hear that train a comin’
If you don’t live on the South Shore of Boston you probably have no idea what I’m talking about when I mention “the Greenbush Line“. Say hello to the new commuter train that will carry folks to and from Boston and hopefully reduce heavy traffic going into Boston from the south. (ha!) What’s a $515 million dollar train project have to do with coffee you ask? Well, I want each and every passenger at the Scituate train stop to get on each morning with a cup of Redeye Roasters coffee, espresso, latte, or cappuccino. The logistics of it are a little crazy but this is how I plan to do it. Each morning I’ll drag a 7×12 trailer with my Ford Bronco to the first Greenbush stop on the Scituate/Marshfield line. The trailer will be eqipped with a 2 group La Spaziale espresso machine, Fetco coffee brewers, and grinders. All the coffee will be roasted the day before and ground fresh so the people are getting a very high quality cup for their trek into beantown. I’ll set up around 5:30 am and sling coffee and espresso’s until 9:30-10:00 am. Getting power to the trailer is the biggest hurdle at this point. The idea of using a portable generator has more or less been scraped due to the fact that in order to push all that equipment I would need a honking 18000 watt monster. I know, buy ten cups of coffee and get a free set of earplugs. Hopefully the T managers will turn out to be really good guys and provide 240 electrical service for me. I need to find someone that has really good fresh pastry that I can pick up each morning before I head to the train. If anybody has resources or suggestions on how to make this work, I’m all ears. They are saying the train will start rolling in the fall 2007. That, remains to be seen.
jaime said,
July 8, 2007 @ 7:53 pm
Pastries are hard. Sample everyone and look for people who aren’t necessarily ‘doing wholesale’ yet. Those people often have much better product then the wholesale ppl.
Interesting to see what happens with the kiosk.
Cheers-
admin said,
July 8, 2007 @ 8:25 pm
There is a little cafe in Cohasset called “French Memories that peddles my coffee. The folks that run it really are “French” and the pastries they make are positively sinful. The problem is they don’t start baking until 6:00 am and I’ll need to be set up by 5:30. That means I have to find someone who is baking at 3:00 am. If you’re ever down this way stop in and try some. Whatever it is you eat will instantly add 6 pounds to your butt.