Gruening Middle School
Kaladi
Bros. Coffee Co. has been a wonderful business partner
with Gruening Middle School for the past 8 years.
They begin our partnership by offering the Colt Café (our
student run business) free coffee beans for our café.
They then continued to help out by offering to sell
and deliver all our syrups, cups and lids at wholesale
cost. This saved the Colt Café valuable time
and money as we need these supplies on a weekly basis.
The original Colt Café program was inspired
by Lori Miller, Business Ed. and SBP teacher at Gruening
to enable students to gain real life work experience.
Approximately 25 students perform all the duties
of ordering supplies, stocking shelves, preparing
espresso drinks and cleaning the café. Kaladi
has also provided barrista training for Colt Café members,
provided us with training videos and materials for
in-class training and offered free scholarships to
Colt Café students
to attend their 2 day training at their downtown store.
Kaladi additional has provided
a tour of their company for Colt Café students.
All Colt Café students look forward to this
trip as they get to see the complete coffee operation
at Kaladi. This field trip is topped off with free
Italian sodas for all the students compliments of Kaladi
Bros.
By having Kaladi Bros. as a school business
partner with Gruening, we have been able to provide
training for our students, excellent barristas for
our customers (the Gruening staff and students), and
excellent coffee products for everyone. Our Colt
Café students have gained valuable job experience
and excellent resources to list on their resumes
for the future.
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Polaris K-12 School
The 2004-2005
school year marks the third year of the Polaris K
12 School Business Partnership with Kaladi Brothers
Coffee Co. The inspiration behind this partnership
has a lot to do with physical location. Polaris K-12
School is located just two blocks from the Kaladi
Brothers main store on Brayton Drive. Mark Lyke (Polaris
teacher) approached Tim Gravel (Kaladi Brothers employee)
with an idea of a partnership between Kaladi Brothers
and Polaris DECA. From that beginning, Kaladi Brothers
was supportive of DECA and that partnership quickly
grew to incorporate the whole school. Perhaps the
greatest characteristic of the partnership is the
continued support and willingness to give on the
part of Kaladi Brothers to the Polaris community.
Polaris is very fortunate for such a supportive partnership.
During the three
years that Kaladi Brothers has been our school business
partner, they have supported DECA and Polaris in the
following ways:
- Provided Polaris DECA with a
coffee machine valued at over $2,000. They are providing
the maintenance and training free to our program.
- Providing supplies for our program at a basic
cost or at their price.
- Provided seminar topics
and discussions for the DECA staff.
- Donating for fund-raising
projects like school carnival, DECA Nationals, principal's
scholarship program and incentive awards.
- Rearranging
their business schedules to provide services to DECA
at both the local and state level, (e.g. interviews,
providing jugs of coffee and supplies, donating requested
supplies and gifts).
- Joined the national DECA
program as a business sponsor to our program.
- Assigned
one staff member to work directly with us to try
and expediently help provide service to us.
They are working
with us to develop a school-to-work project that
will allow students in the Polaris DECA program to
seek employment under a mentorship that would allow
them to continue with the objectives of the DECA
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