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Just in time for the summer, a power hose has arrived at Clover.
Ayr drilled holes in the floor of the trucks, which means we can scrub the floors and then use the hose to spray the floors down. The water drains right out. It’s easier and more fun than mopping.
Barth from Barrington Roasters gave me some of these coffee sacks the other day. They’re sort of a waste product in their business. These are the sacks the green beans arrive in.
I was pretty excited about it. The sack is actually the sack our coffee, the stuff we serve you, comes in. And I love this kind of thing, I’m always trying to figure out how to re-use cheap things (e.g., milk-crates) and save money that I can spend on better food for you all.
This sack had me puzzled though, didn’t know what to do with it. Then it came to me, these sacks are the perfect protectors for our new whiteboard signs. These are special signs, some sort of enameled metal. They tell me they will not show “ghosting” as the previous ones did. We’ll see. But they do scratch, and what better than a perfectly sized burlap sack to protect them?
Some of you might not know that we clean the truck every night. Cleaning the truck is a process. It’s one of the first things you learn when you start working here, and it’s actually pretty fun, if you enjoy solitude and blasting Top 40 on the radio (like I do). Everything comes out. Every surface (counters, sandwich stations, oven, fryer) gets scrubbed with a brush and soapy water, dried, and sanitized. Floors are swept and mopped.
Last Friday it was 19 degrees during dinner. Some of you might have seen Brian, Bobby and I keeping warm with Clover hot cider that night. When it came time to clean the truck, I naively dipped my brush in soapy water and started scrubbing. I turned around to grab a wet rag. All the soapy suds on the stainless steel had turned to ice. I tried to clean the windows, but the blue window spray turned to ice on contact.
Then it started to snow.
We figured if we mopped, Clover would become a mobile ice rink. Luckily it was a Friday, and we came on Sunday afternoon to finish.We’ve been working on ways to keep us – and the truck warm as the temperature dips below freezing, like space heaters and long underwear (the kind skiers wear).
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