“Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.”
I don t usually associate the Grateful Dead with wooded neighborhoods, office parks and food trucks, but here we are.
The western reaches of the Austin area have never been known as a bastion for diners seeking exciting options.
But over the past year, serendipity stepped in to help make a small parking lot in the mostly residential Lost Creek neighborhood an unexpected food-lovers oasis.
Isaac Flores, who returned to Austin from New York City with his wife, Kelsey Sammataro Hutchins, in 2018, was looking for a home for Sammataro, the pizza concept he created with a few friends last year. His brother-in-law, Devon Hutchins, told Isaac and Kelsey about the lines his Woody’s Shave Ice trailer had inspired on a small pad off Lost Creek Boulevard last summer.
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FARMINGTON – Isaac Flores brainstormed ways to ensure southeast Farmington’s elderly population does not have to wait in the long lines outside grocery stores let alone leave their homes because the COVID-19 pandemic’s still here at the start of winter.
“It’s unfortunate to see elderly people waiting in line at the big stores,” The Family Market owner said. “We saw a need of finding a way to help them out.”
First, there’s curbside pickup services. Flores said customers would bring a list of items and call the store’s main phone number upon arrival, and employees would collect those items and bring them back out to customers’ vehicles.