Here we are at the North Fork Bank annual Client Appreciation Day event in Sayville, NY. Hundreds of bank customers came by on a sunny Friday afternoon to be welcomed and thanked by the bank’s manager and staff. For more information on having a client appreciation event for your company, feel free to get in touch with me at mitch@coffeesandsmoothies.com.

Room with a View

September 11, 2006


After being a Maui Wowi franchisee and area developer for the past four years, I finally moved my office out of my bedroom and into an office nearby. It’s the shortest commute to work I’ve ever had: 2 miles. But the really nice part is the view of the West Sayville boat basin and the Great South Bay.




Was it the cool cup giveaway, the cool smoothies, or the cool blue of the American Express OPEN business card? Whatever it was, New Yorkers turned out in droves to visit the American Express booth at the Third Avenue Street Fair. We blended up over 3,500 smoothies in six hours — a lot, but not a record believe it or not! Thanks to our superb team (Nathan, Antonio, Rosie and Dave) we kept the lines moving with a smile–cajoling the line cutters to not even go there, keeping relative order amidst chaos–all in a day’s work for Maui Wowi! Unfortunately, we didn’t have time to walk across the street for the deep fried Oreos 😦



My Maui Wowi colleagues in southern NJ, Zac and Juanita Odumes, are getting into the campus activities market as we are up here in the NY area. Here are some shots from their recent event at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. If you’re a campus activities director in the southern NJ or Philadelphia area you should definitely get in touch with Zac and Juanita at zodumes@comcast.net. They are awesome operators and will bring a special Aloha spirit to your event.