The Mahone Bar Repair café earlier this month was a success! Lots of people showed up, to get something repaired or just out of curiosity. In any case, this was a great oppotunity to socialize with neighbours and friends around a cup of coffee.
If you have a Facebook account, you can check out photos taken at the event here.
We also gathered some statistics about what ended up being repaired or not. We compiled them and here they are, on this chart. We’re still working out the best way to capture this type of data: we know that the reporting of a couple of repaired items fell through the cracks. However, these numbers paint a good picture of what the impact of this event was.
Like at the Riverport event back in March, the knife and tool sharpening station was a very popular one! Two people were operating it and they were busy the entire time. These numbers also show that items brought to the small appliance tables were not often fixed: as we noticed during past events, some items are unfortunately beyond repair or they can require a follow-up with a professional party.
We’ll keep capturing this type of statistics, with hope that they’ll highlight adjustments to make for future events.
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