours up on a 10-feet ladder wiping and cleaning display glass windows with him on the ground pin-pointing where smudged stains were for cleaning. At the same time, he did mention about a window cleaner who will be coming in the next morning to clean the same glass (and area) that we were sweating out and risking a fractured bone to clean! Alas! The window cleaner came that morning and it took like like 45 mins to an hour to clean all glass and windows... WITHOUT even using a ladder! He had this long stretchable pole/stick to reach to the top of the window, which is like around 17 feet from the ground!

Today, finally, we did get to completing everything on the to-do-lists and I believe whole-heartedly that we will be opening for business tomorrow. Everything looks perfect now... at least to me! It was a good thing that we did not open for business today. Rob made the right choice! All looks prep-ed up now!

Visit the store if you would and I can tell you which are the results of my doings. Worked and sweated like a pig for it! Look out for me! Welcome to Bagel Nash!