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The Cafe business for the professional operator - keeping up to date with what's new and interesting - written by Paul Cottrell, Turpin Smale Catering Consultants

Wednesday 6 September 2017

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How to explain away, with humour, that your coffee machine is not working

Labels: Breckland Orchard, broken coffee machine, coffee machine, coffee machine not working, humour, Turpin Smale Catering Consultants

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