Get to know our staff!! (a work in progress)
Name & position: Kristen Bair – Barista
Favorite Wash Perk Drink: Honey Cinnamon Latte
What drew you to Wash Perk: i love the emphasis on community that the shop has and I love all the people that work there. I live in Wash Park and have my whole life so I couldn’t resist.
Favorite book/song/band/movie/tv show: All 7 Harry Potters! My favorite song and band changes about every day… I love Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Buffy the Vampire Slayer- lets go 90’s TV shows!
What do you love to do the most in your life? Its a close race between singing and my friends and family.
What are your plans/interests for your future? I’m currently studying to be some sort of Doctor so I suppose that is my plan!
What is something customers would never guess about you? According to many, i’m younger than I look.. and I’m goofier than you could ever imagine.
Have you been out of the country? Where? Doing what?: I’ve been to Ireland twice. Once on a huge family trip where we floated down a canal for a week and another time with my parents and sister just visiting friends and seeing the sites. It was beautiful!
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Name & Position: Andrea Eder, Busser
Favorite Wash Perk Drink: Vanilla Latte with Vanilla soy milk
What drew you to Wash Perk?: Austin’s mother telling me there were hopes of a job, I’m so glad there were! Now I never want to leave!
Favorite book: Perks of Being a Wall Flower
Favorite Movie: The Incredible Mr Limpet
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Name & position: Coby, Barista
Favorite Wash Perk Drink: I’m a big fan of the pumpkin spice Backti Chai,
and the Pink Elephant.
What drew you to Wash Perk: It called to me and I simply followed my destiny
Favorite Book: One Hundred Years of Solitude; Song: Diamonds on the Souls of Her Shoes – Paul Simon; Music: I’m listening to a lot of Bon Iver and Celso Fonseca, Soul Coughing, Paul Simon, XTC, Jazz, and my friends; TV Shows: The Wire, Arrested Development
What do you love to do the most in your life? Spend time with people who inspire me, design, play music, play in the garden
What are your plans/interests for your future? Figure out what’s next…
What is something customers would never guess about you? I don’t drink coffee!
Have you been out of the country? Where? Doing what? I have been to South Africa to study, Ireland and India to farm, the Middle East to listen, Europe and Brazil to play…and Colorado still remains my favorite place in the world to come home to.
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Name & position: Leah Rich, Barista
Favorite Wash Perk Drink: double shot with sugar and cream
What drew you to Wash Perk: the smell of coffee!
favorite books: vonnegut, alan watts
Favorite Music: rock and roll, folk, bluegrass
What is something customers would never guess about you?: i am learning tight rope walking.
What do you love to do the most in your life? Being outside with nature, living respectfully
Have you been out of the country? Where? Doing what? Yes, i traveled through Hungary, Romania and Greece with friends this past June.
What are your plans for the future: very happy with what i am doing at the moment. eventually want to learn permaculture farming and start a band.
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Name & position: Zoe Leanza, bus-person/register
Favorite Wash Perk Drink:
Plum-chamomile iced tea! I’m still not certain who originally thought to put the two together, but Austin first introduced me, and it’s fantastic.
What drew you to Wash Perk:
I owe thanks to my mom for the discovery. After she suggested our first visit, it became routine to stop for coffee after Saturday work outs at Wash Park Rec Center. (Being a land creature, I would run, and, her amphibian ways persisting, she’d swim.)
Favorite book/song/band/movie/tv show (answer any or all):
My favorite book is either My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult or The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
Currently, my favorite songs are “Kids” by MGMT and “Fireflies” by Owl City, but they change like Colorado forecasts. I’m a big fan of local bands (Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind, & Fire went to East High School, and I find this awesome.) Vampire Weekend, though far from Denver, is also a favorite.
“Little Miss Sunshine” remains the best movie I have ever seen, but “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” is a close second. Grey’s Anatomy is the only TV show worthy of my academic procrastination.
What do you love to do the most in your life?
Aside from reveling in the satisfaction of a coffee cup scrubbed clean, I love writing. It’s best if I’ve spent some time jumping on a trampoline first, for the adrenaline, and if I have a really awesome pen and a composition notebook. And an incredibly comfortable sofa of some sort. Ideally, all of this would take place on the roof of a parking garage, in early September.
What are your plans/interests for your future?
College, some traveling, a moderate amount of happiness. I don’t know if true love is too much of a cliche, but that’d be cool too. I’ve considered going into medicine, and of course, on the weekends, I’ll make time to be a famous author.
What is something customers would never guess about you?
I was born at 9:31 in the morning. 9+3+1=13. Thirteen is the atomic number of aluminum, which boils at 2519 degrees celcius. 2+5+1+9=17. I will be seventeen in August. Creepy? I think so.
Have you been out of the country? Where? Doing what?
I have not yet been out of the country, and I reprimand my parents for this every chance I get. It’s one of my most prominent life goals.
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Name & position: Kelly O’Laughlin, Barista
Favorite Wash Perk Drink: Honey Cinnamon Latte’ with Vanilla Soy Milk, but when I need something really sweet, I like a white chocolate honey Kaladi Lavender Mate’ with Vanilla Soy Milk.
What Drew you to Wash Perk?: My wonderful roommate, Emily, first brought me to this residential oasis, and then told me when they were looking for a new Barista.
Favorite book/song/band/movie/tv show (answer any or all):
Song: this week, my favorite song is “watcha say” by Jason DeRulo. Emily and I want to take a hip hop class and learn to do a really awesome dance to this song.
Book: Anatomy of the Spirit by Carolyn Myss or Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Band: Metric/ Flight of the Conchords/ Mika
Movie: Good Will Hunting
Show: The Office and Six Feet Under
What do you love to do the most in your life? I love to play with my friends, which often involves coming to the Perk and lawn parties.
What are your plans/interests for your future? I am applying to graduate schools in London
What is something customers would never guess about you? I am an actor and a yoga instructor. Sometimes I sing mantras into the drinks.
Have you been out of the country? Where? Doing what? I went to a yoga retreat in Mexico, and in 2001 my mom, my sister, and I cruised through Canada on a 64 day cross country trip.
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Favorite Wash Perk drink: Cafe au lait made with breve
What drew you to Wash Perk: I randomly drove by one day and popped in to see if the Perk was hiring… met Teri and I was hooked from that day on.
Favorite band as of this week: Flyleaf
What do you love to do the most in your life? Even though I love being social, sometimes I love to be alone, especially up in the mountains… having my dog with me is the second
best thing.
What are your plans/interests for your future? Let’s just say that my plans are endless and right now I am focused on the present. I want to be in the moment each and every second.
I have lived in two different countries, Ecuador and the Czech
Republic. In Ecuador I was completing a field research project on
drug trafficking in a prison, and in the Czech Republic I was teaching Business English.
Name & position: Toni, Crazy Blog Lady
Favorite Wash Perk Drink: Vanilla Soy Latte’
What drew you to Wash Perk: Initially, the close proximity to my house. Once I entered the shop the atmosphere and the friendship kept me coming back.
Favorite book/song/band/tv show:
Moby Dick/ Almost Home – Resident Hero/ Resident Hero/The Big Bang Theory
What do you love to do the most in your life? Attend concerts and spend time with friends/family.
What are your plans/interests for your future? I want to, someday, write concert/music reviews professionally and possibly own my own magazine someday.
What is something customers would never guess about you? That I have any connection with the shop. I’m incognito!
Have you been out of the country? Where? Doing what? Sadly, I have never been out of the country. Perhaps someday…
Name: Austin Evans
Position: Buser
Drew Me To Wash Perk: It’s a family owned coffee shop, and it’s not Starbucks!
Favorites: The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Book), Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist (Movie), Skins (Tv Show)
Love Most: My family.
Future: Entrepreneur and Coffee Shop owner.
Customers Never Guess: I’m only 15
Travel: I’ve been to France and Spain just to visit, and I did a lot of fun stuff.
Dani,Andrea,Zoe,Bethany,Toni,Leah,Coby, Teri,Austin,Katie,Kristen,Kelly,Ash
