Friday, March 30, 2007

Getting the costings done

Had a very productive meeting at the potential venue again this morning. Two hours with a guy called Steve Newman (who I stupidly called 'Paul' on the phone - very embarrassing but I bet he gets it all the time!).
Steve is a surveyor who specialises in refurbishing and fitting out commercial property.
We spent two hours walking around the building talking about what needs doing. We should get his report back next Tuesday.

I also had a very helpful telephone conversation with a guy called Bruce Houlistan. Bruce has great local knowledge of the Cowley Road area and also ran a bar/pub in the area for 10 years so has specialist knowledge of the bar/cafe business market. Very helpful initial chat and I'm hoping that he and Jim and I will get together for a meeting early next week to use his knowledge to tighten up our business plan.

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