Why You Can’t Reach Staff on Thursdays

by Leanne Shawler

You might have tried calling on Thursdays and only been able to reach our office angel, Miss Penny, instead of the rest of the staff. There are two reasons for this.

1) Our staff meeting is Thursday morning and it runs from 10 until 11:30ish-12ish.

2) The gals on staff go to Chuao’s right afterward.

Chuao’s Chocolatiers is located in the UTC mall and is the perfect way to end a long staff meeting. Verdery and I started going when she was still the Thursday office angel and it quickly became a tradition because, hey, it’s chocolate and their drinks are amazingly decadently good.

Verdery, Hanna, Revbecca, Leanne

We recruited Hanna soon after she joined the staff, and then Revbecca. (We sometimes bring a drink back for Dave and Nathan.) And even though Hanna has finished working for us as Parish Life Director, we’re still getting together for Chuao’s until she leaves us to go home to Norway.

Because we go so often, we each have loyalty cards and the 10th drink is free! Here’s Revbecca with her first free drink (taken a couple of months ago).

Verdery’s favorites: Melao frappe (60% dark chocolate, milk, salt butter caramel) with a shot of expresso, Caramello (coffee with salt butter caramel) with a shot of chocolateHanna’s favorites: lattes, or Zero frappe (white chocolate, milk, vanilla)Revbecca’s favorite: Winter hot chocolate (58% dark chocolate, spices, tastes liquid gingerbread)Leanne’s favorites: Cambur frappe (60% dark chocolate, milk, banana caramel), or Zero frappe with a shot of salt butter caramel, or Zen frappe (60% dark chocolate, green tea, 2% milk)

So if you call and we’re particularly chirpy Thursday afternoon, it’s because we’ve had our chocolate fix!