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Moreover, The Good Life, does a range of
other things such as, promoting the use of
eco-friendly cosmetics, food and clothing.
As a way of enhancing the environment,
The Good Life engages in recycling its
waste, composting, using LED, fluorescent
and low energy bulbs for its lighting,
compostable and recyclable cups and
containers, eco-friendly cleaning supplies,
along with teaching and helping others to
do the same.
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on the other areas.”
But, like many business when starting up,
The Good Life too faced some difficulties.
“A major difficulty we found was that
The Good Life - How It All Began!
“We had a vision of what was missing in
our experience as we would seek to find
places to offer foods and an environment
that we would like and would be willing to
support. Following that, we decided to craft
our ideas and seek a place to implement
them.”
To provide an example of how a successful,
sustainable business could be, with an
emphasis on sustainability was the initial
objective of The Good Life. Hence, the
focus on vegan cuisine, Conscious Street
wear e.g. “Brand EVOLVE”, and herbal and
nutritional supplements by Healing Earth
Life Products etc. Since its inception, The
Good Life objectives has somewhat
evolved. Today, Prioritization is key!
“Prioritization, it is a balancing act much
like a juggler where at any one time there
may be a stronger focus on one element of
the operation to the slowing down of other
areas. As such there is more focus on
creating and supporting the food and bar
operations at this time with less emphasis
certain agencies requested things of us that
had never been asked of the other three or
four places that were using the space before
us. Of course there is the additional
challenges securing enough start up
financing to allow us to effectively install
our necessary infrastructure along with
hiring high quality, efficient and effective
staff.”
Though faced with the usual difficulties of
starting up, The Good Life persisted, and
today The Good Life opens from 10:00 am
to 10:00 pm every day. The kitchen is open
from 10:00 am to 9:00 pm and the bar until
you say when! The Good Life also has a
shift system where they try to maintain at
least one person for the bar and two people
for the kitchen along with a floor manager
who might at times have to double up as
one of the kitchen staff or bar tenders.
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