FORT WALTON BEACH – Alex Bader and Kiara Tona are in a position to give their corner of paradise a name.
The 26-year-old owners of the food truck organization located along Florida Place (Sunset Bowls, Coffee Ave, Rive Café and The Juice Box) have officially classified fresh culture space. The call not only serves as a reference point (“Hey, Meet Me at Fresh Culture”), but also your project for the long-term business and downtown Fort Walton Beach.
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“We are pursuing other concepts that are so popular here – looking to move away from the common frying and looking to give a different atmosphere,” Bader said. “It’s great to see other people who need to spend time here and students doing their homework here. It’s like we’ve opened up a position where other people can come and spend time with their families and spend time together. »
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The concept began with a food truck in July 2018 and was intended to be a weekend concert.
“We started with acai, which was our baby’s type,” Bader said. “We had just taken one to Hawaii and saw a lot of acai food trucks there. When we got here, we looked for acai and there was nowhere to locate this.
“When we talked about it for the first time, we thought briefly, why don’t we open this food truck?”Tona said: “This region wishes it. We love him. “
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In a month, the truck was built, Tona said. Sunset Bowls was so popular that they made the decision to keep it open all week.
“We enjoyed the outdoors and healthy new food,” Tona said. “We just have to take that to this network, so we get on it. The network enjoyed it, so it just took off.
Naturally, they fell into the next concept.
“We were drinking a lot of coffee,” Tona said. We thought, “Dude, it goes really well together, coffee and acai. ” In my opinion, you can never have too many coffees. “
They opened Coffee Ave in December 2018. Et with coffee came here breakfast. Rive Café opened in September 2019.
The Juice Box, which offers pancakes and new fruit juices, has opened up a post-coronavirus epidemic; it is the opposite aspect of car washing like other trucks and has an open seating area. Bader believes other people feel more comfortable outdoors because they can get away socially more easily.
Food trucks are their only commercial aspect. Bader and Tona presented their own coffee logo, Uncommon Roasters, roasted coffee from various backgrounds such as Ethiopia, Guatemala, Colombia, Brazil and El Salvador.
They also recently renovated what was once an automatic car and turned it into a coffee roasting room and a living room. When they demolished the walls, they discovered brick walls intact underneath.
“We sought to expand an area that would allow us to toast and share this with our community,” Bader said. “Sometimes when we toast, other people are here to look, ask questions and be more informed about coffee. it’s a great experience.
“We paint very well together,” Tona added, “We have a lot of ideas. That’s how it’s grown so fast, because we have very much taste and we need the same for this region. “
Oh, and two of the sinks are still working.
“At first he helped us a lot,” Tona said. ” People washed their cars, saw it and said, “Oh, I’m going to have a coffee. “
They are asked if they will close during the “low season,” Tona said. The answer is no; its area is also reserved for the inhabitants, he said.
And now that this activity has taken them from a food truck to four, plus an indoor meeting area and a car wash or two, they see many prospects in downtown Fort Walton Beach. “Bader is from Palm Beach, where when other people are downtown, they feel like they’re downtown,” he said.
“Honestly, we just need to keep coming up with concepts that bring new things downtown, new things to do for other people and stay away from paintings in their free time,” Bader said. “We also hope to do so”. tables with other local businesses and be to devise concepts or festivals where the people allow us to come in combination for things the people would like. “