DaSpot

DaSpot is a successful cyber café coffee shop for students that Mrs.Reiser, the Business teacher, started two years ago. The in-school enterprise sells coffee, hot chocolate, tea, Vitamin water, Kool-aid mix-ins, Otis Spunkmeyer muffins, Big Texas cinnamon rolls, and Easy Mac. All of these items are sold at low prices and usually get a good amount of attention.


DaSpot is open during first period, second period, and after school until four o’clock. There are tables left out for students at DaSpot after school and laptops are provided if students want to stay after school and work. If you are sitting at Da Spot and are drinking or eating something after school you are not sent home. Students wonder why DaSpot is not open all day. The reason is because of Federal Regulations. The Federal Regulation is that a food store cannot be open thirty minutes before, after, or during breakfast or lunch. DaSpot Manager Senior Keven Quiñonez said, “The reason behind this is because many students receive free or reduced lunch and DaSpot simply cannot provide the same benefits.”

DaSpot’s prices are very low. Everything is a dollar except for Vitamin water and Easy Mac, which are a dollar and fifty cents. The coffee flavors are French Vanilla, Kona Blend, Hazelnut, French Roast, and French Decaf. You can add indulgences to any coffee. Indulgences cost an extra dollar and they are Milky Way Swirl or Creamy Copping. Da Spot has hot tea either Green or Chai Tea. The Kool-aid mix-ins flavors are Cherry, Grape, Fruit Punch, and Orange. Senior Keven Quiñonez said, “Most people do not even know we have Kool-aid! But it is there for everybody to enjoy and is only a buck.” Each Kool-aid mix-in comes with a bottle of water. The types of muffins offered are Blueberry, Chocolate Chocolate Chip, and Banana Nut. The Easy Mac is cooked for you at DaSpot; there is a three-minute cook time wait.

DaSpot has been doing well and each week it makes around one hundred and fifty dollars after DECA members minus expenses. The money raised by DaSpot is used for many of the DECA activities such as competitions, fundraisers, donations, and many other operating costs. DaSpot is DECA’s primary fundraiser along with RHS Apparel and the DECA business center, which provides posters, banners, and laminations. DaSpot has good food, great prices, amazing drinks, and great service.

-Chris Black