Having only been to The Better Bean once before, I do not know many details about the coffee shop itself. I went on a Saturday morning in January around 9:30 a.m. with my mom. We sat and had breakfast and coffee (and a vanilla chai, absolutely delicious). Although we only stayed for about half an hour, we were able to observe a income of customers and who they were. The woman behind the counter was alone until 10:00, which may say something about the flow of people that come in at between opening and that time. When we first arrived, two college student and a mother accompanied by her young son (who had a chocolate milk in front of him) were sitting in the shop. While we sat there, only one more group of people came in, who seemed to be a family. What I got from this one experience was that it seems as if it is a low key place for all ages.
What I want to know:
In continuing my research, I have a few things that I would like to know about the shop itself. Is this shop part of a chain, or is it an individually or family owned company? Also, having only having had the chance to observe it once before my research, I find that I want to observe it on all different days of the week, and at different times to see how the business is different. I would like to find out what the hours of the shop are, and talk to the employees about how the flow of business changes throughout the day. The one major thing I would like to compare. I would like to compare The Better Bean to my daily coffee shop back home, The Little Coffee Bean. Living in an area that is not close to many college campuses (closest campus= Dean College= 25 minutes), The Little Coffee Bean was a high school hangout. Everyone came to school in the morning with a LCB coffee in hand, and a breakfast sandwich (the best I've ever had). I would like to observe The Better Bean to find out whether it is more of a college hangout (being in walking distance from BSU) or if it is a high school hangout like The Little Coffee Bean was for me.
I think this would be a really cool location site to observe. I have never been there before so it'd be something interesting that I would sure read. It would be cool to observe some of the places that make up the community of Bridgewater that we live in, since we do go to college here and make up a part of this community.
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