Peet’s Evanston Made My Day

As I was walking to work today in a daze I made my usual right turn on Chicago and Davis to head over to Peet’s coffee. (Just walking in the door at Peet’s and inhaling is usually enough to wake me up – no coffee shop smells so much like great coffee!) I wandered up to the counter and placed my usual order

Me: “large coffee please” (no latte’s or frappe’s for me).

Peet’s: “That’ll be $2.15” (I reach into my pockets – no money, left wallet at home)

Me: “sorry, I don’t have any money – so nevermind”

Peet’s: “doesn’t matter, you need your coffee and you can pay us tomorrow”

Me: “no, no I couldn’t”

Peet’s: “take the coffee, you need it”

Me: “OK, thanks a lot”

I know that free coffee doesn’t cost them much, but this gesture still makes me feel really good. I am a huge Peet’s fan and advocate, but now I will recommend them even more. That’s good word of mouth!

TO’B

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Perfect Walk Score – 100/100

I put in our office location – 1578 Sherman Avenue – and we have a walk score of 100/100!

Guess they don’t take winter into account. Check yours here:

Walk Score

Evanston Walk Score

Hat Tip to Andy Sernovitz

TO’B

New iPhone: Evanston at&t Store Line

Heading to Peets for my morning coffee on my arduous 4 block commute this morning I have to say I was pretty surprised to see such a long line outside the at&t store on Chicago Avenue in Evanston.

The insider hype is at a much lower volume that it was last year at initial launch – but this line is longer than it was last year. Interesting.

TO’B

Bennison’s Rules

The French may well win it back – but our local baker – Jory Downer, owner of Bennison’s was a member of the US team that took home the Gold Medal in the 2005 World Cup of Baking. And his work shows it. Superior pastries and breads – 1 block from our office. Awesome!

Baking World Cup: Can France Rise To the Occasion? – WSJ.com

TO’B

PS: France won.