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Help Launch the Kasa Indian Truck in the Financial District!

Tim — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:40:59 +0000

Friends –

We’re within weeks of launching the Kasa Indian Truck in early July! Where will the truck be rolling to? That’s what we need your help on!

For our initial launch, we’ll be at various Off the Grid events. (Follow us @kasaindian for details!)

We’re also in the final stretch of trying to secure permits to serve our Kati Rolls and other delicious Indian street food at specific locations in the Financial District. We’re one of the first local businesses trying to get permitted through the new Food Truck legislation which was passed in SF earlier this year.

We have a public hearing on June 29 where supporters and opponents to our truck can make their case to the City. The City needs to know that people support us!

There are two ways you can help:

1) Send an email to the Dept of Public Works — if you work in the FiDi or visit there on occasion, please email the note at the bottom of this email to truck@kasaindian.com before June 27. Every email will help! Feel free to modify the note however you’d like and pass this along to friends.

2) Come to the hearing — the hearing is on June 29 at 9am at City Hall, Room 400. Having a large crowd of supporters present can’t hurt!

With your help, we’ll have have our Kati Roller rolling soon!

Much love from Tim, Anamika & Suresh

SAMPLE EMAIL — SEND TO TRUCK@KASAINDIAN.COM

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To: Mr. Edward D. Reiskin, Director, SF Dept of Public Works

Re: Support for the Kasa Indian Truck in the FiDi

Dear Mr. Reiskin,

I am writing to express my excitement and support for having Kasa’s truck near my building in the FiDi. Like other workers in San Francisco’s financial district, I eat out very frequently for lunch. The FiDi needs additional interesting, ethnic food options. Kasa’s truck will add diversity and balance to the existing food options in this area and will make the overall dining scene here more exciting.

Sincerely,

INSERT YOUR NAME

INSERT YOUR FIDI WORK ADDRESS IF APPLICABLE

Doubling Down With K2

Suresh — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:47:02 +0000

We were crazy enough to get into this restaurant business in the first place, and then held on for dear life as the economy went to hell. After a year and a half of the hardest and most fulfilling work of our lives, we’ve come to the realization that:

1) you have to sell a heck of a lot of $4.50 kati rolls to make a living for two families in San Francisco; and

2) it’s time to spread the gospel for simple, fresh homestyle Indian food to other parts of the City.

So…we’re doubling down and opening our second Kasa location (dubbed K2) in the Marina next month!

The space is at 3115 Fillmore Street (b/t Union & Lombard) and is a little bigger than K1. We’re converting the space from an old furniture store, so the permitting, design and construction process has been intense. (K2 “Coming Soon” sign)

We kept things really really simple at K1 with a handful of dishes and a clean aesthetic so that we could focus on making amazing food from scratch every day, and we plan to keep the Heart of Kasa the same at K2.

Of course, we have some twists that we’re adding this time around, most notably: late night weekend hours (open til 2am Thursday thru Saturdays) and pitchers of beer and Sangria, but mainly we don’t want to mess with a good thing.

So…tell your friends, help us spread the word, and as always let us know your comments and brilliant ideas.

Kati Roll Madness At the Asian American Film Festival

Anamika — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:19:07 +0000

Deepa Mehta? I’d never heard her name until Saturday night just gone (though I’d seen her controversial movies Water and Fire). I guess she may never know just how exhausted she got us all at Kasa.

Our naivety as first time restaurant owners shows up despite the leaps and bounds we’ve made learning the trade. The Asian American Film Festival (of which we were totally unaware) with Deepa Mehta’s new movie Heaven on Earth drew in crowds with lines out the door at Kasa. We were perfectly well staffed up for a normal Saturday night, but multiply that by 3 and craziness ensued. Our entire crew worked like super heroes, bringing out food, rolling Kati Rolls, washing silverware, bussing tables, taking deliveries and pouring out drinks all at the speed of lightening.

At one point our roti stock was totally depleted…it is hand made after all! The panic in all of us struck in. That’s when I started to make frantic calls to Tim and Suresh for HELP. I’m not sure what kind of crazy babysitting arrangements were made between them, but soon thereafter Tim swooped in to save the day. All in all, it was a lot of fun though, and the entire work crew bonded.

Needless to say we researched the festival and were well prepared for the Sunday night showing at the Castro of Shah Rukh Khan’s movie Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. Things were fast, furious, buzzing yet SMOOTH.

Lesson learned: know the events going on in the Castro really well. I’m Indian though…how did I not hear about these movies? I really want to watch the Deepa Mehta movie. Someday when I have a little time.

Anamika