we are at the two thousand and twelve coffee fest at the washington state convention center is my first time attending this event and we're going to be checking it out a little bit all day long from twelve thirty until five o'clock on one thing they can be certified by the i f c by doing a hands on test where they actually are making coffee for me and i'm evaluating their process their ability to multitask proper drink construction and then they also take a written test and based on passing the two different portions of the test and they then become a certified priest and is there a difference between being a certified first as opposed to being sort of  out my own a coffee shop and so when somebody comes to my shop and i'm on their resume i can then say that i do know that this particular priest knows what they're doing they know proper drinking and i can trust that they would be a great fit for  know that's not always the case if you're not sort of an not necessarily right because there's a lot of people you know this industry has gotten really popular in the last ten years and there's been a lot of people over the years have just been trained improperly and they've been doing it for a long time but maybe not the right way and so it's nice as a coffee shop owner to be confident that the person that you're hiring doesn't know the proper way to make a special and also just as good customer service skills and multi tasking function and such as question priest can be thrown into any coffee shop to make her way and be able to make a customer beverage in a timely fashion while constructing the drink properly as well so although we're not timing the beginning to end process of constructing a beverage we are looking to see that they do know what they're doing they're comfortable doing it in a timely fashion and all while doing it properly it was just for stuff well chances are she is to adjust the grind to get her  time here with the i s c we asked that the shots be pulled one ounce in volume and within an eighteen to twenty four second window and that's how we feel that this coffee tastes the best to spread so and so that's what we demand of our brief is in order to be certified so she's going ahead and doing not the only way to change the to get the coffee to fall within those windows is to adjust the grind of the coffee bean chafes in the crater so that's what she's doing and she's timing and adjusting and trying to get back to five eighteen to twenty four seconds i'm learning more about coffee than i've ever known before well i used to teach the barista class the hands on briefing training class and now they move me here so i c similar to what these students are being tested on only we take you for four hours at the hands on training class and teach you everything that you would need to know granted you wouldn't have the experience to pass the test but you would get everything you needed to know to properly make a special beverages and to run a machine like shot or espresso maker you got it made the ribbons in the cases yeah we've done pretty much every major market in america her and currently after twenty years we decided to permanently locate in new york chicago and seattle but we've done pretty much every major market over the years  and some of these cases that we were looking at what are they we're looking to new products products that have been released within the last eight months and there's all top new product and i don't see it it's gotta be in there and then there's also locals over here too and the locals have to be within a hundred and fifty miles of the show  my boss said hey do you guys know that based on per capita consumption seattle's the coffee cup of the world and i said yeah so he says so i think i think we should do a local celebration of coffee i think people would come and i was marketing director and i'm like no way forget it i mean a dry years bringing us way too thin there's four of us and we're doing the bye to seattle the taste of tacoma at the time we were doing all of the land side activity at sea for id plane races except for the pits we're doing the fourth of july freedom fair festival which even still today is the largest fourth of july festival in the state we're doing a thing called the great northwest microbrewery imitation on any sides we should also four of us should do a coffee show my wife's dad and we were married at the time but i five years later we got married it was her dad it was his idea and so once we did german that this could be  a staff payroll we just went off and created our own company which i never wanted to do but i'm having a great time doing it now ok well i think we're going to head inside and check out some of the vendors i think you for your time you know inside you're going to see everything that you would find on either side of a counter you know scale profits john including the counter pretty much you know if it smells like coffee tastes like coffee goes good with beer is coffee or go people sure where to begin so as i'm walking around one of the things that was brought to my attention was a booth that also had oh things pastry items and you are i'm robin peterson the owner of seattle and what exactly is seattle's favorite seattle favorite is a host sell bakery and distributor and we've been in business since one thousand nine hundred five and we've been serving the coffee industry in the and the cooking and then we distribute the other products like the bagels to bagel practically how much is the scottie marshmallow treat them the like ok and you guys do this throughout to seattle or or beyond or we have a bakery and distribution office in south of seattle called tukwila washington and we ship washington idaho oregon montana wyoming california wherever there's a coffee industry convenience store deli market  guys been doing this now it'll be seventeen years in october we started nine hundred ninety five on october thirty first and hello and how lonely it was our first our first customer was actually a seven eleven store and we put some cookies in a basket in front of the cash register and saw if it was sal and it did and we've been doing it ever since little little local start or just trying to figure out where to go next to learn and when i meet new people in this industry and expose ourselves to a channel that we really want to be a part of we have our get it hard candy comes in for flavor  there are and there are a few others yet we don't really compete directly with them because we are a much higher and company than they are they're on thin geared towards children  you are going across many channels to get in history the natural and specialty industry as well i mean we are we are we're out there and so if people over and more information were retail stores a lot of people are attending now this is only open to people who are interested in the business or trade for much of the general public and over the three day  so as a started looking at some of the new starters i finally came across the booth where these drugs are and the creator and her partner and you guys are aspect the fact that people don't realize when taken almost put in a hot cup of coffee about straws breaking down the liquid and leeching chemical plastic to who knows what depending on the type of strawberry so we're really pushing the health aspect of this and trying to get the word out to people that shop another interesting product and i will talk with a gentleman in just a moment  they need is the brand for our company out of canada vancouver british columbia we like to use the inspiration of the beauty of princeton and british columbia to help us design products for active travel that can be food and drink or in some cases your socks and imo yeah i see that you have some of these little mini kind of things drink cu we call this the dopey oh obviously after a double shot of a splash so a good friend of ours up in vancouver british columbia came to us and said as much as he liked our double wall baccy products they were too large and he wanted something for for such a small quantity it strength so quickly that you normally don't need a leak proof mug like you would or a larger twelve ounce size or for several of the other products which are fourteen and sixteen double wall vacuum we do a lot of benchmarking the heat retention of various products and also there was something about teaching that's right we have the key culture and again what we're trying to do is simply make a slightly better product that allows you to do what you want to do so this key culture has a removable lucy basket which allows you to buy for multiple times one three four to get the best possible  having a simple drink through an opening that would allow you to use it for either tea or coffee again double all back you will have fit well learn more about your product i'm sure you please visit my archive page at seattle community media dot org slash node slash one two three seven four slash list shows and as always thank you for watching adventure t in this second half hour the home show we're going to be taking a look around whether you need a play area like that when we were just seeing cabinets windows so as i was moving around the last place i stopped was actually on solar two or solar two and i have featured this before this is an older model and the young lady here that is helping out you are right i'm debbie and tell us a bit about the older model well the solar collectors on top it balances the light down into your room through diffuser and that'll fit up a room about one hundred twenty square feet right now right for inside a home where you may not have a whole lot of light or some bathrooms wandering rooms or kitchens  and how does that work well it still works the same way it collect solar sunshine down bounces down into light into your room and this is u v a and b inhibitors so that you won't be bleaching out your floors down this one has some information about earthquakes the first and in the seattle area you should become more and more aware of the possibility because some areas of seattle have been hit pretty hard letter may not be mine this time around one of these times it's going to be definitely i'm one of the little giant ladder course there are some regular vendors putting the big boy or big to the now you look at it some of the fun stuff and you got your s believe interviewed them before so there is a lot vendors to check out so one of the places i am stuck here is washington state department of labor and industr speak some of the things that have been said on t v recently and the young lady cannot talk right now because of some of those things that are being said so i want to make sure you understand that who are not even like them and i've actually done some repairs of those people mostly they are the professionals the state wants you to check people out and that's always a good idea to have them checked out and there are several different websites including protect my home dot net which is a new one that they created as well as hiring a contractor ellen even be a third one that i may have down here but i don't know just yet but again just one it doesn't matter whether you know what business there and you just want to make sure you check them out check references see some of their actual work and things like that so i think i think i'm getting that ok so we will continue one and see where else we go  going to grab what could that be well we'll find out and this gentleman here can tell us a little bit and you are a mark mark sutton and what is good to grow good to grow is a new company that is taking advantage of both new and old markets and we're supplying grow tense for indoor applications on the weather in these parts can be really harsh for farmers of any kind so this gives the people you option to control their product and you have two different sizes you're showing here yes you have a four by four sixty square feet and we have an eight by four thirty two square feet units are fully ventilated the heat is ventilated up the lights to preserve the lamp life the carbon activated filtration scrubs the year of so there's a well the way this was set up right now has to four hundred watt bulbs going and then later fan let's call that a thousand watts total are electrician tells us a thousand watts is about eight cents an hour to operate depending on your light cycle  and other factors between a dollar to two dollars a day to run and little pockets things that look like maybe extending arms through or something one of those  those are additional ventilation holes for air flow more for running the flex even through if you're joining several tanton want to keep them on the same ventilation system and then the purple that's the door yeah there are back doors centrally to this so if you can see the front is open right now allowing full access while you're doing yard maintenance but if you had an area of your home where it was easy to pass through the tent to get somewhere else changing there is a new market there's also the old market at the show we've heard from a lot of tomato farmers ministers from a lot of vegetable gardeners survivalists who want to grow their own vegetables complete so we've been really well received by everybody at the show that's all very very interesting and of course the guy who's been kind of hiding off on the side doing whatever he's doing is the actual owner and you are my name is richard mon that there are hundreds of vendors and life anytime you're doing sho shacked and verify and compare you don't know what a specific vendor qualifications are verifying why you can do a lot in person just and you can compare different business that have similar product folks that i've seen before or talk to dr men here and how are you doing this time wonderful we help a lot of people because it was there and we helped a lot of people getting rid of allerg roasting material even a bag you want to check things out a sustained nature of doing business always look around verify and check so as i was turning a corner i came across this young lady again and she's got something different here what do you got this time shelf jeannie shelf jeans are retractable shelves that we c retrofit existing space so we don't do the cabinets we actually do the shelves themselves we build them based on the way the customer is going to use them as well as the distance ok load we can go to forty eight inches wide and forty eight inches deep but no wider or deeper because we guarantee that hundred pounds ok so it's forty eight forty eight that's our measurement that we can handle one hundred pounds of so i have to actually that's the owner right there you want to know what made you decide to create it what made you decide to create it you know it's something that everybody needs to know better access to their stuff i don't know anyone who can use shell cheating in their cabinet something that your wife was complaining about or something that made you decide to do it or you know we were just looking to businesses for one this is a franchise shelter is a friend ok ok so we are first looking for business and ok so this is actually a booth here because it's actually a walk in  and when you walk in they do a little spiel and and this gentleman over here you're the owner and basically what do you tell folks when they come in well we tell them that we can come right into their home and custom fit a beautiful night sky right in any room in your home and you just see a white wall right now but if you turn on that light right there it's basically going to be invisible under normal room lighting during the daytime but you can kind of see some specks there if i move at the right angle here we can kind of see a few more specks but that night when you turn off the lights it's literally like you're stealing melts away and you're out in montana looking up at the big dipper and all the stars and in actuality the stars on the ceiling look like that maybe now number even i was a kid in there but i saw the walls myself and they definitely are all stars and there's even a comet or two that goes by and i don't know if it's the life is it the overhead light that reflects it or is it painted as well little bit that's off use a few stars on the overhead light there too right we actually will anything in the room like a light or a ceiling fan vents or smoke detectors what's the most all the usual place you have to put this so far probably most unusual place we've put it has been drawing my whole life for this company three years and what is it you're working on now this is one of our homes called the yosemite and james you're very candid young lady and good luck with your drive thank you so much will let you get back to work and that will probably end our coverage 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