A Coffee C.E.O.’s Pandemic Diary: ‘We Want to Still Provide an Escape’

9 a.m. My wife, Alexandra (Zand), and we get a kids dressed and take a double hiker for a brief travel to Bluestone Lane Santa Monica. Despite a pleasing weather, we see fewer than 10 people, all of that are progressing suitable amicable distance.

10 a.m. When we get home, we take Arabella for a discerning bike ride. We float past one internal station on a curbside berating anyone who enters a park — and afterwards he berates maybe a wrong person. An rumpus between a dual scarcely erupts, though it’s staid by a police.

3 p.m. I expostulate to Fairfax, where we have a storage trickery for events equipment. An worker and we elbow-bump, keep a protected stretch and ensue to bucket a mini espresso appurtenance and millstone into my car. While during home, we devise on improving my barista skills, as I’m a improved coffee consumer than maker. On a expostulate home, we pronounce with both my relatives in Australia. They’re endangered about my gratification and a highlight of a business.

9 p.m. After cooking and checking email, Zand and we locate an part of “Tiger King” on Netflix. Holy smokes.

7.15 a.m. I do some email and afterwards concentration on interpreting all of a latest CARES Act legislation, quite a new Paycheck Protection Program. we ask a handling warn about this and for an refurbish on a communications with landlords. We requested a lease decrease in April. Some of a landlords are really partnership-orientated; others only seem a small shortsighted, lacking empathy.

7:30 a.m. I dial in to a Milken Institute-hosted call to hear from experts on financial repercussions from Covid-19. The European commentators seemed noticeably some-more desperate than a U.S. commentators on a tellurian economy and a time it will take to lapse to a pre-Covid world.

10 a.m. we pronounce with all my approach reports one-on-one, for 30 mins each, to go over their priorities. For New York, we confirm to put in place some despotic measures, including a automobile use stipend for a sell group and a anathema on mixed store visits.