Latest / Brewsers / Brewsers #360- Alex & Yesica with Lucky Truckin Coffee
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- 0:20Speaker 1: Welcome to Bruisers, a podcast about beer, coffee, booze and bruisers.
- 0:23Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rodie John and today we talked to
- 0:25Speaker 1: Alex and Yessica with Lucky Truck and Coffee. We talked
- 0:29Speaker 1: about how they started a coffee place, being on SmackDown
- 0:32Speaker 1: and so much more. This is such a fun conversation.
- 0:35Speaker 1: Alex grew up with the goat of women's wrestling, Bailey.
- 0:39Speaker 1: We get a little bit into it in the interview,
- 0:41Speaker 1: but she I mean, you'll find out how the connection
- 0:44Speaker 1: works with that. So, without further ado, here is Alex
- 0:47Speaker 1: and Yesica with Lucky Truck and Coffee. I would like
- 0:59Speaker 1: to come to show Alex with Lucky Truck and Coffee.
- 1:02Speaker 1: How are you doing today?
- 1:03Speaker 2: I'm doing great. How are you?
- 1:05Speaker 1: I'm doing well. So for those those who kind of
- 1:08Speaker 1: panised the word picture, where are you at? What's going
- 1:09Speaker 1: on around you?
- 1:11Speaker 2: So? Yeah, I'm just in my home office right now.
- 1:15Speaker 2: Just got off of work, you know a little bit
- 1:17Speaker 2: earlier today, so just kind of relaxing at the house
- 1:20Speaker 2: right now.
- 1:20Speaker 1: Nice. Well, let's go all the way back in time.
- 1:23Speaker 1: What is your earliest memory of coffee?
- 1:26Speaker 2: Shoot, you know, as far as coffee goes. I actually
- 1:31Speaker 2: probably when when I used to so my dad he
- 1:34Speaker 2: used to work. He worked and he sold insulation, and
- 1:38Speaker 2: we would go to work with him, and he started
- 1:40Speaker 2: his shifts at like I got five am, we had
- 1:43Speaker 2: to leave the house. So in summer he would, uh
- 1:46Speaker 2: he would basically ask us to go to work with
- 1:48Speaker 2: him and basically help him work, you know, because he
- 1:51Speaker 2: worked in a warehouse by himself when we were like
- 1:53Speaker 2: teenagers or even middle schoolers, and that was like the
- 1:56Speaker 2: first time like he would make coffee and it was like, well,
- 1:59Speaker 2: we're tired, so we would drink the coffee. That's probably
- 2:02Speaker 2: like my first memory of like having coffee like as
- 2:04Speaker 2: a kid. But yeah, I mean that would be it
- 2:07Speaker 2: right there, you know, just a regular old pot of
- 2:10Speaker 2: coffee that you you know, just brew hold yours.
- 2:14Speaker 1: How long did you actually how what all did you
- 2:17Speaker 1: add to you could actually enjoy the taste of it.
- 2:20Speaker 2: A lot of secreme, lots of sugar, that's for sure.
- 2:23Speaker 2: My dad always had the coffee made, you know, just
- 2:25Speaker 2: the powder in his warehouse. So yep, that's that's basically
- 2:30Speaker 2: how he did it. Me and my brothers.
- 2:33Speaker 1: Well, so what do you think you would you learn
- 2:35Speaker 1: from working. I mean, I imagine your dad obviously got
- 2:38Speaker 1: y'all working because you know, if you got boys and
- 2:41Speaker 1: they're old enough, might as well have him help you.
- 2:44Speaker 2: Yep, yep exactly. So so I mean yeah, I mean
- 2:47Speaker 2: like the biggest thing that he would uh So. So
- 2:50Speaker 2: it's funny because he'd wake us up in the morning.
- 2:52Speaker 2: We'd be like no, no, no, like you know, we're
- 2:54Speaker 2: tired or whatever, and he would tell us like, hey,
- 2:56Speaker 2: we're gonna go if you if you come up and
- 2:58Speaker 2: go to work with me, I'll take for sushi for
- 3:00Speaker 2: lunch or just like and you know, keep in mind,
- 3:03Speaker 2: like this was back in by like the late nineties
- 3:06Speaker 2: and like that wasn't a thing where you got it
- 3:08Speaker 2: everywhere like you can today. So we're like sushi, right,
- 3:11Speaker 2: So we would actually be motivated by food, you know,
- 3:14Speaker 2: by food and drink, you know that kind of thing.
- 3:17Speaker 2: So I guess that kind of always been like, you know,
- 3:20Speaker 2: one of my things, just like food, drink, you know,
- 3:23Speaker 2: things like that.
- 3:24Speaker 1: So hey, this motivates me today as well. So right, yeah,
- 3:29Speaker 1: well how did the idea for Lucky Truck and Coffee begin?
- 3:32Speaker 2: So? So yeah, I know you you kind of met
- 3:36Speaker 2: me through just kind of seeing my coffee account. But
- 3:40Speaker 2: that's the coffee business is actually something that I just
- 3:43Speaker 2: started last year. We actually started off in the industry,
- 3:49Speaker 2: well not in the industry, but just our other business
- 3:51Speaker 2: is actually pet sitting.
- 3:52Speaker 1: So we're gonna ask about that, Yeah, you can talk
- 3:54Speaker 1: about that.
- 3:55Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. So so we basically been doing pet sitting
- 3:58Speaker 2: since twenty twenty since about COVID. My fiance she started it,
- 4:04Speaker 2: and then I kind of got on board early twenty
- 4:07Speaker 2: twenty two where I basically can transition full time into that.
- 4:12Speaker 2: So our kind of my passion for coffee, I just
- 4:16Speaker 2: thought about, like how can we mix coffee and pet sitting,
- 4:20Speaker 2: Like how does that work? You know? And basically what
- 4:22Speaker 2: we did was we started like a small car where
- 4:27Speaker 2: where customers come in the morning they can drop off
- 4:30Speaker 2: their dog and then grab a cup of coffee like
- 4:32Speaker 2: on their way out, you know, as they go to work.
- 4:34Speaker 2: You know, because a lot of our customers they're the
- 4:36Speaker 2: customers that come in drop their dog off, you know,
- 4:39Speaker 2: eight am or seven am, and then they go to
- 4:41Speaker 2: work and they pick up when they're off. So so
- 4:44Speaker 2: that was just kind of like the way I was like, hey,
- 4:46Speaker 2: how can like I kind of mix in like my
- 4:48Speaker 2: passion for coffee and also be able to like you know,
- 4:52Speaker 2: position it to a customer base that we already had.
- 4:55Speaker 2: Really so that was really like kind of what started
- 4:58Speaker 2: it off. And then I needed it to be mobile, right.
- 5:01Speaker 2: I couldn't have it like in the building, like you know,
- 5:04Speaker 2: with dog hair and stuff like that, you know, So
- 5:07Speaker 2: I was like, hey, how can I do this to
- 5:09Speaker 2: where I'm mobile and I can actually even just put
- 5:12Speaker 2: everything away and then just drive this thing and pack
- 5:14Speaker 2: it up. And that was where I kind of got
- 5:17Speaker 2: the inspiration to kind of have you know, be on wheels.
- 5:22Speaker 1: Yeah, so your truck is definitely not a normal truck
- 5:25Speaker 1: if people have seen it, got to describe the truck
- 5:28Speaker 1: you have. And then how did the idea for work?
- 5:30Speaker 1: I mean, like you said, obviously you have to be mobile,
- 5:32Speaker 1: but why that truck?
- 5:34Speaker 2: Well, I was first thinking about like building like a
- 5:36Speaker 2: collapsible cart, you know, something that just kind of folds
- 5:39Speaker 2: up put in the back of my pickup because I
- 5:41Speaker 2: also have like a full size pickup. And I thought
- 5:44Speaker 2: about it and I'm like, man, like, that's going to
- 5:46Speaker 2: be really be like probably over an hour of setup
- 5:50Speaker 2: and take down and then just having all the supplies,
- 5:52Speaker 2: possibly even buying a trailer where I got a trailer
- 5:55Speaker 2: backing into a spot, et cetera, to where I was like,
- 5:58Speaker 2: how can I make it to where it just like
- 5:59Speaker 2: pops up easily? And I first thought about like even
- 6:03Speaker 2: like like even like a small like a like a
- 6:07Speaker 2: golf cart type truck. You know, you're seeing those little
- 6:10Speaker 2: utility trucks that have like a bed on the back.
- 6:13Speaker 2: But then it's kind of I ran into the same thing.
- 6:15Speaker 2: It's like I can only go twenty five miles per
- 6:17Speaker 2: hour and not really safe, you know, can't really take
- 6:19Speaker 2: it on the street. So that's when I kind of
- 6:22Speaker 2: started to like think about like what other options are.
- 6:25Speaker 2: And I remember just just being in like the car scene,
- 6:28Speaker 2: you know, you know, being into like JDM cars and stuff.
- 6:31Speaker 2: I remember these those little Japanese trucks, those little K trucks. Yeah,
- 6:36Speaker 2: and I was able to basically find one and implement
- 6:40Speaker 2: it into the coffee the coffee business.
- 6:44Speaker 1: What's wild is that I've seen that truck now become
- 6:46Speaker 1: more popular over there, and I'm hearing it becoming it's
- 6:51Speaker 1: starting to happen more over here in America. How hard
- 6:54Speaker 1: was it for you to find it whenever you had
- 6:56Speaker 1: the idea and then you did find it.
- 6:58Speaker 2: Yeah, so a lot of So I don't know what
- 7:01Speaker 2: it is like about those trucks, but like there is
- 7:04Speaker 2: a lot of enthusiasts that do like import them in
- 7:07Speaker 2: from Japan and then they just kind of like keep
- 7:10Speaker 2: them as They keep them in their garage, they keep
- 7:12Speaker 2: him on their yard, they keep him in wherever. But
- 7:15Speaker 2: not very many people actually drive them on the street
- 7:18Speaker 2: just because they're there's they're pretty slow. I mean, at
- 7:20Speaker 2: the end of the day, I could get it. I
- 7:21Speaker 2: can get it to probably go about fifty five cruise it.
- 7:25Speaker 2: But basically I was able to like go on just
- 7:28Speaker 2: Facebook marketplace because I did initially look into like actually
- 7:31Speaker 2: importing one. But it's just a lot of headache with
- 7:34Speaker 2: getting it imported, the whole tariff situation and then just
- 7:38Speaker 2: all the broker fees and all that kind of stuff.
- 7:40Speaker 2: So it was just it was just like a three
- 7:42Speaker 2: month process and I ended up like finding one local
- 7:46Speaker 2: from me wow, about two hours away, and uh, he
- 7:51Speaker 2: already had all the paperwork done, he already had it
- 7:53Speaker 2: registered and titled, and I was just like, hey, this
- 7:56Speaker 2: is this is what I mean I mean, of course
- 7:57Speaker 2: it was a little more priceier to go that route.
- 7:59Speaker 2: But you know, like when I met him up, like
- 8:01Speaker 2: he drove it up to the parking lot and like
- 8:04Speaker 2: it ran and it drove, it had plates on it,
- 8:07Speaker 2: and I'm like, all right, this is this is going
- 8:08Speaker 2: to be the one.
- 8:10Speaker 1: So when you obviously went into converting it, where did
- 8:13Speaker 1: you where did you look for ideas or kind of
- 8:17Speaker 1: not shortcuts, but different ways to obviously store things and
- 8:21Speaker 1: make them, like you said, just kind of pop up
- 8:22Speaker 1: and you be ready.
- 8:24Speaker 2: Yeah. So so there is other folks that actually do
- 8:29Speaker 2: have coffee carts or even like barbecue. Like there's actually
- 8:32Speaker 2: a guy in Sacramento, California that he actually does like
- 8:36Speaker 2: a barbecue system out of his you know. So I
- 8:39Speaker 2: was like okay, and I saw his and I was like, okay,
- 8:42Speaker 2: So like you could you know, use this thing as
- 8:45Speaker 2: a utility car for different things? You know. The biggest
- 8:48Speaker 2: issue that I was facing is that the bed is
- 8:51Speaker 2: pretty big. It's nice in the actual bed itself, but
- 8:54Speaker 2: it's not very deep. I only have about thirteen to
- 8:56Speaker 2: fourteen inches top to bottom. That was like the biggest
- 9:00Speaker 2: struggle is just like putting things in there. When I'm
- 9:03Speaker 2: actually you know, going places. So that's why when I
- 9:07Speaker 2: built the actual table on the back, I had to
- 9:11Speaker 2: like you know, put about another five inches or so
- 9:13Speaker 2: just to kind of clear some of the machines, the pumps,
- 9:16Speaker 2: the water systems, you know, and the sink. I have
- 9:20Speaker 2: a sink in there, all that good stuff.
- 9:21Speaker 1: So so yeah, because I talked to somebody in Salt
- 9:25Speaker 1: Lake City who did it with a motorcycle and then
- 9:27Speaker 1: he ended up getting a brick and mortar later. So
- 9:31Speaker 1: these carts are absolutely amazing ideas. And I love the
- 9:34Speaker 1: fact that there's more people doing it because again, like
- 9:37Speaker 1: you bringing it to other places. I really love what
- 9:40Speaker 1: you guys are doing obviously with Lucky Buddies, and you
- 9:43Speaker 1: guys are just already having it there for people in
- 9:45Speaker 1: the morning, drop the dog off, pick some coffee up,
- 9:47Speaker 1: go about your day. But then you know you're doing
- 9:49Speaker 1: it obviously and pop up in mobile areas too. When
- 9:52Speaker 1: did you start? When was kind of the first I guess,
- 9:57Speaker 1: first time you really kind of did a pop up
- 9:59Speaker 1: or outside obviously Lucky Buddies.
- 10:03Speaker 2: Let's see, what was my first, man, what was my
- 10:05Speaker 2: first pop up? I'm trying to think of I think
- 10:09Speaker 2: it was for So basically the neighbors to the Lucky
- 10:15Speaker 2: Buddies was a gym and they moved. But the gym,
- 10:21Speaker 2: the gym basically wanted us to say, hey, we're having
- 10:25Speaker 2: like a meet you know where they were. It's a
- 10:28Speaker 2: strength and conditioning gym, so they have like meats there,
- 10:32Speaker 2: and they wanted me to say, hey, like, you know,
- 10:35Speaker 2: can you just have your truck come through the gym
- 10:38Speaker 2: and all of the people that are traveling from different
- 10:40Speaker 2: parts of like the Bay Area, they can actually just
- 10:43Speaker 2: you know, after they're done with their workout or whatever,
- 10:46Speaker 2: they can grab a coffee. So that that was gonna
- 10:47Speaker 2: be like my first experience, and it was It was
- 10:50Speaker 2: nice because it was you know, very familiar with me.
- 10:53Speaker 2: I literally it was next door, so that wasn't comfortable
- 10:58Speaker 2: with So that was like a little test for for me.
- 11:02Speaker 2: But but I mean as far as like my my
- 11:05Speaker 2: biggest test would most would would was most likely when
- 11:10Speaker 2: I was able to do uh Bailey's Toy Drive because
- 11:15Speaker 2: that was where I saw like, you know, hundreds of customers,
- 11:19Speaker 2: hundreds of people that were buying coffee, and that was
- 11:23Speaker 2: where I was able to like kind of like kind
- 11:25Speaker 2: of gauge on like what I'm capable of, and then
- 11:27Speaker 2: like really kind of know, like, hey, what do I
- 11:30Speaker 2: need to invest in? And basically my n espresso machine
- 11:34Speaker 2: was really the biggest investment that I had to do
- 11:37Speaker 2: after experiencing an event like that.
- 11:40Speaker 1: Well, for those who don't know who Bailey is, tell
- 11:42Speaker 1: us who Bailey is.
- 11:44Speaker 2: So so yeah, so so so Bailey. You know, she's
- 11:48Speaker 2: w W Superstar Women's Wrestling Champion.
- 11:52Speaker 1: The Goat of women dressing is what I call her
- 11:54Speaker 1: because not only in the ring, but what she has
- 11:57Speaker 1: done now outside of the ring with this lord Stone
- 12:01Speaker 1: project that she's been doing is giving back to the
- 12:03Speaker 1: independent women in the in the world. I love it.
- 12:06Speaker 1: I think she's absolutely the greatest.
- 12:08Speaker 2: So yeah, continue, sorry yeah, yeah, no, no, absolutely. And
- 12:11Speaker 2: the thing is is I might be a little biased
- 12:14Speaker 2: as well, because I'm actually childhood friends with her. So
- 12:18Speaker 2: I met her in fifth grade when she moved to
- 12:21Speaker 2: my middle school, and uh, you know, as a kid,
- 12:25Speaker 2: you know, she would tell me like, hey, I'm gonna
- 12:27Speaker 2: be a I'm gonna be a wrestler when I'm a girl,
- 12:29Speaker 2: and everyone's like, yeah, sure, you are right, I'm be
- 12:31Speaker 2: an astronaut, right, exactly. Yeah, two thousand and nine, I
- 12:34Speaker 2: went to her first match, you know, when we were like,
- 12:38Speaker 2: I think our early twenties. I went to her first match,
- 12:41Speaker 2: which is the local local wrestling organization out here, and
- 12:46Speaker 2: h and man, like she did it, and I was like, hey,
- 12:48Speaker 2: at the end of the day, whether she this is
- 12:50Speaker 2: where it ends. Like at the end of the day
- 12:51Speaker 2: she said she was going to become a wrestler and
- 12:53Speaker 2: then and then it just as you know, went off
- 12:56Speaker 2: from there. So super proud of her and and yeah,
- 13:00Speaker 2: I'm super grateful for kind of her being able to, like,
- 13:04Speaker 2: like you said, like just give back to those people.
- 13:06Speaker 2: And like as soon as she saw that, like I
- 13:08Speaker 2: had a coffee business, she was like, You're gonna be
- 13:10Speaker 2: my higher for for any event that I do in
- 13:12Speaker 2: the Bay Area. So I was like, okay, you know,
- 13:14Speaker 2: I'm good with that.
- 13:16Speaker 1: So is that how you get to Monday Night Raw?
- 13:18Speaker 2: Also yeah, so that was that was actually smacked down,
- 13:21Speaker 2: but yeah, yeah, same same thing. So she so she
- 13:27Speaker 2: she obviously came and tried the coffee for her charity event, right,
- 13:31Speaker 2: and you know, she was funny because she was like
- 13:34Speaker 2: she was like, hey, Alex, I'm gonna be honest with you.
- 13:36Speaker 2: I'm like, what, like, I wasn't sure how good if
- 13:38Speaker 2: your coffee was even gonna be good, but I was
- 13:40Speaker 2: gonna still support you because you're one of my friends, right.
- 13:43Speaker 2: But she was like, but then I came and tried
- 13:44Speaker 2: your coffee and I'm like excited, Like I'm like, dude,
- 13:47Speaker 2: it was so good, and I was like like happy,
- 13:50Speaker 2: like oh wow, like you know, like yeah, like I
- 13:51Speaker 2: try my best and like I have my recipes and
- 13:54Speaker 2: you know, at the end of the day, you know,
- 13:56Speaker 2: you may like it, you may not. But the fact
- 13:57Speaker 2: that she really liked it, she's just like, dude, like
- 14:01Speaker 2: next time I'm in town, I'm gonna definitely like come
- 14:04Speaker 2: back and see you, you know. And I'm only open
- 14:06Speaker 2: once or twice a week, so I'm not I'm not
- 14:08Speaker 2: open like a full on cafe or anything. So she
- 14:12Speaker 2: she had messaged me just that Monday or Tuesday even,
- 14:17Speaker 2: and she's like, hey, just I'm gonna be in town
- 14:19Speaker 2: for SmackDown. Do you have Are you gonna have the
- 14:23Speaker 2: coffee truck open? And that week I actually didn't. It's
- 14:26Speaker 2: because I had a lot of other stuff going on,
- 14:28Speaker 2: and I was like, well, I'm not gonna be open,
- 14:31Speaker 2: but of course, like if you want to come through,
- 14:33Speaker 2: I always have the ingredients to make coffee, right, so
- 14:35Speaker 2: if you wanted to come and get one, I'll open
- 14:38Speaker 2: it for you. And she's like, you know what, She's like,
- 14:41Speaker 2: would you just come to the SAP Center and like
- 14:43Speaker 2: just sell it to like all my coach she calls
- 14:46Speaker 2: them her coworkers, right my coach's yeah, yeah, exactly right.
- 14:49Speaker 2: And I'm just like, can I do that? Like if
- 14:53Speaker 2: someone gives me the permission to do that, like, I
- 14:56Speaker 2: will do it. She's like, just let me give me
- 14:59Speaker 2: a day and I'll get back to you and see
- 15:01Speaker 2: what I could I could do. I'm like all right,
- 15:03Speaker 2: And then sure enough, the next day she's like, hey,
- 15:05Speaker 2: I got you set up. You know, get here at
- 15:07Speaker 2: nine am. We're gonna pull you into the back where
- 15:10Speaker 2: all the or all the talent is and uh yeah,
- 15:13Speaker 2: and I'm gonna just prep I'm just gonna pay you
- 15:15Speaker 2: for your day just sell coffee to to basically everybody
- 15:18Speaker 2: who's who's there wrestling and all the staff members and
- 15:22Speaker 2: so yeah, it was it was a pretty awesome experience.
- 15:24Speaker 2: And it was like last minute and I'm like sure,
- 15:26Speaker 2: like let's do this, you know. So, so me and
- 15:28Speaker 2: my fiance we uh we we made it happen. See.
- 15:32Speaker 1: I saw it on social media and I was like, oh,
- 15:34Speaker 1: what is this coffee company? So I looked all up
- 15:36Speaker 1: and then I didn't I didn't know she paid for
- 15:38Speaker 1: your entire day as opposed to like obviously every superstar
- 15:41Speaker 1: or her coworkers as she calls them.
- 15:43Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 15:44Speaker 1: Yeah, right, that's amazing. I love that.
- 15:46Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. So it was funny because people would be like,
- 15:48Speaker 2: how much do I owe you? And I'm just like, hey,
- 15:50Speaker 2: you just got to go thank Bailey. She's like, no way,
- 15:52Speaker 2: no way. I'm like, dude, she she paid for everybody stuff,
- 15:55Speaker 2: like you're in her hometown. She wants to, you know.
- 15:58Speaker 2: And that's what made me feel good because I'm like, like,
- 16:00Speaker 2: you're basically you know, excited about my my business and
- 16:05Speaker 2: my brand if my you know, you you enjoyed my
- 16:08Speaker 2: coffee to where you want to just provide it for
- 16:10Speaker 2: your for your you know, coworkers, and and and let
- 16:13Speaker 2: me know how was it, you know, And she was
- 16:15Speaker 2: like this is the best one. You got to try
- 16:17Speaker 2: this one. She was like hipping me up more than
- 16:20Speaker 2: I was. I'm like hey, hey, like you know, like
- 16:22Speaker 2: like I know, you guys travel the world, so you
- 16:24Speaker 2: get coffee everywhere. So you know, I'm gonna provide you
- 16:28Speaker 2: what I got and then you go from there. How
- 16:30Speaker 2: well you like it?
- 16:31Speaker 1: So what? Yeah, so talk to us about your menu?
- 16:33Speaker 1: What is your menu normally?
- 16:35Speaker 2: Yeah? So, I mean my menu is kind of a
- 16:37Speaker 2: mixed of things. It's like a lot of people ask like, oh,
- 16:41Speaker 2: like their drinks are drinks are like are hot or cold?
- 16:44Speaker 2: And I'm like me, I'm kind of backwards. So like
- 16:46Speaker 2: our menu, every drink is cold, but you can get
- 16:49Speaker 2: it hot. So that's kind of like the main difference.
- 16:52Speaker 2: So sometimes I have to specify that and say, hey,
- 16:54Speaker 2: like these drinks are all kind of tailored to be
- 16:56Speaker 2: like cold lattes type type drinks. But you know, our
- 17:00Speaker 2: menu is pretty robust. I mean, so we have a
- 17:02Speaker 2: lot of things from you know, raspberry raspberry white mochas.
- 17:06Speaker 2: We have like a salted salted caramel drink that we
- 17:10Speaker 2: call the Golden Doodle, kind of like doing homage to
- 17:13Speaker 2: our Pet City business. We do like a Vietnamese ic coffee,
- 17:18Speaker 2: I know, because that's just really popular here in San Jose.
- 17:21Speaker 2: So yeah, so we have a lot of different options,
- 17:23Speaker 2: and then of course you know our seasonal drinks. You know,
- 17:26Speaker 2: we had to have a pumpkin drink. We have a
- 17:28Speaker 2: banana drink that we're actually working on right now now,
- 17:31Speaker 2: just kind of perfecting it. Just yeah, so corchata, you know,
- 17:35Speaker 2: we have that, you know. So yeah, we just kind
- 17:39Speaker 2: of have a nice menu where it's kind of a mixture.
- 17:41Speaker 2: And then and then of course we always we have
- 17:43Speaker 2: the classics, you know, because we're always going to have somebody, Hey,
- 17:46Speaker 2: I just want to latte, Hey I just want an Americano,
- 17:48Speaker 2: you know, so we got the classics on there as well.
- 17:51Speaker 1: Now, when you were at SmackDown, what was the most
- 17:53Speaker 1: common order?
- 17:55Speaker 2: Well, well, Pam, you know Bailey, she she really was
- 17:59Speaker 2: hyping up the salted Golden noodle. So it's a it's
- 18:02Speaker 2: a caramel salt, it's got the cream shots of espresso
- 18:06Speaker 2: of course, and that's just kind of topped off with
- 18:09Speaker 2: a little bit of caramel drizzle. That's kind of like
- 18:12Speaker 2: the most popular drink that she liked. So she was
- 18:14Speaker 2: like hyping that up for everybody.
- 18:17Speaker 1: What was what was the most unique order you got?
- 18:19Speaker 1: Because obviously these men and women are very fitness conscious
- 18:23Speaker 1: and what's going on? A Yeah, so what was the
- 18:26Speaker 1: most unique one you got?
- 18:27Speaker 2: That's funny, yeah, because you know when I did it,
- 18:29Speaker 2: I'm like, you know what, I'm definitely gonna have to
- 18:31Speaker 2: bring the alternative mill, you know. You know, I can't
- 18:36Speaker 2: remember who it was or like, I cannot have any
- 18:38Speaker 2: dairy because if I'm out there and I got to
- 18:40Speaker 2: use the restroom like you know. But but yeah, I
- 18:43Speaker 2: think the most unique drink by the way, by the way,
- 18:50Speaker 2: Yessica is now here with me.
- 18:52Speaker 1: Hello, yes, hello, But.
- 18:56Speaker 2: Do you remember what the what the the most was
- 18:59Speaker 2: there anything? It's look out like as far as like
- 19:01Speaker 2: with someone ordered.
- 19:02Speaker 3: I mean I think because of Bailey's recommendation, it definitely was.
- 19:07Speaker 4: The salted Golden Doodle. But it was mainly.
- 19:11Speaker 3: With like oat milk or almond milk and sugar free.
- 19:15Speaker 3: So we were able to make that happen for them.
- 19:19Speaker 2: Oh you know what it was somebody I can't remember
- 19:21Speaker 2: who it was, but they came like three times and
- 19:24Speaker 2: ordered it, ordered three drinks and it was like within
- 19:26Speaker 2: a two hour period, and I'm like, man, that's a
- 19:28Speaker 2: lot of espresso. I think it was it was one
- 19:31Speaker 2: of the crew. It wasn't It wasn't a superstar, okay,
- 19:33Speaker 2: but that was pretty funny though.
- 19:37Speaker 1: Well, so anybody wanted to book you for obviously a
- 19:40Speaker 1: pop up or yeah, can people pookie for events? Or
- 19:42Speaker 1: how does this work?
- 19:44Speaker 2: Yeah? So, I mean, you know, like I'm at that
- 19:46Speaker 2: because we're pretty new, right, Like I said, really started
- 19:48Speaker 2: like late late last year for as far as like
- 19:51Speaker 2: getting off our feet off the ground and actually like
- 19:53Speaker 2: getting the truck ready to like do an event versus
- 19:56Speaker 2: just doing their own little thing. But yeah, like I'm
- 20:01Speaker 2: at that point where I kind of like just say
- 20:03Speaker 2: yes to everybody, you know, like, yeah, if I'm available,
- 20:06Speaker 2: like let's try it. You know. So I've done school
- 20:10Speaker 2: you know, events where i'm you know, nonprofit schools to yesterday,
- 20:17Speaker 2: I was at a four twenty event, you know. So
- 20:20Speaker 2: so I'll do basically anything where uh you know, I
- 20:23Speaker 2: feel like coffees is so universal to like almost anything,
- 20:26Speaker 2: you know, coffee goes with everything, So people are going
- 20:30Speaker 2: to enjoy coffee regardless of what they're doing.
- 20:32Speaker 1: So now you're you're right, Well, so I mean we're
- 20:35Speaker 1: almost halfway through twenty twenty six. What does the rest
- 20:38Speaker 1: of your look like for y'all? When it comes to
- 20:40Speaker 1: obviously Lucky Trucking and then when it comes to Lucky
- 20:43Speaker 1: Buddies as well.
- 20:45Speaker 2: Uh yeah, So with Lucky Buddies, we actually just made
- 20:48Speaker 2: a huge expansion to where so I mentioned earlier how
- 20:51Speaker 2: that gym they moved, So we actually took over that
- 20:55Speaker 2: gym and we basically just are utilizing their huge open
- 20:59Speaker 2: indoor space for just our doggy daycare. So that that
- 21:04Speaker 2: was huge for us because before this this expansion that
- 21:08Speaker 2: we basically aprils when we when we opened the second
- 21:11Speaker 2: the other half, but before that we were operating out
- 21:14Speaker 2: of two locations for one for daycare, one for boarding,
- 21:17Speaker 2: and it just made things a lot more complicated as
- 21:19Speaker 2: far as like drop offs, pickups, and then like employees
- 21:22Speaker 2: are kind of like in two different locations. So that
- 21:25Speaker 2: was a huge win for us there. So it's really
- 21:28Speaker 2: just kind of like fine tuning that, right, what does
- 21:31Speaker 2: labor look like? What is you know, how do we
- 21:34Speaker 2: use this expansion as a way to get more customers
- 21:37Speaker 2: and just you know being able to like provide a
- 21:40Speaker 2: different experience now with a larger space and then with
- 21:46Speaker 2: the coffee. You know, it's just one of those things
- 21:47Speaker 2: where continue to you know, build a brand, just be
- 21:52Speaker 2: out there, be more more recognizable, and even even and
- 21:56Speaker 2: maybe even have like a more permanent space where instead
- 22:00Speaker 2: of only open one to two days a week, maybe
- 22:02Speaker 2: it's like two days out of the week we're always
- 22:05Speaker 2: in this one location and then the other day it's
- 22:07Speaker 2: kind of jump around. So that way, it's it's something
- 22:10Speaker 2: where we can still you know, because we still want
- 22:12Speaker 2: to be able to maintain the ability to say like hey,
- 22:15Speaker 2: we're on we're on, we're on four wheels, we can travel,
- 22:17Speaker 2: we can go to you, but at the same time
- 22:19Speaker 2: also be like, hey, well we have those regulars, you know,
- 22:22Speaker 2: because because I get like messages like you guys open today,
- 22:25Speaker 2: you guys open, the guys open to stay. It's like
- 22:27Speaker 2: you'll know when we're open because all the post it,
- 22:29Speaker 2: you know. But it's like, you know, so it's like
- 22:31Speaker 2: being able to like serve those regulars, I mean, that
- 22:34Speaker 2: would be a huge, huge win for us.
- 22:36Speaker 1: I love that you have your people fiending for your
- 22:38Speaker 1: coffee now.
- 22:39Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And you know, and that was like, you know,
- 22:42Speaker 2: it makes us feel good because it's like, hey, we're
- 22:44Speaker 2: doing something right, you know, because you know, there's a
- 22:45Speaker 2: lot of there's a lot of coffee places, and you know,
- 22:47Speaker 2: I think that, you know, I don't think to me
- 22:50Speaker 2: when it comes to coffee, it's like there's coffee, but
- 22:54Speaker 2: it's like sometimes it's different, like you know, there there's
- 22:56Speaker 2: sometimes or believe it or not, like I'll actually go
- 22:58Speaker 2: to a coffee shop and get caught because it's different
- 23:01Speaker 2: than what I make, you know, and sometimes framing something different,
- 23:04Speaker 2: you know, and I think, like, you know, there's enough
- 23:07Speaker 2: coffee to go around, so it's like obviously there's competition,
- 23:11Speaker 2: but at the same time, as like if you can
- 23:12Speaker 2: offer something unique and you can offer something that's good,
- 23:16Speaker 2: I think like you can still continue to to win
- 23:19Speaker 2: in that situation.
- 23:21Speaker 1: No, it's true. I mean, like you said, you're unique.
- 23:23Speaker 1: You're actually giving back to the community, and you're doing
- 23:25Speaker 1: absolutely fantastic things all the way around. So yeah, you
- 23:28Speaker 1: guys are doing fanatic You're doing great.
- 23:30Speaker 2: Appreciate that well.
- 23:32Speaker 1: So I have a segment of the show. I call
- 23:34Speaker 1: it the five counts, just five random questions. Okay, Number one,
- 23:38Speaker 1: well just for both of you. Number one, what emoji
- 23:41Speaker 1: do you use most?
- 23:44Speaker 2: For me?
- 23:45Speaker 4: I think it's the heart emoji, just.
- 23:48Speaker 1: The regular red one or different colors.
- 23:50Speaker 4: In different colors. Any who I'm talking with.
- 23:54Speaker 2: I mean, I'm looking at my phone real quick, and yeah,
- 23:57Speaker 2: it's definitely gonna be the laughing you know, just probably
- 24:02Speaker 2: sharing memes with my brothers or something and sending them
- 24:04Speaker 2: laughing emojis.
- 24:06Speaker 1: Makes number two. If you are a progresser or MMA fighter,
- 24:10Speaker 1: what would your name be?
- 24:16Speaker 3: Oh, my goodness, I would say for me, it would
- 24:19Speaker 3: probably be It's just funny to even think about it.
- 24:26Speaker 3: So growing up, yeah, I used to always be like
- 24:30Speaker 3: my like a name I would like to be called,
- 24:34Speaker 3: so start in English, So I would say I would
- 24:37Speaker 3: do that.
- 24:37Speaker 2: I never knew that, Okay, me, I don't know. I
- 24:43Speaker 2: probably would do. I mean maybe I probably wouldn't be
- 24:45Speaker 2: able to because of like licensing and stuff. But I
- 24:48Speaker 2: love Star Wars, so i'd probably do like a Star
- 24:50Speaker 2: Wars name, like Dars something.
- 24:54Speaker 1: I think there's ways around it if you get creative enough. Right,
- 24:57Speaker 1: there's a lot of names out there. I'm like, how
- 24:59Speaker 1: do they get away with that? Number three? If you
- 25:03Speaker 1: were on America's Got Talent, what would your talent be?
- 25:08Speaker 4: Oh? Oh my goodness.
- 25:10Speaker 3: I want to say singing, because I think I'm a
- 25:13Speaker 3: great singer, but I don't think other people would say
- 25:17Speaker 3: the same.
- 25:21Speaker 2: Shoot, I mean for me, I mean, I mean, I
- 25:25Speaker 2: guess it would just be after making coffee.
- 25:27Speaker 1: I mean something else in before, but that that that yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 25:35Speaker 2: Man. If I had a talent, I mean you kind
- 25:40Speaker 2: of do it all. Oh man, that's that's a tough one.
- 25:46Speaker 2: America's got talent.
- 25:51Speaker 4: You're pretty funny sometimes.
- 25:53Speaker 2: I mean, I guess yeah, I mean comedy, I guess.
- 25:58Speaker 2: I mean the only thing as far as I go
- 26:00Speaker 2: on the stage presence.
- 26:02Speaker 1: There you go. I mean you'd have time because you
- 26:04Speaker 1: would know when you're gonna do. It's not gonna be
- 26:06Speaker 1: like a surprise.
- 26:06Speaker 2: You're on.
- 26:10Speaker 1: Number four? Who are what inspires you?
- 26:14Speaker 5: Mm?
- 26:14Speaker 3: For me, I think it has always been my mom,
- 26:19Speaker 3: just because she had seven of us and that's just
- 26:24Speaker 3: insane to me, and I just she made it seem
- 26:28Speaker 3: so easy we have to do and I still don't
- 26:32Speaker 3: know how she did everything that she did when I
- 26:35Speaker 3: was younger, so growing up, like everything I did, I
- 26:38Speaker 3: was inspired by her courage and how brave she was
- 26:43Speaker 3: to have all of us and just how she got
- 26:45Speaker 3: through in life.
- 26:50Speaker 2: Okay, Shoot, my inspiration I feel like, uh, I mean
- 26:56Speaker 2: I don't, I don't think I could like narrow it
- 26:58Speaker 2: down to like a particular person or thing. I think
- 27:02Speaker 2: it's just that when I see, like when I see
- 27:06Speaker 2: somebody who's like like super genuine and like they're like
- 27:11Speaker 2: not only are they like maybe really good business savvy
- 27:14Speaker 2: or they're or they're smart, but they're also like like
- 27:17Speaker 2: really like pure at heart, you know. So Like, so
- 27:19Speaker 2: I have like a couple of friends that like, sometimes
- 27:23Speaker 2: you're just like, man like, why are you so good?
- 27:25Speaker 2: Like why are you so nice? Like is what's for you? Sometimes? Right?
- 27:28Speaker 2: And sometimes you kind of like you kind of see
- 27:30Speaker 2: somebody who's like that, and you're like really like really selfless,
- 27:33Speaker 2: and you're like, man like, this person's like really like
- 27:35Speaker 2: living for the joy of living, you know, not not
- 27:38Speaker 2: just to hey, like I'm here to make a book
- 27:40Speaker 2: off this person or that person. It's like I'm here
- 27:43Speaker 2: to actually like just help others and inspire inspire others,
- 27:46Speaker 2: and the wealth and riches will come with that, you know.
- 27:49Speaker 2: And I think people like that I meet like that
- 27:52Speaker 2: those are the people that like I really inspire by.
- 27:55Speaker 1: I love that. That's amazing. And Number five, what would
- 27:58Speaker 1: you tell your seventeen year old self?
- 28:03Speaker 5: Mmm?
- 28:04Speaker 4: For me, I would say you got it and never
- 28:07Speaker 4: give up.
- 28:08Speaker 2: Oh yeah, seventeen zero self to me, man, I would say,
- 28:16Speaker 2: just take risks, you know, take take more risks. You know.
- 28:21Speaker 2: I think, like I think for a long time, like
- 28:26Speaker 2: I was always afraid to take risks and stuff. I mean,
- 28:29Speaker 2: so I never really like like started like something like
- 28:33Speaker 2: I had a lot of ideas, but never actually like
- 28:35Speaker 2: did them. You know. It was more just like thoughts.
- 28:37Speaker 2: And then I think as I got older, it's just
- 28:40Speaker 2: kind of like, well, you know, what more do I
- 28:42Speaker 2: got to lose? You know, it's like I gotta take
- 28:44Speaker 2: a risk and try something different and try something new.
- 28:48Speaker 2: So I feel like, you know, just go for it.
- 28:50Speaker 2: You know, if there's something that you are aren't are
- 28:54Speaker 2: passionate about, go for it because at the end of
- 28:58Speaker 2: the day, you got you got plenty of time, hopefully
- 29:00Speaker 2: right to try something different. If you're seventeen, so.
- 29:04Speaker 1: Well, I mean you could really tell yourself that at
- 29:05Speaker 1: any age, because I mean, tomorrow's not promised.
- 29:07Speaker 2: That's true.
- 29:08Speaker 1: Yeah, So this is not part of the five count.
- 29:11Speaker 1: We just did the five count, but I thought about
- 29:13Speaker 1: this while we were doing it. When you're in business
- 29:15Speaker 1: with your partner, I'm curious, is there a safe word
- 29:20Speaker 1: where you have to stop talking about business or is
- 29:22Speaker 1: it just something where you's just it is always there.
- 29:27Speaker 2: That's that's actually a really good, good question. Sometimes we
- 29:31Speaker 2: you know, it is a challenge, you know, because we
- 29:34Speaker 2: actually just talked about this yesterday where we're just like, man, like,
- 29:37Speaker 2: you know, like we have two young young children as well,
- 29:40Speaker 2: we have a two year old and a one year old,
- 29:42Speaker 2: so yeah, so and we're trying to juggle two businesses,
- 29:47Speaker 2: two kids and kind of that's that's kind of and
- 29:50Speaker 2: then we literally were saying, like that's literally all we do, right,
- 29:53Speaker 2: So I think, you know, finding finding the balance, like
- 29:58Speaker 2: you mentioned, and maybe it is a safe word, you know.
- 30:02Speaker 2: I think that's something that you know, we don't have
- 30:04Speaker 2: at the moment necessarily, but it's definitely something that we
- 30:07Speaker 2: discuss and talk about, yeah.
- 30:10Speaker 3: Because just finding a balance can be very tough a
- 30:16Speaker 3: lot of the time because with having two businesses plus
- 30:20Speaker 3: the babies, and then when we are at home, that's
- 30:24Speaker 3: like kind of our time to be away from the businesses.
- 30:28Speaker 3: But at the same time, it's the time that we
- 30:31Speaker 3: have to brainstorm on kind of like what's next, and
- 30:35Speaker 3: like our next goals.
- 30:38Speaker 4: So definitely having a.
- 30:40Speaker 3: Safe word would be something you would have to come
- 30:43Speaker 3: up with because it is a challenge for us at
- 30:47Speaker 3: this time.
- 30:50Speaker 1: Oh there it is, Okay, I don't know. I don't
- 30:52Speaker 1: know that my under year. So I have luckily talked
- 30:56Speaker 1: to multiple people who have been in couples and they
- 30:59Speaker 1: runt businesses and then have said, again, it's a balance.
- 31:02Speaker 1: You have to figure it out, and you will figure
- 31:04Speaker 1: it out obviously, like being in a partnership, you will
- 31:07Speaker 1: find out exactly the give the take. Obviously I would
- 31:11Speaker 1: say roles, but not really because you kind of do
- 31:13Speaker 1: a little bit of everything. But one person is going
- 31:15Speaker 1: to be stronger with one thing and one person's going
- 31:17Speaker 1: to be stronger with other things. I mean, just like
- 31:19Speaker 1: raising a kid, same thing with a business. But again,
- 31:22Speaker 1: you have to find time with each other, for each
- 31:25Speaker 1: other and you know, support each other in every way. Again,
- 31:29Speaker 1: just like a partnership. So you guys will find the
- 31:31Speaker 1: balance and if you have to come up with the
- 31:33Speaker 1: safer and come up with a safer.
- 31:35Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we agree.
- 31:39Speaker 2: And we're gonna be next next week, not this weekend,
- 31:43Speaker 2: but the following we're gonna be doing a little Disneyland
- 31:45Speaker 2: trip so awesome. That'll be a little disconnect after we
- 31:49Speaker 2: you know, we went basically two months, you know, just
- 31:51Speaker 2: grinding to open up the new location for the pet sitting,
- 31:54Speaker 2: so so yeah, and hopefully that'll be a little break
- 31:58Speaker 2: of you know, spending time with the kids and that
- 32:02Speaker 2: kind of thing.
- 32:03Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah, those pictures are gonna be great.
- 32:07Speaker 5: Now.
- 32:07Speaker 1: If anybody wanted to find out more about y'all, obviously
- 32:09Speaker 1: see you guys in person, follow you online, support you
- 32:12Speaker 1: in any way how can they.
- 32:13Speaker 5: Do so so they can follow us at Lucky Buddies
- 32:21Speaker 5: one for our pet sitting business, or at Lucky Truck
- 32:27Speaker 5: and Coffee for our coffee. And we on our personal
- 32:32Speaker 5: pages as well. There I believe you's is public too.
- 32:35Speaker 5: We literally post a lot and we're yeah, we're definitely
- 32:41Speaker 5: reachable through Instagram for sure.
- 32:46Speaker 1: We love that. Well, thank y'all so much for being here,
- 32:48Speaker 1: and I love what you guys are doing, and I
- 32:49Speaker 1: can't wait to see you know, you guys are still
- 32:51Speaker 1: early in the coffee making career, but you know, you're
- 32:53Speaker 1: doing absolutely amazing things when it comes to Lucky Buddies,
- 32:55Speaker 1: So I can't wait to see where the future holds
- 32:57Speaker 1: for you.
- 32:58Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Thank you.
- 33:12Speaker 1: So much to Alex and Yesca. Again. If you are
- 33:15Speaker 1: in the San Jose area, definitely check out Lucky Truck
- 33:17Speaker 1: and Coffee. They are doing absolutely awesome things. I can't
- 33:20Speaker 1: wait to see where they're going to be, not only
- 33:21Speaker 1: in a year, but five years from now. So uh,
- 33:23Speaker 1: definitely go check them out on social media, check see
- 33:25Speaker 1: where they're gonna be, and then definitely make sure to
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- 33:51Speaker 1: I think about it, So until next time, make sure
- 33:53Speaker 1: to enjoy life, drink local, and cheers.
- 34:08Speaker 2: Three two one