26 September, 2018: If you received a survey card in line today, please click on this post to get to the survey link. A huge thanks for helping us improve!! Don’t forget to save the end-of-survey page to redeem for your thank-you treat from us. Click here for the Customer Survey September 2018 We’ll be closing this survey at the… Read More
26 September, 2018: This fall, everything has been coming up early. Sweet potatoes are already in. We’re launching the Japanese Sweet Potato Sandwich today (at least if you’re an app user.) And Paw Paws are coming on Tuesday. Paw Paw is a special alien fruit, never before seen in restaurants or on grocery store shelves. It’s native to the Northeast,… Read More
25 September, 2018: Harvard has a class that teaches chemistry and physics through food. There’s a public component, the Science of Cooking lecture series. I remember waiting in line with Rolando to see Harold McGee in 2011. They’ve had every major chef from around the world. This year, Ayr is speaking! He’s talking bread, and how ingredients impact flavor, texture, and… Read More
28 April, 2009: We catered a very nice event last night. We’ve received a lot of requests for catering and have decided to accept select events. MENU Appetizers (passed) • Hard-boiled egg and eggplant (small decomposed elegant version) • Chickpea fritter • Spicy carrot soup in sipping cups • Roasted parsnip and golden beet skewers with spiced BBQ sauce (more after… Read More
24 September, 2018: This is Rolando Robledo, Clover’s chef. We’re absolutely thrilled to have him on board. Rolando found his way to Clover by way of The French Laundry, the Waldorf, and most recently, Johnson and Wales as a professor. He’s going to be working the food truck with me full time for the first 6 weeks and we’re going… Read More
17 September, 2018: I think Gooseberry’s, the Asian food truck at MIT, rocks. Obviously I’m not the only one. This is the line at lunchtime. Nothing special, this is an everyday event. These people are ALL waiting for that white truck up ahead. And it’s not a very long wait, they process folks at a rate of close to 10… Read More
7 September, 2018: What’s up with the sepia? This is the first in a series of re-posts from Year One. We’ll be posting in chronological order leading up to our 10th birthday on 10/29/18. Did we mention we’re trying to hit 10k Instagram followers in time for our birthday? If we do, our prices will roll back in time 10 years.… Read More
28 August, 2018: The sun is shining. It’s hot outside. But the word coming to us from farms is RAIN. Western Massachusetts (where we source most of our produce this time of year) has experienced one of the rainiest summers in the past 10 years. And although it’s dried up now, Ray at Next Barn Over and Dave at Stone… Read More
3 November, 2008: End of last week we realized that we could prep on the drive to MIT, and take-down on the drive back. You might be wondering why this brilliant operations innovation hasn’t yet resulted in earlier and later service. Don’t worry, it will. Right now we’re dealing with other fun problems like a truck that wont start in… Read More
23 August, 2018: On my way up to visit Heiwa tofu last week I stopped at a place called Mister Bagel. I was set to meet Jeff early. He starts his days at 6am and not many places are open that early. And everybody knows I like bagels. At the bagel place there was a pretty substantial menu of “tofu… Read More
22 August, 2018: We’ve had vegans asking for years for more breakfast options. Right now it’s muffins, oatmeal, or overnight oats if you’re vegan. Just, Inc., makers of the Just Mayo we love, brought us this new egg product made from mung beans. Honestly the first few versions we tasted weren’t ready for prime time. But the latest, it’s pretty… Read More
21 August, 2018: That’s Jeff of Heiwa Tofu. He and I are about the same age and we’ve been working on building our companies for about the same period of time: 10 years. I went up last week to Maine to visit Heiwa because we wanted great footage of tofu being made to help tell the story of what Jeff… Read More
16 August, 2018: If you received a survey card in line today, please click on this post to get to the survey link. A huge thanks for helping us improve!! Don’t forget to save the end-of-survey page to redeem for your thank-you treat from us. Click here for the Customer Survey August 2018 Read More
11 October, 2008: John came by this weekend to help with the truck. Above and beyond to have his help like this, and well appreciated as I’m coming out of my 5th 18 hour day in a row. Here John is cutting a template we were thinking we would use to bend the bar that supports the bottom of the… Read More
13 August, 2018: Since day 1 of restaurant #1 everything we hand our customers has been compostable. And I think I’ve told myself as I watched videos of sea turtles that our straws aren’t as bad because they are compostable. But I know that even the compostable straws (1) aren’t really needed, and (2) can get places we don’t want… Read More