Thursday, December 10, 2009
When Robert Knapp, 2009 graduate, applied for a job at Henry’s on Eighth, 11 E. Eighth St., he wrote a cover letter on the back of a Batman street sign and addressed it to a certain “Henry.” The Henry he tried to reach doesn’t exist (the owner’s name is Dave Boulter), but Knapp was still hired as a barista.
Photo illustration by Patrick de Oliveira
Brewmaster: Henry’s on Eighth employee Robert Knapp says it took him awhile to get good at making coffee drinks.
Knapp underwent training for a week, but says it took about a month for him to start making some decent drinks. He says working as a barista is more mellow than bar tending, but that people are really particular about their coffee.
Knapp mostly works the graveyard shift, which he says is always amusing. “The kind of people who want to drink coffee at midnight are either sociopaths or interesting types,” he says.
Sometimes Knapp has to kick someone out, which he says is the worst part of the job. He lets a lot more slide at 1 a.m. than he would in the afternoon, but his standard usually is that someone bothering another person isn’t OK.
Henry’s may attract some weird characters, but Knapp says there’s a definitive sense of community in the place. He says 75 percent of the customers come in at the same time every day. “I know that Sunday at 9:15, the quiz people from the Bottleneck are going to get three brownies.”
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