HOUSTON — March 6, 2015 — I loved this lobster roll. Every element was spot on, from the buttered grilled hotdog bun to the pearly texture of the lobster, which managed to taste briny and sweet at once. For a high-volume purveyor, Cousins clearly was dealing in excellent quality shellfish, sensitively handled.
I’ll admit I was startled — and skeptical — when my colleague Syd Kearney blogged about the hours-long lines at the Cousins Maine Lobster food truck when it parked out at the Fulshear famers market on Valentine’s Day.
I mean, sure, nearly everyone loves lobster. And sure, some people had seen Maine-bred cousins Jim Tselikis and Sabin Lomac when they pitched their fledgling Los Angeles lobster roll business to the scary moguls who winnow out hopeful entrepreneurs on ABC’s “Shark Tank” show.
The pair scored $55,000 from real estate investor Barbara Corcoran, who now has a 15 percent stake in a rapidly-expanding company that has done $3.5 million in sales — and counting, with new trucks opening in cities around the country. She has called it the best investment she has made in the course of the show.
Still, that Houstonians would flock to a distant outpost like Fulshear to wait for a sandwich for two hours or more seemed more like a tulip mania, driven by the madness of crowds, than a product of sensible decision-making.
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