Dan Barletta is one of the founders and owners of the mobile cafe, The Jitter Bus.  Serving the New Haven community for almost 8 years now, the blacked out bus with artwork on it is a familiar site to locals.  An idea that came from witnessing a ice cream truck and a love for coffee, The Jitter Bus started out as a simple idea.  Through some hard work, perseverance, and learning some hard lessons, The Jitter Bus has become a staple downtown New Haven.

In this episode we talk about Dan's struggle with college and how a coffee shop on wheels gave him a purpose.  We discuss what it was like to bring the idea to fruition, how they survived the pandemic, and their future plans of expanding to a brick and mortar coffee shop.  We covered a lot in this episode but what I didn't mention was how good their dirty chai lattes are.  If you've never had coffee from The Jitter Bus, you need to go check them out!

Topics we cover:

• New Havens first mobile café
• From being fired at Starbucks to entrepreneurship
• Not feeling like college was the right fit
• Starting a business with your friends
• The first year of business
• Vending at farmers markets
• Unexpected challenge of exploding an expresso machine
• Thinking outside the bus to survive the pandemic

Connect with The Jitter Bus:

• The bus can be found on corner of Hillhouse Ave. and Grove St. in downtown New Haven M-F and the Wooster Sq. farmers markets Sat mornings
• Follow The Jitter Bus on IG
• thejitterbus.com
  
  

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