Pop Up 1

After a successful and very draining 24 hours that had myself not only developing very rudimentary signage and business cards for our grassroots proprietary venture, my lovely wife Kenni and I just prepared and served about 700 portions of our newly named Puffy Pan Bread at Share Our Strenth’s, Taste of the Nation. My eyes right now are being held open with toothpicks and I believe that is going to be a common theme over the next couple of days as I am elated to announce we will be “popping up” in the brick and mortar restaurant of Matt Maroni’s Gaztro Wagon venture (NOT on his food truck).

For those unfamiliar, pop up restaurants is a movement that has been gaining a great deal of speed recently, mostly on the shoulders of Chef Ludo Lefebvre. I met him briefly during my guest blogging assignment for the food truck wing of the NRA Show in May, and saw that his pioneering ways was recently written up in The New York Times.

In any case, Matt asked this week if I had any interest in doing this. I immediately thought it a great idea and planned on giving it a go next week Sunday the 22nd. Considering how the world turns and circumstances unfold however, Kenni and I decided to make a go of it this week.

So here’s the deal:

• Our newly formed Foss Family Food Trucks will be taking over The Gaztro Wagon Restaurant (when the restaurant is normally closed) on Sunday, August 15th at 5973 North Clark Street and make it our own.
• During this time we will be market testing several of our food truck concepts in a live setting for the general public.
• We will open at 8am and serve homemade donuts until we close or sell out (the latter is much more likely).
• From 10am – 2pm we will be serving a brunch that will feature both a Golden Brick and Puffy Pan Bread concept.
• From 2pm until 8pm we will be serving a variation from our Meatyballs Mobile food truck concept.
• Though subject to change (there is a HELL of a lot of shopping to do), you can download the menu here.

I hope you can come out to experience what I hope will be the first of many such endeavors!

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