What fifty weddings taught us about coffee
The cart’s first year, measured in outlets found, doorways cleared, and drinks poured on time.
Our first event was March 2, 2024. By the end of that first year the cart had poured at more than fifty: weddings mostly, plus markets, private parties, and one brutal, beloved week at Roc Holiday Village. “Since then we’ve just been running downhill,” Kyle likes to say. The good way.
Here’s what all of it actually taught us.
The outlet is never where anyone thinks it is. We arrive about an hour before service because the first twenty minutes are always detective work. The machine needs both plugs of a standard 110V outlet, and it can’t run off an extension cord from the wall, which is exactly the kind of thing you want discovered an hour early, not five minutes before the ceremony ends.
Forty drinks an hour is honest math. That’s what our team pours, steadily, without rushing anyone’s cappuccino. It’s why every package includes a three-hour window, and why past about 120 guests we’ll suggest adding service time instead of promising speed we don’t have. Nobody should miss a toast waiting on a cortado.
Outdoors is gorgeous and still needs a roof. Espresso machines have strong opinions about rain. A tent, a porch, a pavilion: any real cover works, and we’ll happily help you figure out where the cart should live, on a site walk or straight off the floor plan.
Doorways are more generous than they look. The cart was built to roll through any normal-sized doorway. It has yet to meet a venue it couldn’t enter with dignity.
Do fewer things, properly. We don’t pour drip, and we don’t carry decaf just yet. We’d rather run a shorter menu we can stand behind at full speed than a long one we can’t. (The signature drinks come along to events, too.)
The calendar is the real product. Every date starts with Kyle confirming availability. Then a deposit invoice books it, and a second invoice arrives about two weeks out. Summer and fall go by season, not by month.
If you’re planning something, start with the quote builder. It prices your actual event, mileage and all, before you ever have to talk to anyone.
