Salt & Straw

I have a few minutes while I wait for the bus to tell you all about my summer job!  Last weekish I accepted a position with Salt & Straw, a young but thriving Portland ice cream shop as a scooper at one of their suburban ice cream carts!

Salt & Straw started about four years ago with a food cart in northeast Portland and now has three shops here, one in LA, the Lake Oswego cart where I work, plus little stalls on a few of the corporate campuses and event centers in the area.  I don't know anything about profits, but the shops constantly have lines out the door!  The ice cream is incredible, and if you come visit we will go.  It's handmade here in Portland, uses Oregon ingredients or ingredients sourced by Oregon companies, has a 17% butterfat content (as high as you can go without being butter), and has all kinds of crazy flavors. My personal favorites are the olive oil and honey lavender flavors, but you really can't go wrong.  They also do monthly seasonal flavors where they get together with Portland chefs, schools, farmers, companies or whoever to come up with weird flavors (this month it's food cart inspired, so think poutine, kimchi, and Thai peanut butter sauce).

My job is just like it sounds - scoop ice cream and be crazy friendly.  Basically, it's like my other customer service jobs except no one has yelled at me!  There are only about seven of us working the cart, so I get quite a few hours and am getting to know my coworkers well.  It's really just a fun, chill way to spend my summer!

Hope you're having a great summer!