How Crest-O-Mint Saved Christmas Morning at the Warehouse

Every business has its own holiday traditions.
Some hang lights.
Some host potlucks.
Some give out bonuses.

At Ocean Coffee & Company, we apparently specialize in accidental Christmas chaos.

It all started early on Christmas Eve morning, when our smallest warehouse team showed up to get ahead before the holiday rush. The plan was simple:
Finish palletizing orders, straighten the shelves, sweep the floor, and get home to wrap presents.

But Christmas had other plans.

The Gingerbread Incident (Yes, It’s Exactly What It Sounds Like)

One of our employees brought in a giant Tupperware full of homemade gingerbread cookies. Cute, right?

Well, it was cute… until the lid didn’t click all the way.

One misplaced elbow.
One wobble on the break table.
One dramatic “oohhhh noooo—”

Slam.
Gingerbread exploded like festive shrapnel.

Crumbs everywhere.
Icing everywhere.
Cinnamon powder in places cinnamon should never be.

It looked like a bakery had sneezed.

And that was just the beginning.

Enter: Hot Chocolate Disaster #2

While trying to rescue the situation, someone kicked over an entire thermos of hot chocolate.

The wall.
The floor.
The table legs.
Everything got splattered in a sticky, sugary, holiday-colored mess.

The break room floor turned into a peppermint swamp.

The crew looked at each other like,
“Okay… we are not clocking out early today.”

Crest-O-Mint Makes Its Christmas Debut

We grabbed a bottle of Crest-O-Mint, partly because it cleans everything and partly because it’s the closest thing we have to candy cane energy in a bottle.

Warm water → bucket.
Mint cleaner → splash.
Holiday panic → activated.

And then something magical happened.

The second that mint scent hit the air, the whole break room shifted from chaos to Christmas-movie montage energy. The floors started looking brighter. The sticky hot chocolate came right up. The gingerbread icing melted away like snow on a warm roof.

The team even started humming Christmas songs while they worked, which never happens at 8:00 AM on Christmas Eve.

Within minutes the whole space looked refreshed — actually cleaner than before the disasters started.

Christmas Victory: Delivered

By the time we finished:

✨ The floors shined.
✨ The air smelled like a winter mint forest.
✨ The break room looked holiday-ready.
✨ Morale went from “bah humbug” to “Merry Christmas, y’all.”

One employee even said,
“Honestly, this smells better than my actual house right now.”

The Moral of the Story

Christmas may bring gingerbread explosions and hot-chocolate catastrophes…
but Crest-O-Mint can turn any holiday mess into a minty-clean victory.

If you’re hosting family, cleaning the shop, or just trying to survive holiday chaos — this little green bottle might be the most underrated Christmas helper since the elves.