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Friday, August 27, 1999
Slumping Sales Catalyst
For Coffee Shop Changes
The owner of Caffetrio
changed managers and
coffee in an effort to
improve poor summer sales.
By Ferris Morrison
Staff Writer
Caffetrio, a popular coffee shop locat
ed at 201 E. Franklin St., began the
school year with new management after
a turbulent summer plagued with low
sales and few customers.
Owner Susan Parsons recruited Brian
Paquette from the Culinary Institute of
America in Hyde Park, N.Y. He has
been managing Caffetrio for about a
month.
“The owner was looking to get some
revamping of the business,” Paquette
said. “The business was quite successful
in the past and for what reasons unbe
knownst to anyone the business kind of
slacked.
“So what they’ve done is asked me to
come in and get the menu reinstated, get
the quality issues solved and make sure
that we have good-quality products.”
Former manager Stephanie Piland
left after operating the restaurant
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became too difficult to handle, said Erin
Wunker, a staff member at the cafe.
“A lot of things hadn’t been done
properly before Stephanie got here, and
it was just too much for one person to
do,” Wunker said.
She also said that despite Piland’s
decision to leave the cafe, Piland was a
good manager and her absence was dif
ficult for the staff.
Wunker and Kelly Shindler co-man
aged the store over the summer while
Parsons searched for anew manager.
During that period, the store noticed
a slump in sales and cut back its hours,
Wunker and Paquette said.
“I think that die heat probably had a
lot to do with that and the number of
students that were out of town,”
Paquette said.
“My understanding is that the entire
street fell to a lull in business.
Unfortunately it’s all just part of doing
business on Franklin.”
Caffetrio also closed its doors for a
short time when business fell to a stand
still over the summer.
“We closed for a couple of weeks just
to get the place cleaned up, paint, get
things straightened out,” Paquette said.
“When there’s not enough business to
keep your doors open, it doesn’t make
Throughout his journey, which took
him from South Africa to Malaysia, the
camera’s eye recorded his every move.
“When you woke up, you had the
mike right next to you to put on, and
when you went to bed, you could take
the mike off,” he said.
While the crew that accompanied the
cast filmed their community-service
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within the group. But, Sealy said, no
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Parsons was in California and was
unable to be reached for comment.
Customers will notice a few changes
to the items at the eatery, Paquette said.
He switched the coffee they use to
three rich, full-flavored coffees: Sumatra,
Guatemalan and French Roast and they
planned to bake some of the dessert
items themselves.
“I came in and altered what was
already on the menu by using fresher
ingredients and preparing everything
fresh,” Paquette said.
With its fresher products and fuller
coffee, Paquette said Caffetrio had seen
an improvement in its business.
“Things are a bit different now than
they were six months ago,” Paquette
said. “The business is growing. So hope
fully with time, the business will be
enough to possibly open another unit”
Currently catering for the Ackland
Art Museum, Caffetrio hopes to expand
that facet of its business, Paquette said.
“We had done that in the past”
Paquette said. “It was quite successful,
but it was set aside because it got to be
too much for the manager.”
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sion to the often argument-driven story
lines of “The Real World.”
“We kind of had a focus,” he
explained. “You know, you’re traveling
the world. There’s a lot more than silly
arguments. But there are always little
tiffs that sometimes you don’t see.”
As the cast ventured around the
globe, story writers back in Los Angeles
received the group’s tapes, tiffs and all.
After sifting through miles of videotape,
the writers created a story line out of the
cast members’ adventures.
“All the things you see actually hap
pen, but there are story editors back in
L.A. who cut and chop and put every
thing into a story,” Sealy said. “It’s an
accurate representation (of the cast’s
lives) with the bias of a story writer.”
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Amtrak Assault Leaves 3 Injured
The suspect is being held on
$1 million bond for murder
charges, despite claims that
he acted in self-defense.
Associated Press
OLMSTED FALLS, Ohio - A man
stabbed and wounded two conductors
and a passenger aboard an Amtrak train
outside Cleveland early Thursday,
police said.
A suspect was arrested when a pas
senger, in a crowd leaving the stopped
train, told police, “That’s him. That’s
him.”
The man stabbed one conductor,
then started slashing at people within his
reach, wounding the two other victims,
Olmsted Township police Chief Dennis
McCafferty said.
The three victims were hospitalized,
as was a woman who complained of
chest pains. The suspect was treated for
a cut on one hand.
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because we wanted to walk past Hanes
alley,” Haddad said.
The demonstrators were met with
mixed reactions. Some drivers honked
their horns in support while others
But the writers rarely manipulated
the tape or staged lines, Sealy said.
“Sometimes, they need tight sound
bites, so they give you a line that they
want you to say,” he said. “But usually,
it’s something you said anyway, but you
just said an extended version of it, or
something you thought but you just
never said it.”
Sealy did not need much prompting
from MTV editors, though.
Likewise, he said, any “The Real
World” or “Road Rules” hopefuls
should just be themselves during
Sunday’s auditions.
“Definitely, be straight-up and real.”
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Aaron Hall, 41, was arraigned on
charges of attempted murder and held
on $1 million bond pending a prelimi
nary hearing Tuesday. He didn’t enter a
plea.
As he was led into Berea Municipal
Court, Hall shouted to reporters that he
acted in self-defense when a porter on
the train pulled a gun on him. Police ear
lier had said it did not appear that the
suspect knew the victims.
Patrolman Kim Kort, a crime scene
technician, said it appeared the attack
began in a dining car. It wasn’t immedi
ately clear whether some of the victims
were stabbed in other cars, but police
found heavy blood in two other cars and
blood trails through seven.
An 8-inch knife was found in the sus
pect’s pants.
The Lake Shore Limited, which runs
daily between Chicago and New York,
was approaching Cleveland with 376
passengers and 12 crew members
aboard when the attacks began at about
3:20 a.m.
Jacqueline Williams, 43, of
shouted out of their windows.
Most observers stared at the demon
strators and listened to the chants.
“I think all (the onlookers) were
affected by it,” said William Harcombe,
a sophomore biology major who also
marched. “Even those who were yelling
- they were affected by it.”
After half an hour, the demonstrators
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Haddad said participating in the
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march now would empower people to
come together and feel safe in the
wake of the recent attempted assaults.
“I thought it could be a better way
to start this year off than to start off
with weariness and fear,” she said. The
purpose “is to literally reclaim the
night from all the thieves, muggists and
rapists in the shadows.”
Haddad, a dramatic arts and com
munications major from Durham, said
she had always been interested in
women’s issues. She portrayed a
Bosnian camp rape survivor in last
year’s Lab! Theatre production of the
“Vagina Monologues.” This year, she
participates in the Women’s
Perspectives program in Cobb.
“I’ve been a feminist since the day I
was bom,” she said. “I always played
with boys and I was bored as hell
(when playing) house. I’ve always been
a loudmouth about women’s rights and
equality.”
Haddad’s dedication to women’s
issues impressed students like Kathryn
Kooistra, co-chairwoman of Advocates
for Sexual Assault Prevention.
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Worcester, Mass., who boarded the train
in Toledo with her 12-year-old daughter,
said one of the wounded conductors
burst into her car.
“As soon as he came in, I heard the
worker shout into a walkie-talkie: ‘He’s
got a knife! He stabbed me! He stabbed
me!”’ she said.
A conductor stopped the train in
Olmsted Falls, 14 miles southwest of
Cleveland.
“When officers got on the scene there
was a lot of pandemonium. People were
pouring out of the train,” McCafferty
said.
“The suspect was mixed up with the
crowd, and a witness came forward and
said, ‘That’s him, that’s him.”’
McCafferty said he could not verify
an earlier report that the suspect appar
endy was wounded as passengers wrest
ed the knife from him. He said the man
might have been wounded when he
tried to hide the knife. One stabbing vie
tim, a man in his mid-30s, was in serious
condition and undergoing surgery for
stab wounds to the cheek and jaw.
gathered back in the Pit cheering just as
a few raindrops began to fall.
Haddad said she was pleased with the
outcome of the march. “I’m so happy to
see so many people come out and be
passionate and vibrant.”
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pened) without Emily’s commitment,”
she said. “She’s inspiring to me
because she refused to accept circum
stances as they were.”
Haddad made two banners to carry
around campus, which were placed in
the Pit before the march for students to
sign their names in protest of sexual
violence.
Although she did not know the two
women assaulted, Haddad said she
hoped they would join the marchers as
they walked by both assault sites.
“If they (didn’t), I hope they (knew)
we (were) doing this for them and
every women who’s ever been sexually
assaulted and survived,” she said, paus
ing before slowly speaking again.
“Every woman hasn’t.”
Before the march, Haddad
expressed disbelief over the attention it
had received. Organizations and stu
dents sent out mass e-mails and she
personally posted more than a hun
dred fliers.
“I (heard) people talking about it in
the stairwells and at bus stops,” she
said, grinning widely. “They (didn’t)
know this (was) my baby. And that’s
the way I like it.”
She said big committees and lots of
money were not the only way to get
plans accomplished.
“I’m one person and I’ve put this
together,” she said. “There’s nothing
magical about this. It’s exhausting, but
it’s not impossible.”
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