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Mobile resaurants on the move in Lansing, East Lansing
Tricia Bobeda | Lansing Noise
June 9, 2011
Nina Santucci and Anthony Maiale of The Purple Carrot Food Truck are taking working in close quarters to a new level.
The couple's been dating for six years and have worked together in restaurants nearly all that time.
Before moving to Michigan, she was a general manager and he was the chef of a Philadelphia restaurant.
"We were there 70 hours a week but there were days when I wouldn't see him all day because we were in completely different parts of the restaurant," Santucci said. "Now I'm a foot apart from him."
"And she's in my kitchen," Maiale said.
The East Lansing couple opened a mobile restaurant in May, inspired by the popularity of food trucks in other cities.
"I had lived in Austin (Texas) and they have a ton of food trucks there," Santucci said. "It's such a fun idea. It's so cool to be able to go up to a truck and get some gourmet fare that's cheap and casual."
The couple hopes to build a customer base using the food truck so they can afford to open a permanent restaurant in the Lansing area.
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Tricia Bobeda | Lansing Noise
June 9, 2011
Nina Santucci and Anthony Maiale of The Purple Carrot Food Truck are taking working in close quarters to a new level.
The couple's been dating for six years and have worked together in restaurants nearly all that time.
Before moving to Michigan, she was a general manager and he was the chef of a Philadelphia restaurant.
"We were there 70 hours a week but there were days when I wouldn't see him all day because we were in completely different parts of the restaurant," Santucci said. "Now I'm a foot apart from him."
"And she's in my kitchen," Maiale said.
The East Lansing couple opened a mobile restaurant in May, inspired by the popularity of food trucks in other cities.
"I had lived in Austin (Texas) and they have a ton of food trucks there," Santucci said. "It's such a fun idea. It's so cool to be able to go up to a truck and get some gourmet fare that's cheap and casual."
The couple hopes to build a customer base using the food truck so they can afford to open a permanent restaurant in the Lansing area.
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I'm a bit surprised how inflexible the local governments have been in allowing these things in more high-pedestrian-traffic urban districts in the city's downtowns. Sounds like something that needs to be changed.
