🙏🏽Every donation will make a significant impact in helping us bring this project to fruition! Thank you for your consideration, kindness, and generosity in advance!! ❤️
Hi!👋🏽
We're Misha and Cat. We're starting a food truck focused on serving healthy drinks in Chattanooga, Tennessee and we need your help to open this summer!☀️
Our local family business focuses on providing healthy options to nourish people’s lives. We value quality and care, with our ingredients being organically grown and sourced locally and regionally when possible. Our goal is to serve the community with kindness. Our food truck will be serving: 🍓Smoothies, 🍋Specialty Lemon-Aide, and fresh 🍉Watermelon Slushies this summer. We have plans to add Mushroom Coffee Alternative, Cacao, and Teas as the season turns colder this fall and winter. We sweeten with only raw honey or dates (no refined sugar). 💧We filter our water with Spring Aqua which also provides minerals and structures the water. And, we plan for our cups and packaging to be compostable. 💚It's our belief that taking care of our internal and external environment is important.
(See our Summer Menu below. )
❤️ When we decided to create this project we envisioned what's something we would love to see in a food truck. We love healthy, yummy food, and keeping it simple and truly natural.
MORE ABOUT OUR STORY AND WHAT LED US TO CREATE THIS...
When we moved to Tennessee in 2023, coming back to Catherine’s home state from California; we noticed that we wished there were more organic, quality focused food places in Chattanooga. This was something that was abundant in Los Angeles and Santa Cruz where we lived before. We also had the special experience of living in Hawaii for a year that transformed us.🌈 It was incredible having so many fresh, delicious, local fruits readily available when we lived on the Big Island; living on an organic farm and in a food forest showed us what a joy that was. We wanted more local fruit around here in Tennessee! So, this is one way we can bring this passion of fresh, local fruit to more people. We look forward to serving the Chattanooga community and beyond with more healthy food options and friendly service!
OUR GROWING PLANS
🍑We are teaming up with a group of caring farmers from the area to provide our berries, peaches, watermelons, etc.. and sourcing our lemons from southern Georgia. We also plan to plant a variety of organic berry plants to ensure the future of our berry supply, teaming with a local organic small farm here. Our goal is to be part of the solution by nurturing our community with bringing more healthy, organic food to this area.🫐
OUR PROGRESS
We've been building out the food trailer and we're almost there! 🤗However, we need some support to cross the finish line. This project is bigger than what we can hold alone. We have put our time, energy and love into this project, using our savings to build out the food trailer and start this vision. And we will continue to devote ourselves to help this project thrive!
🌱Thank you for helping our sapling grow and bear fruit!🌳
OUR PROGRESS AND NEEDS
✅COMPLETED
*Food trailer is almost fully built out. Interior flooring, painting is complete, and cabinets/ counter are ready
*Acquired Major Appliances including- refrigerator, ice maker, extra freezers, 3 compartment sink
*Certified kitchen in place to prep the fruit
*Secured storage for freezers and supplies
*Website built
*Found local farmers and built connection to work with to supply many of our fruits and ingredients
*Completed Entrepreneur Start Up Matrix Course through LAUNCH in Chattanooga
*Working with business advisors through mentorship program in Start Up Matrix
*We’re applying for a small business loan, grants, and other opportunities to finance the growth of our vision
🔵NEED HELP FINISHING
Appliances Needed-Blenders 3 ($600), Steamer ($200), Hot water Dispenser ($200), Slushy Machine ($150), Drink Machine-Lemon-aide Dispensers with 2/3 compartments ($500), Small Freezers under counter($400), Extra Big Freezer for storage ($200)
Generator ($1000)
Planting Organic Berry Plants Locally ($1000)
Water filter ($2,000)
A/C ($1000), Heater ($100)
Trailer Wrap ($2000)
POS system ($1000)
Miscellaneous unforeseen costs ($1000)
Capital to support beginning growth- 1st month of paid employees (2) ($15 an hour x 40 hours for 2 employees (5,400 a month) + Inventory of 1st month food ingredients and supplies inventory cost. (10,000)
🙏🏽Every donation, no matter how small, will make a significant impact in helping us bring this project to fruition to support the health of the Chattanooga, Tennessee community and beyond! Thank you for your kindness and generosity in advance!!
IF YOU’D LIKE TO BE MENTIONED ON OUR WEBSITE AS A DONOR PLEASE LET US KNOW.
Please reach out if you have an idea for another way you can support our vision.
TOGETHER WE THRIVE!
Thank you for considering!
💞With gratitude,
Misha and Cat
Follow the Journey-
Instagram @Azurasfoodtruck
