In this episode of the Network Connections podcast, Joanne Rabbas from Café Lorae here in Geelong delights us with the different slices of flavours they offer while she narrates how this wonderful little Café on Moorabool Street came about to totally replace their major means of livelihood and so much more. Watch the Video Show Highlights Some of the highlights of this episode include:Joanne started in the Food Industry at the age of 14 and she has managed Pâtisseries and did a lot of catering for big catering firms and did weddings and debutantes and managed Strikers Tavern at the bowling lanes in Belmont and worked at Wendy's. She said that Café Lorae is unique because they are different from everyone else - doing home-style cooking in the city - cooking everything fresh on the premise every morning, every day.Café Lorae is proudly supporting Camp Quality in Geelong - where there's around 50 families in Geelong that are registered with Camp Quality that have children struggling with some kind of cancer.They started with only 2 slices when Café Lorae opened but Joanne already had fun sharing her experiences with other business owners when she did her 10 minute talk in BNI opening it with, "You go shopping for shoes and clothes. I go shopping for food."  The slices will form the product line of a new business "Urban Slices" to be launched soon. Referral Round Answers Here are Joanne's answers to the questions in our Referral round. Watch the interview to get the full scoop.Bread and Butter Referrals - We'd love to tap into more of the banks in the area, training places in the CBD and into a few cafes, as well - for wholesaling of slices. Cream Referrals - We'd love to tap into motels, hotels, cafeterias in schools, function areas. Dream Referrals - Function areas, yeah. I'd love to get on top of ... the function center in the Botanical Gardens.  Reach Out You can reach out and thank Joanne at Cafe Lorae's Facebook page, and of course meet her in person at our Thursday meetings at 10 am at the Wool Exchange Entertainment Complex in Geelong. Links  Email: [email protected]: +61 3 5229 7857  Full Transcript Click to Read Jürgen: Hi. My name Jürgen Strauss and I'm from Innovabiz and I'm also a member of the BNI network connections chapter in Geelong and it's my pleasure to have with me on the podcast today, also a member of the chapter, Joanne Rabbas from Café Lorae here in Geelong, so welcome, Joanne.Joanne: Hi. How you going, Jürgen?Jürgen: Yeah, good thanks.Now, I want to make sure that everyone listening to the podcast and viewing us here knows that their welcome to come and visit our chapter at any time. We meet on Thursday's at 10 o'clock to 12 o'clock at the Wool Exchange Complex in Corio Street, in Geelong.And if you come along there you'll meet the wonderful Joanne, as well as all the rest of our members.Joanne: The rest of the team.Jürgen: That's right. Yeah.As I said, Joanne owns Café Lorae which is a wonderful little Café on Moorabool Street in Geelong here.And she's going to tell us all about that today but before we get started on that, Joanne, what did you do before you embarked on running Café Lorae?Joanne: I've always had my foot in the door with hospitality, from a very young age. I started in the food industry at the age of 14.Jürgen: Oh, okay. Very early.Joanne: I'm now 41. Shame.And I have done a lot of different things and managed Pâtisseries and I did a lot of catering for big catering firms and did weddings and debutantes and managed Strikers Tavern at the bowling lanes in Belmont and worked at Wendy's.That was my first. I started while I was at school and I loved it.I tapped into customer service back then at a very young age and I've always wanted to have a café.And we've lived in Geelong for 34 years. We flew up to Central Queensland for 5 years and experienced a lot of new things up there.Our job became redundant in the mining industry and we thought, "You know what?