Author: ayr

Peak Simcoe

We just tasted this year’s Peak Simcoe. This is a beer we ran last spring and people loved.

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China Fresh

Just about everybody who works in the kitchen has beef with me. A long time ago I decided Clover would use fresh garlic. We’d started

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Clover packaging

As you know, we’re working on packaging for WFM and for use in our restaurants. I’ve been snapping references from others. This one was taken

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DC Real Estate

As you may know we’re trying to figure out DC real estate. It’s tricky. 1) We just don’t know it as well as we do

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Rough packaging prototypes

We’ve been working with IDEO to figure out how to present Clover at WFM. Here are some early prototypes from our project. Here we’re playing

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Clover + WFM

We’ve been getting to know the folks at Whole Foods over the past 6-9 months. I learned that some of the leaders have been customers for some time, and keeping an eye on what we’ve been up to at Clover.

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Ayr is missing

I’ve done a terrible job posting almost this entire year. We’re super lucky we have Lucia, because I just haven’t been sharing our stories.

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