For the year 2013 I have big plans: 

For the morning I wished someone to wash the dishes, for the evening I wished an "Organic cook" and a "Good cake baker" for the afternoon.

And what a miracle: Everyone is found!

Andreas will be my washing power and is as flexible as he is working only for an hour at the morning.

Annemarie will be my "good cake baker" and my "Organic cook" for July and August.

Brigitte will be for the same period my serving staff.

Annemarie will have a big job:

She has to create new dishes, as fully satisfying, especially for vegetarian (with proteins from beans, peas or lentils) to find a usable name for the new dishes, to prepare everything in front, and in the end it pretty to bring to the table.

Because I dont need to cook myself, this will give me the opportunity to take care of my shop in the afternoon.

Before and after the high season I need to do the job alone.

Now I am in a good mood for the this season.

A warm welcome to you all !!! 

Anna

10. Oktober 2012

Dear Friends,                                              

very many greetings, huge kisses and a big thank you to you all.

You've given me a wonderful summer 2012. I had to do more than I could really create alone.

I am very thankful to the various publishers of Guide books. I am mention in the German Naxos guidebooks of the publisher Michael Müller and Dumont, I'm in the English Lonely Planet, which also has a German and a French edition, which have the same content then the original, and - who knows how? - I am in a French and an Italian Router too. The latter two have filled my cafe particularly.

These compatriots often eat only a little sweet breakfast. This is served quickly and easily - jams and butter are already portioned in the morning. Larger orders, including omelets, or even yogurt with fruit can do me easily embarrassed.

But I am also very grateful of my distributors this year:

There is:

Enallaktiki for fruits, vegetables and goat products.

Green Bay for dairy, Vivani chocolate and gluten-free products and

Bio Ygeia for all dry goods.

They all worked perfectly reliable. They have called me, if I have forgotten my order, or if something was missing, and have informed me about their vacation in mid-August correctly with last and first day of order.

After Feel Green, the unreliable wholesaler from the past two years, in the spring had to close completely, I had consistently no supply bottlenecks.

And we had this year no ship-strikes, which always immediately cleared up the island of tourists and delivery problems resulted.

I did not dare hire someone because the early season (April, May and June) were run more worse than in the past two years. I don't wanted to risk to ask to someone to give him a job and afterwards I can not pay him.

Mostly I did my job well. I had only friendly, nice and polite guests. Often they were coming one table after the next. I had just served a table, was coming the next couple. So I could do the work as well. In the kitchen, stacked the plates, but mostly I found time to rinse them before I closed 2 o´clock.

At midday, I allowed myself a break, and went with Panagiotis and Romeo, our dog, to the beach or in the cool house.

When I came back at 6 o´clock in the evening to the store, I quickly tried to cook my "Dish of the Day '. Often it was not possible, because customers already were coming in the store or into the café.

This year was the motto: I will do the business in that way I can do it alone, which I can do, I do and what I can not do, I don't do. Now I am tired and exhausted, but happy.

We are all here on Naxos happy that summer has not stopped in September and now still goes on in October. Especially Germans, of which we have seen throughout the year only a few, had come in the fall to take even a bit of sun, after an unpleasant northern European summer. 

Many thanks to you friends !!!!

Anna

In September 2009 I opened my business with organic food in the Naxos Chora. At that time I missed the summer season. My really first season in 2010 was unfortunately not very successful due to not placing my advertising properly. And of course, the new Greek financial crisis was very disabling. The austerity measures of the government was followed by many strikes, after that the tourists chose other holiday destinations. The last thing I will add the bad delivery by my wholesaler.

This year is about to change everything:

• The garden and the Pergola are ready, and also the last sofa. It has become very comfortable in the Cafe!
• Beside the door of the shop is a beautiful new vegetable shelf with his own roof to have more shade.
• My old wholesaler has a beautiful new catalog. And I have found other more reliable suppliers.
• I have changed my advertising strategy:
  • I have a new logo,
  • And a new name for the business:
  • I have improved my marketing.
  • I will do ads in several prints like Paros-Life and the Cinema-magazine.
  • I will bring my nice, new flayers with the beautiful new outfit in the travel agencies and hotels more regularly and distribute.
• I started my own farm since October 2010.
  • There I will grow my own vegetables.
  • I will offer daily fresh vegetables from my own garden.
  • This will make me more independent of the irregular supply of Athens.
  • Even more important I am keeping my own chickens to produce organic eggs.