Looks like Dippin’ Dots is expanding in Tulsa.
“Our goal is to do as many outside sales as possible – fundraisers, catering, corporate events … anything fun,” said Ryan Hausher, a franchise industry and corporate American veteran. “I’d like to take the three franchise locations that I have now and develop an attraction in each area where Dippin’ Dots is the go-to company when you want to raise money.”

Watch with shock n awe, as the top Baristas from Green Country’s best cafés compete until one drops from a caffeine overdose. Not really, but you can catch the aromas, tastes and talent as Baristas challenge each other in a coffee contest that is a first for Tulsa and hosted by Café Topéca. Proprietor of
Café Topéca, John Gaberino III (Chip) says, “This will be an interactional event.” “Our (coffee) culture is at the right time for this (type of event)”.

So what is a “Barista”? A “barista” is a person who is a expertise in the making a espresso-based coffee drink. You know how cool those “art forms” on the top of the crème of your latte are and how quick you like your tasty beverage to be in your hands. Now is your chance to see artists at work during a day long competition against the best in Oklahoma right here in your own T-town.

The competition will be taken on by one representative from each participating café. They will get 10 minutes to perfect a espresso, cappuccino, and a personal “signature” drink (in the epitome of the Iron Chef”) for two USBC certified sensorial judges using manual grounding, dosing and tamping of the coffee beans. How serious is this? Besides the 2 sensory judges (one flying in from Nashville),
there will be 1 Technical judge and 1 head judge in the mix. The two sensory judges will judge
timeliness, consistency, cleanliness, quality, taste and presentation. 1st place gets $100, 1/2
day roasting class on a Detrich IR-12 Roaster., 2nd place-$50, 3rd place-$25 and 4th place a
can of Folders.

Participating cafés will be: Jews Coffee & Health, Coffee House on 15th Street, Café Topeca, DoubleShot, Shades of Brown, and Coffee Slingers.

All the details

Where Café Topéca, 115 West 5th Street (south-east side of the historic Mayo Hotel)
When Saturday, December 6th, 2008 at 10:00AM

On Nov. 4th, all Tulsa area Chick-fil-A restaurants are being civic minded and giving all those who come in with an “I Voted” sticker the option to trade it in for a new sticker and a 3 count serving of their new Chick-fil-A Chick-n-Strips.

On Tuesday Jared from Subway stopped in at St. Francis to talk with kids about his story. His aim was to inform them about the dangers of eating too much and to get them to be more active.

Coming up next week (September 7th – 13th) is the Tulsa’s annual “Restaurant Week”. If you’d like to please your pallet with some of the city’s best restaurants now’s the time. You can get great three-course dishes at special prices next week only.

There are a ton of restaurants participating in this year’s event including the Avalon Steakhouse, Bodean’s Seafood, The Chalkboard, The Melting Pot, and many, many more. The best part about it is that each of these participants are donating 10% of the proceeds during this time to the Community Food Bank for Northeastern Oklahoma.

TulsaPeople has all participating restaurants listed with links to their menu options for the event. We’ll list them too just in case you haven’t read the TulsaPeople website.

• Avalon Steakhouse
• BigA
• Bodean’s
• The Brasserie
• Cyprus Grill
• The Chalkboard
• Daily Grill
• Fleming’s
• Garlic Rose
• Jazmo’z
• Keo
• Lava Noshery
• The Local Table
• The Melting Pot
• Oliver’s Twist
• Oscar’s Gastropub
• Palace Cafe
• Polo Grill
• Sochey
• Sonoma
• Thyme