The Green Bean

05/28/2022

08/02/2020

Last chance to send your favorite staff with your thanks for years of great service!

This auction and fundraiser is in direct response to all the many kind inquiries and offe… Adam Dunetz needs your support for Green Bean staff transition aid.

07/31/2020

THE AUCTION:

Please read the following carefully before bidding.

All bidding is now open and will close on Sunday, August 2nd at 6pm. Pictures for each item will be attached to this post. Please leave your bids for each item in the comment section of that item's picture. I will only post one Sweatshirt picture, though I've got 10 of them (4 Small, 2 Medium, 4 Large). Please specify with your sweatshirt bid which Size sweatshirt you are bidding for.

There will be minimum bids for three items:

Sweatshirts ($50/sweatshirt)
The Bathroom cabinet ($350)
The Coffee Station cabinet ($400)

If you would like to bid on an item but you really don't want to bid on it publicly, you can send a private message to the Green Bean, and I will post your bid anonymously on your behalf.

Please don't bid on an item if you won't be able to pick it up in person.
All items must be paid for (via Venmo or PayPal) by Monday, August 3rd at 6pm. If the winning bidder doesn't pay for an item by that time, the item will be offered to the next highest bidder.

Tee shirts are available for order if you are not interested in the auction. We've sold out of what we have on hand, but we are placing another order to meet demand. Just leave a comment on the recent Tee Shirt post on our page. I'll try to link to it in the comments.

Revenue from the auction and tee shirts are helping me (Adam) with closing debt and expenses.

If you are interested in leaving a 'final tip' to the Green Bean staff that has served you so well over the years, I've set up a GoFundMe Page which I'll attach in the comments.

I want to express gratitude again for allowing us into your community and your hearts (and stomachs) for these last 12+ years. This auction / fundraiser is in direct response to the many kind offers of people asking how they can help. But ultimately, we are great. We are going to be great. We are fortunate and grateful for all your generosity over these last few months and especially these last 12+ years.

Good luck with the Auction!!

We look forward to seeing you all down the road!!

xoxo

Adam
The Green Bean

07/30/2020

LET'S GET RID OF SOME OF THESE SHIRTS!

Sizes range from XS to Triple XL.

All shirt purchases are PICK-UP ONLY. (from a house in downtown Northampton)

Shirts are $25 (though you're welcomed to pay whatever you'd like above $25.)

There are 5XS, 10S, 10M, 10L, 10XL, 5XXL, 2###L.

All shirts will be CLAIMED in the order they are requested. You can reply in the comments of this photo with your order, stated simply (for instance, ''1 XL' or 2 M and 1 L') or you can send me a private message at Adam Dunetz. I will reply to all orders privately with pickup and payment information.

All orders must be paid for by Sunday, August 2nd at 6pm. Shirts being held by unpaid orders at that time will be put back into circulation.

Thanks for helping me get this box out of my house. My wife thanks you.

Shirts are made in the USA. 50% organic cotton. They are very comfy. As seen in this photo. (garden and grey old man beard NOT INCLUDED.)

07/28/2020

Just a few days till we go live with the auction.

Hot items:
Sweatshirts
Open/Shut Sign
Coffee Cabinet
Bathroom Cabinet
The Mug Tree!!!

Also Tee-Shirts for sale.

But I figured- what's the hold-up on going live with this portion of the fundraiser? The chance to give your favorite staff one last tip to send them on their merry way..

This link is now live and will be open till Sunday.

This auction and fundraiser is in direct response to all the many kind inquiries and offe… Adam Dunetz needs your support for Green Bean staff transition aid.

07/15/2020

Due to an overwhelming number of kind messages and inquiries we have received of people asking how they can help, I will be holding an Auction / Fundraiser beginning Friday, July 31st.

I'm seeking to raise money to fill two needs: to accept some community support covering some of the Green Bean's closing expenses. And to provide our long-term employees with a little bit of transition capital to help them on their way to their next adventure. If you think you might be interested in participating in this Auction / Fundraiser, please read all the following details.

First, here is the event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/3156273701085517/

The Auction: I have a handful of restaurant artifacts to find homes for. These are the items I will have to auction:

10 Green Bean sweatshirts (4s, 2m, 4l)
The Copper Open/Shut sign
The Green Bathroom Cabinet
The Copper-top Coffee station cabinet
The Mug Tree

The auction for the above items will begin on Friday, July 31st at 4pm. At that time, I will put these items up on the Green Bean page- with a photo of each item- where they will stay till Sunday, August 2nd at 6pm. People can leave bids for each item in the comments of their respective picture. By Sunday at 6pm, all bidding will close and the items will be awarded to their highest bidders. I'll message all auction winners privately, providing a Venmo account to send their winning bid. I'm happy to work with all winning bidders on other forms of payment if Venmo is not available for them. All items must be paid for within 24 hours of the auction's closing. If the winning bidder of an item fails to pay for their item within 24 hours of closing (by Monday, August 3rd at 6pm), then the item will be awarded to the next highest bidder. SHIPPING WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR ANY ITEM. All items will be available for a socially distanced pickup on the porch at my home very near downtown Northampton. If you won't be able to pick it up, please don't bid on it.

Additionally, I've ordered a handful of 'Green Bean: December 5, 2007 to March 14, 2020' shirts (see pic). Because there are not many auction items, I'll make them available to anyone who wants one on a sliding scale so that everyone can take a piece of the Green Bean with them. Stock will be limited and orders will be fulfilled on a first come / first serve basis. More details on these shirts to come.

The Fundraiser:
I will provide a GoFundMe fundraising page concurrently with the auction to give people an opportunity to provide a little transition financing for our many long-term employees. This fundraising page will be available for the same hours as the auction: Friday, July 31st at 4pm to Sunday, July 2nd at 6pm.

I want to be clear that this auction/fundraiser is in direct response to all the many kind inquiries and offers that have been made by people asking how they can help. In the big picture, we are fine. We are fortunate. We are filled with gratitude for all that we have been given by this community over the last 12 and a half years. We know there are many nonprofits in our immediate community and beyond that are in greater need of your generosity than we are. But if you're interested in taking a little piece of the Green Bean with you, or if you are interested in providing a little security for a great crew that has served you so well over the years during these uncertain, transitional times, then... these are the details. Please send messages with any questions. And we'll see you on July 31st!!

Oh yeah, one more thing!! All of your requests for a cookbook and/or making recipes available have been SEEN and HEARD. I'm not making that part of this fundraiser simply because I'm not ready. It turns out that closing a restaurant is a lot of work. If and when I decide to make these recipes available in some form, I'd like to give that process the same love and care I've tried to give to the restaurant all these years. I haven't been able to dive into that just yet. I appreciate your requests, and I hope someday to make some type of cookbook or recipe download available for you.

06/06/2020

The response to the announcement of our closure has been overwhelming. I think it has opened the floodgates for myself and many people on staff.

There are 3 things I'd like to convey. And one of them is an ask:

1. Thank you for all the kind comments, posts, memories, messages... It's meant so much. From our every day regulars to the folks we'd see when you made it a point to stop by whenever you were in town, to the folks who came to the Green Bean on their wedding day, or met their now-spouses at The Green Bean, or broke up at The Green Bean, or had work meetings over a series of weeks, months and years, or made us a part of your weekly or annual traditions, the bands that would come before their shows that night, or the morning after, - this has meant the world to us. And we'll never forget you.

2. I know we all are going through a crazy time right now with this pandemic, and closures and re-openings, and health and economic insecurity.. So much is up in the air. I just want to offer: as the employees that have worked with me for so long head out into the world and move on to new adventures- should they arrive at your door, in search of work or some kind of assistance, it would be a great privilege for me to be able to provide them each with a personal recommendation. Please feel free to reach out so that I can go on and on about how wonderful they are. And please allow me to speak at length about their individual strengths and brilliance, and how you could do no better than to bring that particular Green Bean alum onto your team.

3. This one is the ask. And it's not easy. But several people have reached out and asked how they can help. The Green Bean will be closing with significant debt. This has come to be our cycle the last couple/few years. The winters are slow. Cashflow dips significantly in the wrong direction. Then usually, spring would come- graduations, mother's day, Pride, arts festivals...- and the rest of our busy season through the summer would help us dig out of that debt. It has been the new normal for the last few years. And this year, having to close abruptly towards the end of the winter and not having a busy spring to bounce back has left me personally on the hook for a lot of money to cover all my debts- to vendors, landlord, utilities, insurance, other fixed costs.. This is where it gets hard. It's hard to ask for anything from a community that has supported us so generously over the years. But I'll just be out with it...

I'm considering holding an auction to help drive down some of this debt. Even if I can cover just a small portion of it, that would make a huge difference.

The things I have to offer for auction:

I've got about 10 new Green Bean staff sweatshirts. I think there is a mix of Smalls, Mediums and Larges. My wife would LOVE me to clear this box out of the house.

I'm thinking the COFFEE MUG TREE might make a fun auction item?

Perhaps we could find another artifact or two from the restaurant..

Lastly, a couple of people in our closure post had suggested a cookbook. I guess I could offer to auction off a few specific recipes of Green Bean classics?

This is the idea I'm having. An auction. Does anyone think this would be a good idea? Again, I'm mostly putting this out there to the people who have asked how they can help. Cause this is help I'd be so grateful to accept. Operating the Green Bean has been an amazing experience for these 12+ years. I've met the best people. I've had the best breakfast nearly every day of my life. And there are endless things my family will always be grateful for from this special time. If I could pay down even a little bit of this debt that I will be taking with me.. I couldn't find the words to describe how meaningful a gift that would be to me and my family.

I don't know how to run an auction. In person, let alone a socially-distanced online auction. I'd seek help on the mechanics of how to run one, and how to advertise it so that everyone who might want to participate in it knows about it. Any thoughts about this- here or privately- I'd be so thankful to hear from you. Send me a friend request (Adam Dunetz). Shoot me a message... Thank you!!

Wishing you all the best. Cause you are all the best!!

Adam

03/13/2020

As of now...

01/18/2020

Lidia rockin some New Swag!!

12/31/2019

WINTER HOURS