Misrad Habriyut Needs Dollar Signs!

What was holding up our shipment of syrup? A lack of a $ sign!

Misrad Habriyut didn't release our latest shipment of syrup until today because they wanted to know why one of the invoices from our supplier in the States didn't have a Dollar sign. They wanted assurance that the amounts were really dollars. So on President's day, I reached my contact in the U.S. through Facebook (his office was closed) and he sent a letter assuring them that they only deal in Dollars. Dollars and dead Presidents :)

I'm not sure what this has to do with the Health Department but this latest shipment of Freezee is now on the way to our warehouse.

Chill With a Freezee!!!

Texas was interesting. The factory that makes the Freezee machines is really very clean and well laid out. They have 100,000 square feet of office and assembly space in their building. All with great high ceilings and well marked assembly lines. I took over an hour and a half of video to help create a training video for our repair crew. I was very busy in Texas so I didn't even get to visit the Alamo. However, I drove past it and it is much smaller than I imagined. Read up about it here: www.thealamo.org

Going to visit the syrup factory tomorrow. Still having fun dealing with the Kashrut but I will see for myself what is going on in the factory. It has approval of the Star-K and we really should have an easy time of it but...

While in the U.S. I am picking up various kinds of specialized equipment like Refractometers and Multi-Meters for our service personnel. The machine also requires special kinds of clamps and hoses to deal with the pressure of the CO2. However, those I can get in Israel.

My father asked me to join him at the NY Sports Club where I tried to keep up with him on a half dozen different exercise machines. It was a great experience and I wish I could go there every day to work out. Maybe then I could keep up with my 86 year old father!

Weekend Summary

Last night I got confirmation about my trip. Now I can plan everything for a quick trip to learn all about the insides of the machine. I plan to spend the weekend at my parents and it will be great spending a couple of days with them.

Still looking for a great solution for our Web, Social Network Marketing and Email that we need to do to make Freezee a huge success in Israel. I have spoken with some talented and experienced people but haven't decided with whom to spend our money.

Next week I need to finish with the syrup so that I can order it produced. We need the final OK for Mehadrin certification. We also need all the paperwork to get the Misrad Habriyut to approve the Freezee.

I gave the lawyer all the information to complete our contract with our first 4 locations. Hope to finish that also this coming week.

Cola seems to be winning on the voting for the favorite flavor. My guess is that more adults answered as the kids usually like the colorful flavors. Once our website is up and running, I will publicize this blog and get a lot more votes. Of course, once we have the machines running and selling Freezees, we can get real votes based on trial tasting.