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Night Shift

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Manufacturing is a tough environment.  You rely so heavily on you’re suppliers to get you what you need to produce what the customers want.  If you can’t supply the customers immediately, they aren’t going to want to wait and they will go somewhere else for the business.  Luckily for Dormans, our Customers are pretty loyal and they WILL wait for backorders, which is exactly what many of them have had to do for our top selling blend, 3K.

Our packaging supplier got delayed on delivering almost two months, which dropping our stock down to zero.  Once the packaging material was delivered, there was only one option to catch up on stock: night shift.  Starting early this week, our roaster, grinder and packager have been running almost 24 hours a day.  This will most likely continue for several weeks until we are back on track.  Among many negative factors of the night shift, such as cost, I am missing some of my buddies during the day that had to switch to the night shift for the time being.

Hurry up and get the stocks up guys!

-s

Developing a Taste for Coffee

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I have been a regular coffee drinker for almost seven years.  The year I got my drivers license, I cruised through coffee stands ordering lattes like I had been doing it for years.  I drank lattes all through high school, but when I got to college my budget shifted and I needed a cheaper drink.  I switched to americanos and drip coffees with milk added.  Still, I think I never have devolved a real taste for distinguishing the difference between blends and roasts.  One of the quality specialist at Dormans Coffee has challenged me to develop this taste.  Each day, when they are quality testing, (called cupping) he calls me to come  taste the coffee too.  Today, I tried our Espresso and Suprema blends side-by-side and then the dark vs. medium roast Suprema blend.  He tells me that before I leave he is going to test me with all of the coffees (thirteen blends in all) and have me guess which is which.

Hope I am up for the challenge!

xoxo

-s

Being the New Girl

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I started work here in Kenya on Monday and am already learning so much about the coffee industry.  Like all new jobs, the first week starts the same; meeting, greeting and following.  It’s always overwhelming to meet so many people at once and remember their names.  In the meantime, you get shown around and fed with a firehouse of information which you try you’re hardest to retain as fast as possible.  The facility that I will be working in is incredible and I want to bring in my camera to take pictures soon.

I have already started working on some process flows for the roasting and packaging areas and look forward to what else there is to come for me while here.