Sommelier's Roast

My name is Lance Oddbody. I'm the owner-operator of Somalia's Roast. It's a coffee-dominity shop at 3700 Glenwood Avenue just inside the Bell Line. My name is Ashley Oddbody and I am the marketing director and the tea program director and a mother of three boys. So this necklace is actually from Lance, my husband's grandmother, Emma. And recently she moved into a retirement community and all the family got together and went through her jewelry. And it's a really fun time at Christmas to just look at the different pieces and tell stories. And I got this one and I wear it all the time. It's one of my favorites. What we're excited about in our partnership with Raleigh Diamond is that there's a common spirit about what we're doing. In any store in the area here, you can go and find cost You can go into a mall and find a national jewelry chain that has both grown stones as well as natural stones. But there's often a feeling that you become an invoice and you become purchase n And that can also be the same for coffee where you can walk into a grocery store and find several different selections. What makes Raleigh Diamond and Smolay's Roast unique is that we are locations that care about customer service, that each and every person that comes in is not just a member. They're not just yet another sales commission. They are an important part of our family, an important part of what we do, of what we're trying to do in our city, which is bring unique luxury, high quality items to customers right here in the Raleigh Derm area. So the gift basket that's coming from Smolay's Roast includes items from our shop as well as from our wholesale roaster, but that's the roasting company who we are, we're also the owners of that business. There's a nice ergonomically shaped 14 ounce stainless steel t Depending on the time of the year, often there's cookies that we have, just again depending on whether it's late spring, s