A Killer Latte: A Cozy Mystery (A Killer Coffee Mystery Series Book Six) by Tonya Kappes

Author:Tonya Kappes [Kappes, Tonya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tonya Kappes
Published: 2019-04-22T16:00:00+00:00

TEN

The afternoon seemed to fly by, especially since I’d made more tea sandwiches and some of the new Easy Peasy Lemon Cookies from scratch. Those would definitely be a hit with the afternoon crowd, which was mostly high school students hanging out before they had practice or the row team before they had practice on Lake Honey Springs.

“Do you think you could help us set up the new coffee shop in the cafeteria?” Becca English, my newest afternoon employee, asked over her shoulder as she tidied up the coffee station. “If you don’t want to, you don’t have to, but I thought you could help mentor us.”

“Tell me about the project.” I never jumped at any sort of proposal, but I sure did find anything to do with coffee and teaching the world about it intriguing. Please, she’d called me a mentor. That felt good.

“We got a small business grant from the state for our finance department. The student council took suggestions from the finance teachers, and we came up with a way to make some extra school spirit money.” She gestured around the coffeehouse. “The students come here and spend their money. Why not put that money toward our school?”

“So you’re saying the students would stop coming here?” I asked.

“No.” Becca shook her head. “We would open it up during lunch hours and on the weekends when we have extracurricular activities. It would be all students who work in there, but we don’t know how to make fancy drinks or come up with ideas.”

“You’ve gotten very good at making those coffees.” I was very proud of how the designs in her lattes had turned out. Granted, it took her a couple of months, but Becca was determined, and she was reliable.

“Thanks, but I can’t work the shop all the time.” She shrugged, pushing back one of the many braids in her hair behind her shoulder. “I’ve got track plus all my studies.”

“When is the opening?” I asked for a time frame.

“It will open next fall. The new school year.” She walked over to the tea station and refilled all the necessary items before it was her time to work behind the counter and time for me to meet with Stephen Lemon. “We have to wait for the grant money to come in and see what all we need. That’s also where we are going to need some advice. We have no idea what cups to buy or even how much it’s going to cost us, so we wanted to start working on those things so when we do get the grant money, we can quickly get everything we need and be open for the first day of school.”

“Like a business plan?” I asked and got a tickle in my stomach.

I remembered when Aunt Maxi had begged me to come to Honey Springs to live with her after my awful divorce. When she talked me into following my dream and opening a coffeehouse, making a business plan then seeing it come to life was actually my favorite part.

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