The bank wasn't going to be ready until 4pm on Monday, so starting Sunday evening, we were counting down the hours. "19 hours to go!" Monday morning, we woke up and the first thing out of our mouths was a current count on how many hours were left. Throughout the day, we were texting with each other, and the butterflies were growing. We had to have insurance on the truck before we could sign the loan, so Thomas got that all taken care of. Finally, it was time! The I's were dotted and the T's were crossed, and we had a check in our hands! We were SO EXCITED!!!!
We flew over to A Hot Mess Food Trucks to hand the check to Tom. The truck is ours, our equipment is being ordered, and this is REAL FOLKS!! (Insert happy scream here) We are set up to go work on one of his trucks next weekend so we can get our feet wet by getting a feel for how a truck is different than working on the line at a restaurant. We will also be meeting with the graphic artist in the very near future to get our logo hammered out and to design the wrap that will go on our truck! We can't wait to have these pictures to post for you! Once we have our logo, we can order our business cards and shirts and all the other great Kickstarter gear that you can receive by pledging to us!
We have also ordered our commercial sausage stuffer and our immersion circulator. Those should be in within the next week, and we will start cranking out sausages and making our friends and family guinea pigs to taste test them!
We literally could not have done any of this without Thomas' mom. She has been right here with us every step of the way, and believes in us so incredibly much. She came up to help us dot those i's and cross those t's, and she was just as excited as we were! In addition to all that, she brought us a desk to get our home office all set up! It's another piece that was necessary for us to put in all the hours needed to keep everything organized, cost all of our recipes, create all of our merchandise, and keep tabs on all the pledges on Kickstarter. (Do you like how I threw that in? haha)
Seriously, we have received a few extremely generous pledges on Kickstarter, but we are not even close to our goal. Our first post about Kickstarter on Facebook was seen by 878 people. If every one of those people pledged only $5, we would be JUST short of our goal!!! $5 is a cup of coffee these days, and it would mean a HUGE difference to us!! If we don't hit our goal by November 16, we do not receive any of the pledges that were made. Please, please share our Kickstarter on your facebook page and tell ALL your friends, and pledge!!!
I know that a lot of people are waiting until they get paid to make a pledge, but as long as you have your pledge amount available in your account by November 16, you don't have to wait! Your card won't be charged until that date, so please pledge now!
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