Blue Plate: Social Hub Gone Takeout Business

When Jeff Trenam was a college student at Berkeley in the early nineties, he was studying botany and on the road to becoming a landscape architect. Yet, in the back of his mind, he felt the municipal work he was heading toward “seemed really soul-sucking.” “I was young and enthusiastic and dreamed of a little more self-expression,” Jeff said, “not just waiting for retirement…”