ANN ARBOR, MI — With 10 a long time of serving up veggie burgers and soy-dependent shakes less than her belt, Debra Levantrosser is all set to go on to even larger and improved factors.
Levantrosser owns Shimmy Shack, a vegan and gluten-no cost foodstuff truck serving the Ann Arbor and Detroit spots, and a short while ago set out a simply call for prospective buyers for the small business.
“I truly feel that for the final 10 decades, I’ve been transforming the way individuals take in, and I experience that it’s time for me to move on and modify the way individuals imagine,” Levantrosser mentioned.
Levantrosser is asking for at minimum $275,000 for Shimmy Shack’s truck, branding and recipes. The sale does not include things like Shimmy’s Cabinet, a food stuff pantry serving vegan and gluten-cost-free food. The purchaser will, nonetheless, inherit the truck’s current routine, which involves bookings for Art in the Park in downtown Plymouth and Ann Arbor’s Sonic Lunch.
“The wheels are turning, pretty much and figuratively,” Levantrosser explained.
Shimmy Shack serves a wide variety of vegan and gluten-free of charge foods, including a soy-dependent coney canine, a falafel pita, nachos and cookies. While the truck is based in Plymouth, it serves the Ann Arbor and Detroit parts, which include appearances at Ann Arbor’s Sonic Lunch and Wiard’s Orchard in Ypsilanti.
The truck has sold much more than 60,000 of its unique recipe veggie burgers and was voted into the top 10 food items vehicles in the region in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2021.
An great consumer would have a enthusiasm for gluten-free and vegan food stuff, Levantrosser reported.
“I feel the new proprietor is inside my community currently someplace mainly because of the degree of enthusiasm you have to have in buy to place yourself out there and individual a business like this,” Levantrosser stated.
Although she said she will overlook interacting with consumers, she feels a “really powerful calling to go into the training and awareness space,” Levantrosser reported. She needs to focus on teams that do not normally have entry to training on veganism or would not usually consider about the origin of food, with a certain emphasis on how the agricultural field treats animals.
“I don’t think individuals actually recognize how we get milk,” Levantrosser explained.
There are at the moment no programs to near the truck if a purchaser does not show up, Levantrosser extra.
“The future is for sure much more vegan than it is now,” she explained.
Find Shimmy Shack on the internet, on social media or by cellphone at 734-228-5990.
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