It’s mid-October already with a dark start to the morning. The usual early birds gathered to swap stories of the week and solve the world’s problems in a half hour’s time.
President Robbie Danko called our meeting to order this morning with three one-liners.
Today’s guests were Peter Eaton brought by Tom Ashbaugh who came for a third visit and is submitting his application for membership. In addition, Don Thiets brought his brother Tom Thiets and Todd King, and Dick Lindskoog brought Bill Junco.
Our honorary members in attendance were Russ Bremner, Ron Britz, Mark Simon and Martin Peyer.
We are still in need of more members to sign up for the 2018 Craft Talk schedule. Please contact Craig Blixrud to choose your spot, find out available dates, or if you have any questions at blixrudhomes@gmail.com.
We are considering having headshot photos available for $100 each at a future meeting using a professional photographer. Robbie Danko will be polling members for interest via email in the coming days.
On October 26th, Bullseye Media is planning a happy hour and everyone is invited. Halloween costumes are optional, with more information to come later this month.
Lindskoog Florists has been sold to Bill Junco, and they will remain a member of the Breakfast Club. Congratulations to Dick Lindskoog and John Moorhead¸ and welcome, Bill!
This Week’s Craft Talk
Toshiba Business Solutions-MN provides local sales, service and support to the entire Twin Cities metro area. Our corporate offices are located off I494 in Eagan. We also service greater Minnesota and North Dakota with offices in Rochester, Duluth and Fargo.
Our products include:
- Multi-functional products that copy/print/scan/fax
- Full Color enabled systems
Services include:
- Customer Concierge Program One point of contact for all questions regarding your account. Your Toshiba Concierge will be your one contact to answer any questions regarding your account.
- Automated Meter Reading(AMR)- no more calling in, or faxing in copier meter readings
- Document Management Software-Docuware Software can store and archive documents for easy retrieval
- Encompass– a program to analyze document output costs and requirements
- Print Management Solutions– Recognize and analyze your printing costs and take control of these costs
- Embedded OCR Software– transforms copier to a comprehensive paper management solution
Along with these solutions, our focus continues to be a “Consultative Selling” approach to recommend the best solution for each office environment. Our systems may be networked to allow for Network Printing, Network Scanning and Walk-up and Network Faxing.
Thanks again for all the Breakfast Clubbers who have relied on Toshiba for your office system needs.
Don Thiets then introduced his brother, Tom Thiets and Todd King to speak about Meals from the Heart.
Meals from the Heart provides meals to local food shelfs by partnering with businesses and organizations to pack their unique food and then distributing the food through local food shelfs in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Did you know that one in 10 Minnesotans and one in 9 Wisconsinites have food security issues? Meals from the Heart works to alleviate the problem. They have 3 chef designed flavors (soon to be four) that are packaged in a bag and serves 6 people. They produce and package the food for 18 cents a meal and charge organizations that do the packing 25 cents a meal. To pack a meal all they ask is that you have 8 teams of 20+ people available for a 2 hour fun event.
Some of their partners are Medtronic, 3M, CHS, Andersen Windows, and many more.
You can contact Todd King at tking@mealsfromtheheart.org or 612-723-6879 for more info.
Please Register for next week’s Pot of Gold with Don Thiets to Donald.thiets@tbs.toshiba.com or 651-994-7769.
Our business exchange was exciting today, with the following members being thanked: D.J. Kranz Co., Solomon Strategies Group, Medical Weight Management Center, Knollwood Liquor, Toshiba Business Solutions, Lindskoog Florists, Coldwell Banker Commercial-Griffin, AAA Minneapolis, Ashbaugh Financial, Washburn-McReavy Funeral Chapels, Zip Printing, and House Lift Remodeler.
Table introductions were made at Table #5 by Continental Diamond, who told us what their fourth quarter goals are, and what their plans are for the end of the year.
Today’s Pot of Gold was drawn by Karen Holtmeier of Medical Weight Management Center, and our winner was Robert Sanberg of Windrider!
Karen Holtmeier introduced our Craft Talk speaker, Don Thiets of Toshiba Business Solutions.
Thank you to Toshiba Business Solutions for the extra prizes and beautiful prints!
Next week’s meeting will be held onsite at The Woman’s Club. Our Craft Talk speaker will be Boulay PLLP, and a good guest would be someone who needs accounting or tax services or transition planning. Table Introductions will be made at Table #7 by J.N. Johnson Fire & Safety.