{"id":164,"date":"2006-01-16T09:47:37","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T14:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auroralux.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/16\/serendipity-is-under-new-ownership\/"},"modified":"2006-01-16T09:52:40","modified_gmt":"2006-01-16T14:52:40","slug":"serendipity-is-under-new-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/16\/serendipity-is-under-new-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Serendipity is under new ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I <a href=\"\/blog\/2004\/12\/20\/what-is-the-difference-between-a-cafe-and-a-coffee-shop\/\">complained<\/a> about this place not opening until 10:00 AM on the weekdays, effectively killing any chance of establishing a commuter clientele. <\/p>\n<p>Late last week, thanks to the overly-flashy digital sign for the strip mall on Washington Road, <a href=\"\/jsblog\/\">Scott<\/a>, who thinks my blog should have a category just for coffee, learned they&#8217;re under new ownership. This morning while driving in to work to finish up a presentation and demo for tomorrow&#8217;s business trip, I saw the coffee-loving commuter&#8217;s siren: a neon red &#8220;Open&#8221; sign! <\/p>\n<p>I stopped in, and I have to digress for a minute to tell you that the previous owner once proudly told Andrea she had never even tasted coffee! And she runs a coffee shop? EXCUSE ME? <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the new owner responded to my question, &#8220;Where do you get your espresso beans?&#8221; with an enthusiastic description of how he and his wife, who is also the co-owner, had done weeks of research online to find a good roaster, and had samples delivered to their home before the new year, all in preparation for their 1 January acquisition of Serendipity.<\/p>\n<p>Their espresso roast is a tad lighter than Starbucks, a tad less oily than Abbie&#8217;s Sumatra, but is both darker and more oily than the Italian espresso roast I just bought from <a href=\"http:\/\/thecoffeeguyonline.com\/\">The Coffee Guy<\/a>. There wasn&#8217;t as much crema as I&#8217;d like, but I&#8217;ll definitely give them a few more chances. At least they actually like and drink coffee! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I complained about this place not opening until 10:00 AM on the weekdays, effectively killing any chance of establishing a commuter clientele. Late last week, thanks to the overly-flashy digital sign for the strip mall on Washington &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/16\/serendipity-is-under-new-ownership\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}