Archive for October, 2009

FasTracks: It’s Not Just a Transit Expansion Plan Anymore

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Oddly enough, it’s a breakfast sandwich.  One that you can get with a cup of coffee, orange juice or our whole leaf tea for only $5 everyday!   Now that we’re opening at 7am weekdays, we wanted to be sure to provide a Trolley quality breakfast for our coffee customers and we wanted to provide it fast.  Enter Fastracks.  Our signature steamed eggs, your choice of cheese, bacon or sausage (made locally at Continental Sausage) all housed between a yummy Rudi’s organic English muffin (also local).  All the nutrition you need to get your day started right.  I’m tellin’ ya, there’s no better deal in town.

All we ask is this…remember Red Trolley for your morning coffee.  We promise to get you in and out fast or provide a clean, comfortable place for you to work (Free Wi-Fi!) if hanging out is your thing.  And we promise to do it all with a smile. We brew a different Novo coffee every day (take a world coffee tour every week!) and, really, you have to try our new whole leaf teas.  They’ll make you understand why the rest of the world is so obsessed with tea.

So make the Trolley a part of your morning routine, we’re sure you won’t be disappointed.

PS. Don’t forget the Trolley on the weekends too!  Our delicious made to order brunch will please the whole family!!

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It’s Fall at The Trolley!

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

I love Fall.  Always have.  Sweaters, leaves, spiced cider.  But, I must admit, being the proprietor of an ice cream shop has lent a certain bitterness to the falling leaves. The bustle of summer is gone, no more lines for gelato, no more families gathering on the benches in front of the store, no more kids running up and down the street (at all hours I might add!) with chocolate ice cream remnants on their lips.  The Trolley too trades in its summer duds for the accoutrement of Fall.  The good news of course, is that gelato tastes just as good in December as it does in July–and we’re here for you with the same committment to quality that we had all summer long.  The even better news, however, is that as the seasons change, the Trolley changes with them.  

To highlight this fact we are rolling out our “Free Novo Coffee and Red Trolley Tea for a Whole Week” promotion (I just made that up.  I probably should have come up with something more clever like “Get Your Rush on Us” or “Come For Coffee Without Coughin’ Up Any Coin (oh, that’s my fave!) but I digress…).  That’s right, free.  From October 19th-23rd anyone who signs up for our newsletter, The Scoop, will receive a coupon for a week of free drinking.  Quite honestly, I couldn’t believe it when I heard it myself (the financial people promise me it won’t bankrupt us). 

“Wait” you may say “this sounds great, but I drink my coffee in the wee small hours of the morning and you don’t open until 11??!!”

Got that covered.  Starting the 19th of October The Red Trolley will be opening at 7am on weekdays, just in time for your first jolt of caffeine.

You already knew we had the best coffee (Novo) and now to top it off we have our own private label collection of whole leaf teas.  I’ll give you all the details in the next post.  Meanwhile, SIGN UP FOR THE NEWSLETTER, (www.theredtrolley.com) so that you too can save a week’s worth of coffee coinage.

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$2 T-Dog Tuesdays!

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

 

Beginning Tuesday, Oct. 6th The Red Trolley will introduce $2 T-Dog Tuesdays.  It’s really pretty self explanatory but here’s the scoop anyway…all day on Tuesdays, from open to close, our delicious T-Dogs will be a mere $2!!!

 

The best part is that this is food that you can feel good about eating (or feeding your children as the case may be).  Hot Dogs usually need to be treated as an occasional treat, between the high fat content, the nitrates and the largely questionable ingredients that go into your typical dog.  Honestly, I’ve tried to look at this from several angles (because I strive not to be biased and this is a bold statement I’m about to make) but our hot dogs can actually qualify as GOOD FOR YOU.  I know many of you are rolling your eyes right now but let’s break it down…

 

Our Buffalo Bill—Naturally low in fat, 100% pure buffalo with no additives, no antibiotics, hormones, steroids or other fishy stuff and of course no nitrates or nitrites (ever!)

So here we have a good pure lean protein.

100% whole wheat bun.

So here we have lots of fiber.

Side salad of something seasonal that came directly from the earth (lately it’s been our yummy watermelon feta salad).

So here we have untold nutrients, more fiber and lots of flavor.

Right?  Am I right??  This is actually a good meal.

 (believe me, I feel good about feeding it to my kids ALOT)

So now with a view toward full disclosure, our T-Dog or Spicy Highland or Ballpark Brat is going to be slightly higher in fat than the Buffalo Bill.    The Bird, however, would actually be slightly lower.  We’ve made a concerted effort to find the highest quality meat available because, while I’ve always thought that hot dogs were fun, I’ve also thought they were pretty scary.

Isn’t it time we gave the hot dog a chance to reach its full potential?

Oh yeah, see you on $2 T-Dog Tuesday.

Might as well eat for cheap while you’re eating healthy.

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