Suspended coffees

The concept is simple.

When a customer is in a café and paying, they buy a suspended coffee too.

At Idaho, this means paying €2 for a suspended takeout coffee.

What happens next is simple. We write that coffee into our little ledger. And a credit is created.

We run up a credit of suspended coffees in our ledger until the door opens again.

Soon another customer pops in and asks are any suspended coffees available ?

I say sure, what kind of coffee would you like, same as for all our takeout customers.

This customer then pays using the suspended credit left by our generous previous customer.

( I can sense accountants getting excited already !)

This means that someone who NEEDS a hot Darn fine coffee from Idaho, gets one paid for by a previous lovely customer.

There is no patronising, no judging and other customers just see another customer coming in for a takeout.

We are trialing this for takeouts for two reasons……

- all our takeouts are €2 making it more likely that customers will leave a suspended coffee

- At lunchtime we serve lunch only, I do not want to refuse a participant of the scheme, as this idea is about welcoming and involving those suffering from the recession and depression that abounds in Ireland.

This scheme is about all of us looking around and acknowledging that this country is in trouble and that we must all act together to assist those who are falling under the wheels of the juggernaut that is Ireland Inc.

We may experience hiccups in implementing the scheme, but you can be sure of one thing, we will do our best to make sure that your generosity, goes to the people who need it and that they are welcomed with the same warmth as you.

It is unfortunately evident that our Government are focussing on other issues and let’s be honest we don’t need help on this. There are no layers, no organiser, no skimming… Just mutual assistance to people who need it from people who can afford to give.

We are working on a symbol that regular takers of the coffees can see in the window, to know there Is currently coffee available, as we do not need to cause embarrassment of refusing if the credit has all been used.

We will be kickstarting this scheme tomorrow, with a start up of twenty suspended credits ..

Let’s all get behind this…