NEWBURYPORT — “Espresso to go” is about to get a full new meaning when what is believed to be the city’s initial coffee truck begins rolling into neighborhoods as before long as mid-February.
Modifying Tides cafe co-owners Dawn Pantano and Sharon Pozzi-Thomas arrived up with the strategy months back as a way of growing their Enjoyable Street company that for most of the previous calendar year has been heavily affected by COVID-19 constraints.
“It is interesting for us,” Pantano claimed.
The best pals opened Modifying Tides in March 2019 and saw a great deal of achievements filling a espresso shop lifeless zone on the a lot less-traveled portion of Pleasurable Street. But like all area businesses, they saw a extraordinary downturn when COVID-19 limitations forced businesses to near or alter their operations to hold individuals harmless.
On Friday, the pair picked up the truck from the corporation that painted the exterior. And in the really in close proximity to upcoming, they will begin driving it all-around town really a great deal like an ice product truck.
“Let’s go the place the men and women are,” Pozzi-Thomas mentioned, incorporating that they have not made the decision what kind of music to play while driving all around.
The truck, a 2002 Chevy Workhorse, grew to become attainable following a mate of Pozzi-Thomas alerted them that a utilized foods truck was for sale.
After the duo understood the truck was protected, they secured a permit from the metropolis. The allow enables them to get the truck where ever they like except for the downtown overlay district.
They also can only remain in a person position for 15 minutes. And even though cooking is not allowed in the truck, they can pack all the things they offer in the cafe into the car, in accordance to Pantano and Pozzi-Thomas.
At minimum for a although, the small business partners will take turns driving the truck though the other performs the coffee shop. They are hoping to employ the service of more motorists if the truck business will take off.
“Oh my God, that’s so sweet. What a great concept,” pedestrian Jennifer Bibeault mentioned, as she and two other individuals walked past the new truck Friday afternoon.
So much, the truck does not have a identify. But Pantano and Pozzi-Thomas will be soliciting monikers by using social media. The individual who arrives up with the successful identify will be rewarded with no cost espresso and treats, the two said.
For extra data about when the truck will get started company and the truck-naming contest, go to www.changingtidescafe.com and click on on their social media icons.
Team author Dave Rogers can be achieved at drogers@newburyportnews.com. Observe him on Twitter @drogers41008.