“I’m fine with delayed gratification.”He grinned a boyish smile.“Come on. Let me show you. Want to use a laptop or phone?”
“Laptop might be easier. I’m all thumbs at typing on my phone. Let me go get it.”She returned with her laptop and they sat at one of the cafe tables.
“No page for Parker’s General Store, either?”
“Nope.”
“Do you want to be part of the Parker’s General Store page or a separate page?”
She’d love to say separate. To keep the cafe her own thing. The first thing at Parker’s her mother had let her be totally in charge of. But it didn’t make good business sense, did it? The town would see it as an extension of Parker’s General Store.
“I guess with the main store.”At least it would have its own name.
“We could set it up as a separate page and just link the two together.”
“Okay, that sounds good.”The small act of having her own page for Sea Glass Cafe pleased her. Probably more than it should. She just wanted the cafe to be all hers. And prove she could make it a success…
He asked her questions and filled out the fields on the laptop. Before long they had a Parker’s page on TalkTime. Complete with really decent photos of the front of the general store that he took on his way-newer and fancier phone.
“Now, we’re going to do some posts about the expansion. The new cafe. Sea Glass Cafe, right? We’ll set up the cafe’s page.”
“Yes, Sea Glass Cafe. Though most of the town will probably call it Parker’s cafe. I have a sign guy coming to give me a quote for putting the name in the front window.”Maybe with the sign in the window and the name of Sea Glass Cafe on the menus she’d have some chance of convincing the town to call it that.
“Sea Glass Cafe it is. I like that. Let me go get a photo of the front door and window of the cafe.”
He came back in with Emily at his side.“Wow, Mom, Mr. Woods just told me that you’re making a page for Parker’s and one for the cafe. About time. Welcome to this century.”Emily plopped down beside her and swiveled the laptop so she could see the screen.“Let me see them.”
Austin pulled up the photo he’d just taken.
“Can you send that to me?”Emily asked.“I’ll add coming soon to it. We’ll upload it to the page.”
“You know how to do all this?”She eyed her daughter.
“Of course, Mom. Just because you don’t do social media doesn’t mean I don’t.”
“The page has to be kept updated. Post to it often. List sales. Maybe your daily special at the cafe. Things like that,”Austin said as he sat on the other side of her.
“I can do that, Mom. Let me be in charge of it!”An eager look settled in Emily’s eyes.“Please?”
“You sure? You’re already busy with school and other work here at Parker’s.”
“Yes, I’d love to.”
“Then the job is yours.”
“Perfect. I’m going to post this photo to the page now. Do you have an official opening date?”
“Wow, you and Austin. Thinking alike. No, but I’m hoping in a couple of weeks.”
“I need the login info.”
Austin gave it to Emily, and she typed away on her phone.
“There, I’m in. And we should have a grand opening,”Emily said as she kept typing away.
She narrowed her eyes at Emily, then Austin.“Have you two been talking?”
Emily looked up.“What? No, why?”
