Community Update - October

Hello from the first week of Fall in Houston! The weather has finally “cooled down” to a high of mid 80s, but we’re still applying HEAT to all that we’re doing. 

Highlights: 

• We are halfway through construction! 

• We got a nice shout out in Houston Eater as we geared up for our first collab pop-up with our friends at Burger Bodega, a local favorite joint. Nick will be showcasing a Honey Pecan Shrimp Toast and a Taiwanese Beef Chopped Cheese  

NBD/No Big Deal (things that are not great but we are handling like pros):

• We identified a few exterior issues during construction, i.e. an overgrown vegetation (see pics below) and an exposed water pipe that needs to be relocated

Highlights: 

• Our next pop-up is a ticketed dinner serving rotisserie duck on 11/16 with Craft Pita, another local favorite joint!

• Our recent General Manager job posting garnered us a good slate of candidates that we’ll be interviewing in the upcoming weeks

Shout outs: 

• Brian for helping us to source furniture and flatware

• Brina for doing an OKR (objective key results) workshop with us and helping us to brainstorm concrete 1st-year goals

• Brina, Henry, and Melissa for all the great leads when we found ourselves scrambling for tiles  

• Vincent Quan for sharing his experience of co-directorship to help inform our own reporting structure

From a cute little plant to this monstrosity.