CGS students learning business skills with Coffee Bar

<span>Inside Chester Grade School is a unique business that offers teachers a chance at refreshment without leaving their classrooms.</span>

<span>Rosie Tindall's class has created a traveling coffee bar-type establishment in which teachers can place orders for coffee, juice, tea or hot chocolate and have it hand-delivered to them by students.</span>

<span>"It's about teaching us business skills," said CGS student Blaine Sneed. "How many supplies to get for each teacher, what kind of drinks they order. It's really a fun business."</span>

<span>Tindall noted that the class makes its own hot chocolate for its coffee bar, which is offered to the teachers once or twice per month.</span>

<span>Drink prices range from $1 for hot tea to $1.50 for iced vanilla coffee. Teachers fill out a form with their order and place it in Tindall's box the day before.</span>

<span>"The staff has been amazing," Tindall said, while emphasizing that the students' parents have been equally supportive and have also contributed to the business. "They tip the kids, which is amazing, and they offer to make donations. The staff really has been very supportive."</span>

<span>Tindall noted that the students serve between 35 and 55 drinks per session. Proceeds go toward supplies and a reward at the end of the school year.</span>

<span>If money is available, a small charitable donation is also made.</span>

<span>"The kids voted to give some money to Cairo," Tindall said, referring to the Caring for Cairo project. "They also made almond bark for teachers at Christmas."</span>

<span>Tindall and Sneed both noted the long-term benefits of such a project.</span>

<span>"Maybe, one day, all of us will run a business," Sneed said. "We all went in together for this."</span>