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Hi! Remember us? Sorry for not blogging for the past month. Now that things are more settled and we’ve hired more people, I’m back!
Not sure if you guys visited during the grand opening, but we worked throughout the night and were the only food pavilion open on Friday. The Thursday before […]

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Here’s a picture of the Americana trolley!  It was unveiled a couple days ago and blows away The Grove’s puny trolley.  Plus it’s colorful orange and not dark green.  When you’re here, take a ride on the trolley and check out our HUGE cream puff pictures that we have on our windows facing the trolley.  […]

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Well maybe you can, because we’re telling you that we’re opening in three days, but you wouldn’t believe us if you saw what our kiosk looks like currently.  Actually, above is a picture from Monday of our pony wall.  I hope you’re impressed with the crazy amount of conduit and piping we have stuffed in […]

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This weekend was our plumber’s birthday (Happy Birthday Trevor!) and so we let him off this weekend to go have fun with 35 of his friends at Pismo Beach. His description of the event was, “Dude, this was an epic weekend”.
This was a very epic weekend for us as well. Daishin, Steve and […]

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Can you believe it??  Next Friday the Americana will open and hopefully we will open with it!  Of the six kiosks, Beard Papa’s is probably the furthest along, but there are still A LOT of issues to be dealt with.  The biggest problem is called the Health Department.  Boring technical stuff on the next few […]

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What was once a mound of dirt is now a big jumble of pipes and conduit.  We passed our underground electrical inspection in one shot, but it took us two times to pass our plumbing inspection.  Of the six food kiosks at the Americana, Beard Papa’s was the first to pass both our underground electrical […]

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Ever wish you were a Ninja Turtle? I always wanted to be Donatello (the purple one). Anyway, I don’t think I want to be one anymore, because I just realized that their home is dark, deep and very inaccessible.
After four feet of digging, we finally struck gold and found our sewer! The […]

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We haven’t started construction yet due to permit issues.  The biggest permit issue?  A health department mandate that an employee accessible restroom must be within 200 feet of the kiosk.  The closest public restroom to our kiosk (and every other kiosk) is around 400 feet away, so the health department doesn’t like that too much.  […]

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We went to the job site again today to hopefully see at least one of six kiosks built. The above picture is what we saw, just walls of the structure. The bad part is that this kiosk isn’t even ours! Our Beard Papa kiosk location still looks like this. Anyway, all […]

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There are about 24 days left before the grand opening, and we haven’t started construction yet. The main reason, as you can see in the picture above, is that our kiosks have not been built yet! We were supposed to get 45 days to build our Beard Papa’s store, but obviously that isn’t […]

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