Today I spent time with Warren at Canyon Edge Body Shop in Austin, talking about what we can do with the 1972 VW Bus for the Austin market. The bus has a good number of imperfections in its body, and Warren and I spent time talking about the options if we were to paint it….that …
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This Wednesday at WMU farmers’ market we are going to try something new….with Coffee Rescue — a coffee food truck operated by Jamie Brock. At the WMU farmers’ market, we are side by side in booths with Coffee Rescue. We won’t have our respective trucks at the market, however, will be in booths serving coffee …
This past week we were at three local Kalamazoo farms picking ingredients for the coming Kalamazoo College event, Rockin’ the Dock (September 16th). These ingredients are for the three flavors we will be offering at the event: K College Butternut Squash gelato Lemon-blueberry gelato Peach sorbet For the K College Butternut Squash gelato, we spent time …
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In working on setting up the market in Austin for Rollin’ Gelato, we are fixing up the 1972 RG VW bus. Just like the 1976 RG VW Bus in Kalamazoo, we worked on the brakes first. Thus, the bus went into the mechanic this past week, and we replaced the brake master cylinder (it was …
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Earlier this morning (7am), we picked up the VW bus that we will use for the Austin market. It is a 1972 VW Bus, camper style — like the 1976 VW Bus we have for the Kalamazoo market. Our goal is to build out vintage trucks that we offer our gelato from. Our primary vehicle …
Yesterday, July 27th, Rollin’ Gelato catered gelato to the Michigan Tech Send Off event in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The event was for incoming freshman to Michigan Tech, and about 200 people attended. The weather was wonderful…ly warm, which was good for eating gelato and talking about the university. The event was especially good for us, as …
Earlier this evening we took the RG Food Truck, a 1976 VW Bus, to its first food truck event. The event was in Battle Creek for the Food Truck Fridays event, hosted by the Battle Creek Farmers’ Market Association. The event was from 5-9pm, and we had a blast. First of all, we are happy …
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