#Rough draft bar and books movie
#Rough draft bar and books series

Maria travels to speak at conferences and consult organizations in Chicago, New York, Hawaii, Vancouver, Sweden, Morocco, Istanbul, and many other locations. Maria Matarelli is an Agile Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and consults large enterprise environments in Agile adoption, working with management teams, executive teams and individual project teams. I had a delightful conversation with Maria, and I hope you enjoy it it. Her message of applying agile methods to your personal life and start up business really resonated with me, so I invited to come here on the PM for the Masses podcast for a little chat. She also orders books and has a loyalty card, which yields a $5 discount on the tenth purchase. For her, it’s a place to hang-out, meet friends, or just keep reading.Īmanda said the keys to its future success are: 1) continuing their welcoming atmosphere, 2) showcasing more local food and drinks, 3) getting people excited for events, 4) maintaining its outdoor seating after the pandemic fades.Welcome to episode 80 of the Project Management for the Masses Podcast!Īs I help organize the upcoming PMI South Western Ontario Symposium, I came across the profile of Maria Matarelli, who will be the closing keynote during this May 15th, 2015 event. and currently a vocal and piano coach, gravitated to Rough Draft pre-pandemic to “browse, drink coffee, and try to find a comfy chair to read in.”Īt the tables, she’d see a bevy of business or creative meetings taking place. So when people want a heftier lunch at Rough Draft, they’ll direct them to Kingston Bread and Bar for a sandwich.īarbara Wild, a retired high school music teacher from nearby Saugerties, N.Y. When a neighbor Aaron Quint installed a small oven in Rough Draft’s back room and started baking bread, it led to their starting a business close by, Kingston Bread and Bar as co-owners. It serves pastries and drinks, which siphons off some business but not a substantial amount, Amanda said.

#Rough draft bar and books movie

And it also holds local brewery showcases, political roundtables, lectures and movie screenings-you name it.Īmanda says their target audience is broad but includes young professionals, who now work from home and can stop by for coffee, parents with their kids, especially on weekends, community and political groups.

#Rough draft bar and books series

Pre-pandemic, it held a series of events including trivia nights, live music, local author showcases, and book clubs. Most people who order books come to pick them up two or three days later. And Amanda said many customers do so to “support Main Street USA” and there’s a backlash about “too many people ordering everything from Amazon.” And it orders books for customers who can pick them up at Rough Draft or it provides local delivery for a small fee. It operates as a full-service bookstore with several thousand titles for sale in the shop. The pandemic “hit hard,” noted Anthony Stomoski. “We shut down briefly, and then reopened bit by bit, starting with home delivery of books, beer and coffee.” By year’s end, business was down 20%, which the couple felt managed to contain the losses.ĭuring the pandemic, to generate revenue, it created an online ordering system, for home delivery of books, coffee beans and beer, to Woodstock, Rosendale, Kingston, and Hurley, about a 20-minute radius.

Indoor seating still isn’t permitted, but they’re aiming to bring it back in April. The pandemic hurt liquor sales, but coffee and book revenue spiked. By the end of 2020, sales stemmed from 40% books and merchandise, 40% coffee and food and 20% alcohol. It serves beer, wine, cider, coffee, and savory pies from Down Under Bakery, a Brooklyn bakery, which guests order for lunch.īefore the pandemic, its revenue broke down to 40% coffee and food, 35% beer and wine, and 25% books and merchandise. It kept its menu simple and straightforward. But when the pandemic struck and closed indoor dining, it pivoted and created two dozen outside seats. And that’s exactly what they built.Īt the outset, it seated 40 guests inside, with two small benches outside for seating. Their original vision was a long bar that seated 10 to a dozen people, where guests could also chat on a comfy couch or do their work, and where they could move tables to hold events.