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Accident Phone

29 July, 2010 in Truck by lucia | No comments

Not to make all my posts about my bad qualities (like my inability to find plantains) but here’s another. I’m becoming a bit accident prone.

Last week I was biking down a very quiet Inman street. I hit a small
pothole, crashed into a parked car, and did some damage to my shoulder. I’m not supposed to lift anything with my left hand, which is why you haven’t seen much of me on board the truck (lots of lifting up there).

Today I was taking orders and slipped in the rain. The iPod hit the ground, and now the screen looks like this. I’m sorry, guys.

It still works, but it’s not pretty. I know one of our customers works at the Apple store. This post is for you. I’ll personally buy you a week of sandwiches if you can give me a fix.

Spraying down the truck

24 June, 2010 in Cleaning, Truck by lucia | No comments

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.

Cambro evolution

22 June, 2010 in Operations, Truck, Uncategorized by lucia | No comments

Systems are improving back at the kitchen. These pickled onions and cabbage are inside “third pan” Cambros (clear kitchen-grade containers).

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Waiting on net

20 June, 2010 in Truck, Uncategorized by lucia | 2 comments

Can you see the message on the screen of our credit-card machine? I’m sure some of you have had the pleasure. It says “waiting on net” and then the word “fatal.” Not a good message.

For the past week at MIT, we didn’t have a credit card machine. When the machine returned Thursday, it made one transaction and died. Friday we got it fixed, and maybe twenty of you were able to pay with cards. Then, while one of you was paying for lunch around 2:30, it reverted to its favorite message: “waiting on net,” and died.

These machines work on pager networks, and the networks around MIT aren’t very good. Back at the kitchen, the machine connected to the network just fine.

Poor awning

9 June, 2010 in Operations, Truck by ayr | 4 comments

These poor awnings. They’ve been scraped on trees, whipped by the wind, and now crushed by colliding with a light pole. Uhg.

Rolando and Enzo were trying to move the Dewey truck and WHACK! down came a lightpost and crush went the awning. Uhg. Sorry lightpost. Sorry awning.

10 foot plastic

28 April, 2010 in Design, Truck by ayr | 1 comment

I don’t have a large car. To get the new truck up in time I had to do some serious running around last week. Including driving to 3 different places to track down the right plastic for the awnings. When I finally found what I was looking for it was 10′ long. I strapped it to the Mini. Not a great idea. About 1/2 way across the Zeekum bridge (is that what it’s called?) the plastic folded in 2 in the wind. Uhg. Another trip…

Installing counters on new truck

25 April, 2010 in Design, Truck by ayr | 2 comments

That’s me. It’s a terrible picture. I took it myself, with the iPhone. You’re not going to notice dramatic changes between the current and the new trucks. But they are there. The counter this time is from a single slab (last time both were from the same tree, but not continuous). The counters are also a bit less deep, and thicker. And I’ve done a better job finishing them. But they are the same wood (red oak).

Other changes include a gravity-fed water system (vs. the current electric pump-operated one), a separate self-contained hand-wash sink (very cool), a much larger sandwich station on the left hand side, room for up to 9 employees in the truck (we max out at 6 right now), double the fryer capacity, better placement of everything in the truck, about 10x the propane we can currently carry, and a killer generator that allows us to keep the refrigerators running even while the truck is driving. Oh, and did I say awning? More on that shortly.

City of Boston + Clover

22 April, 2010 in Financing, Truck by ayr | 2 comments

I’ve been sneaking a few Truck #2 posts in here lately. Soon that truck will have its own Blog. For now they will show up here.

I met this week with the folks over at the City of Boston business development office. They are doing a ton to help us with the new truck. Not least of which is providing us with a loan. That’s right, the City of Boston is loaning us money to grow, $25,000. Of course we’re excited to pay it back with interest, but just as excited to report new jobs we’ll be creating, and most importantly, the number of Bostonians we’ll be feeding.

We suspect a few Boston residents have snuck over Cambridge side to eat with us, but soon Clover will be in Boston proper. We can’t wait. There’s still a ton to get ready (truck, staff, site location), but we’re working hard on it and things are moving forward.

Coffee station

21 April, 2010 in Menu, Truck by ayr | 4 comments

So we’ve graduated from the one-cup-one melitta set-up that got us going. I’ve been thinking about some sort of a coffee station upgrade just as long as I’ve been planning the restaurant. Here you get 2 pictures. We’ve experienced this before. We need something new. We look everywhere. All of the existing solutions are expensive and terrible. We design our own.

The first one is an ugly prototype I made. I just bought some copper pipe and a bender and free-form bent this. I’d study many designs and decided there were basically 3-4 types of pour-over coffee station set-ups. I didn’t love any of them, so I imagined this version with minimal material, minimal weight. All that frame has to do is hold the filter cups at the right spot. That doesn’t take much.

The second is version 1. The folks over at Bostonian Body fabricated this for me out of stainless steel. We are now pouring on version 2, a slightly refined iteration.

New counters for truck #2

26 February, 2010 in Construction, Design, Truck by ayr | 1 comment

I made the trek down to Berkshire Products. This place is about as far as you can get from Boston and still be in MA. But they mill some of the most beautiful wood anywhere. It’s just amazing. I’ve always loved wood. In the context of Clover I think wood can bring warmth to what is going to otherwise be a very cold and modern aesthetic. There are other things we do to ensure things don’t feel to sterile (e.g., breaking up planes and rectangles). But the wood plays a huge role for us. Those counters carry a lot of weight design-wise.

We went with a New England red oak. Well, there’s no way to be entirely sure it’s New England based. I pressed these guys on this issue this time and they admitted that they don’t track. So “almost all” maple, ash, and oak is New England in origin, but they can’t be certain.

They had a production sander this time. They either didn’t have it last time, or I just didn’t see it. Awesome. For $40 they ran it through for me down to 120 grit. That means I got a board that had been planed and sanded. Awesome.

After the break I’ve included pictures of the counter getting sanded and packed on top of my car. I spent the weekend building and finishing the counters. I’ll post the final product when it is installed.

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New truck craziness

10 February, 2010 in Construction, Design, Operations, Team, Truck by ayr | 4 comments

OK. I owe you a ton of posts on the new truck. I’ve been meaning to set-up a new page, I have an entire architecture in mind for our web communication. But it hasn’t happened yet. And in the meantime you’re missing a ton of great stuff.

So here it goes, First real post of Clover truck #2. Sad thing is that picture doesn’t capture everything that’s going on. It’s really a 3 dimensional beast.

The quick catch-up: we’re doing a second truck, it’s being built right now. The City of Boston has invested in the truck, which is awesome. We’re going to reward them with 20 new jobs in under 9 months, a very nice ROI. So the new truck is going to be in Boston. Sorry Cambridgians. We’re still working out the location.

My architects have all sorts of ideas about this truck. Those window angles were a bit of a leap of faith for me, but the architects (SSd) spent hours making sure they were just right. And they are. This thing is gorgeous. There’s a crazy awning planned, and this one is going to actually get completed, I promise. And the truck itself, well we’ve learned a few things. We’re expecting no less than 2x the current throughput. You read that right. When the MIT truck hits 160 customers in an hour, we’re expecting this one can hit double that. Double the friers, double the sandwich stations. Double the staff ? : ) ? It’s going to be crazy.

Deep clean

7 January, 2010 in Team, Truck by ayr | 2 comments

some people might get a haircut or buy some new clothes for their first national TV appearance. at Clover the equivalent involves cleaning the fryer and scrubbing tight spots. Rolando sent up a handful of his students, Enzo came over, a new guy Jonathan showed up. This cleaning stuff, doing it well, is hard work. Ir’s the type of work that leaves you proud if you have the right attitude.

Expect to see a truck tomorrow that is even cleaner than usual.

And did I hear somebody say something about cupcakes?

Have you ever bought a used car?

7 January, 2010 in Truck by ayr | No comments

I remember how excited I was to go through the old records, receipts, etc to try to learn a bit about the former owner and the car’s previous life.

Today I picked truck #2 up from getting the generator installed. I found this package, the truck used to be a bakery truck, ATV bakery, Reading PA (where I went to buy it).

New generator

20 July, 2009 in Biodiesel, Construction, Design, Truck by ayr | No comments

The truck has a bunch of systems: fresh water, waste water, propane, ac power, dc power.

We use a super quiet Honda generator to power the AC. Last week ours died ;explaining the morning start issues Monday and Tuesday. We bought a new generator. And the best thing is that this one weighs 1/2 of what the last one weighed!

Post office wants in on the action

16 July, 2009 in Truck by ayr | 2 comments

Saw this the other day. Sort of wacky isn’t it?

We’ve been making stories

15 July, 2009 in Construction, Truck by ayr | No comments

Where have we been? Having adventures.

We’ll start with this one: the other Fay somebody (it was likely me) drove under something too low. Was it a tree? A hanging clearance sign? We don’t know. It knocked our vent off.

So this image is of me on top of the truck, replacing the exhaust fan.

Ahh… astroturf

24 May, 2009 in Color palette, Construction, Design, Ideas, Menu, Truck by ayr | No comments

The entry to the truck hasn’t been our highest priority. And while the working space of the truck is polished clean every single day, I’ve neglected the entry-well.

So this weekend I tore out the nasty rubber mat, cleaned it up nicely, and cut up a little astro turf. I think it’ll play a functional role (clean our feet), and supposedly it’s easy to clean/ maintain with a hose. We’ll see.

Now I just need to get some aluminum polish and go at that battery access panel with the streaks in the picture. It’s ending : )

Painting the whiteboard

24 May, 2009 in Construction, Design, Environmental, Menu, Operations, Truck by ayr | 1 comment

So you’ll notice we’re undergoing a transition to a more branded Clover. More about where that’s all going later. But you may have noticed our logo on the banner of this blog. I have real business cards if you’ve come and asked for contact info. We’re wearing Clover hats. And now the whiteboards are getting an update.

I have a stencil on order for the logo at the top of the whiteboard. So here I am getting the boards ready for that, and for some more legible menus.

When I was at MIT we worked out all of our ideas, big and small on whiteboards. So it was a natural place for us to post the daily menu for the truck. Problem was that once the way wiped away off of the paint the marker started to penetrate. A bunch of you were telling me I could use Windex, etc. Really the paint was stained and nothing was going to help.

But I found this cool whiteboard paint. It’s a 2 part system, must be some sort of epoxy. 4 coats later the whiteboard looks like new, better than new. We loved the fuzzy blue, but are excited to move forward with clean read-able boards.

Washing the truck

24 May, 2009 in Operations, Truck by ayr | No comments

Clementine helped me wash the truck this weekend. We gave it a thorough bath in preparation for the new whiteboard paint job.

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