Vegan Eats

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Hot Beans is open! Today was day 4 and neither one of us has had much time to breath over the last week or so since the soft open/launch party last Wednesday evening. Speaking of which, the soft open was crazy. From 7 o’clock onwards there was a lineup from the cash register to the door. Insane. We ran out of food in about two and a half hours! All in all, it was a success, although I just wish we had been able to feed some of our closer friends that came later. That was kind of a bummer.

The opening weekend was a lot busier than we expected, which was awesome and very encouraging. We weren’t completely ran off our feet, but all three of us definitely had our work cut out for us (I only speak in idioms now). Maddy’s doughnuts are flying off the counter, we can barely keep up with the demand. All the tacos and burritos seem to be selling pretty consistently, especially the peanut-miso seitan ‘chorizo’ burrito. Now I just have to keep my clumsy self from cutting my hands up anymore with all the prep we have everyday. I’ve definitely been jealous of Scott’s knife skills each time I nearly cut my finger nail off this past weekend.

Anyway, in the slideshow above are some awesome photos my good friend and photographer extraordinaire, Brooks took at the big soft open celebration. I’ve been really stoked to find that friends of ours have been showing us a lot of love, not only by coming to the restaurant for eats, but by giving us shout outs on the bloggosphere. Big thanks to Lauren, Sarah, and Dave! Check ‘em out. Also, our twitter followers have been sending us lots of love too, which is super encouraging. Maddy is very twitter attentive with the iPad we have at the restaurant, which I’m infinitely grateful for; it’s such a wicked to tool to keep people in the loop about all the happenings at Hot Beans!