Here’s what we’re looking for in an employee:

-Management/leadership experience (not required but strongly preferred): Every day is different at Doc’s, and while at times we all need to follow orders, we’re much more interested in people who can call audibles — quickly adapting their strategy in response to new challenges and changing conditions.

-Confident customer service: The basic skills at Doc’s are very trainable; more intrinsic is the ability to provide consistently excellent customer interactions. We need people who can easily chat up customers to form relationships and hype the business.

-Logistics: We’re looking for a full-time commitment to a semi-regular schedule. You can expect 35-40 hours a week with a mostly regular schedule that is subject to change as we pick up and drop gigs. Weekends are pretty imperative.

Interested? Send a resume or a note about yourself to docstruckjobs@gmail.com

The post Join the Doc’s Crew! appeared first on Doc's Of The Bay.

The Green Hollow pickle is not only the secret ingredient in the Doc’s Classic Burger, it is the primary component of the standard Doc’s employee diet. “Seriously, I eat probably 50 pickles per shift,” claims Justin Hedrick. “I bleed brine,” adds Eileen Persona. Doc’s has put these sumptuous salty cukes on each and every burger (special requests excepted, as well as those times when we forgot to order them… Our bad!) since we served our very first one in March of 2011 (happy birthday to us, by the way!). Since then we’ve gotten creative — breading and frying the pickles, serving them on the black bean burger, injecting the brine — but always while sticking with the same classic, thick-cut chip for our burger. They even have a special setting on their slicer just for us!

Green Hollow started almost simultaneously with Doc’s, and our businesses have grown side-by-side. Co-founded by a chef and a finance guy, it would seem that their pickle formula was not Green Hollow’s only recipe for success. We’re proud to serve their products and to call them our friends, and we’re always excited to try everything they come up with. Remember those red onion pickles? Man, those were good! Green Hollow also makes a variety of of chutneys that we are anxious to incorporate into future specials, and that you can try for yourself as well. Their products are available at Bi-Rite, and you can learn more on their website, greenhollowsf.com.

The best burger in the San Francisco Bay Area can’t skimp on the details — down to the pickle, Doc’s ingredients are the best around.

The post “Doc’s Would Be Nothing Without…” Part II: Green Hollow Preserves appeared first on Doc's Of The Bay.

Premium burgers start with premium ingredients, and whether you start from the top or the bottom, the first thing you’re going to run into when you’re sizing up the Doc’s Classic Burger is a big fluffy challah bun. Doc’s is proud to support Firebrand Artisan Breads — our neighbor in Emeryville and our favorite bakery anywhere — because the best burger in Oakland has to start with the best bun.

Each morning when we stop by to pick up our buns we walk through a normal-seeming if oddly flour-coated front office into the belly of the beast: in the center of a large, open back room, snarling like a fire-breathing dragon, stands a massive and imposing wood-fueled oven. Matt, the owner, plunges his oversized pizza paddle (HUGE! Like, fifteen feet long!) into its fiery depths like a sword into the heart of the monster, pulling from within all of the baked masterpieces we wish we had ordered for ourselves. Awe-sticken, we leave with several suspicious-looking unmarked brown paper bags full of “the goods.”*

While we tend to stick to the challah buns, of which we order nearly a thousand in a typical week, the folks at Firebrand churn out myriad products as diverse as they are delicious. Our favorites include the walnut wheat levain, the sour baguette, and those pretzels… My god, those pretzels… We’re always looking for new ways to incorporate Firebrand baked goods into our food (i.e. to pass off other people’s delicious creations as our own), and many of our new or hypothetical dishes are conceived around their specific products: beer sausage with sauerkraut and hop aioli on a Firebrand pretzel roll? What do you think?

*(Did you know? When the egg wash drips down the side of the challah bun, pooling on the floor of the oven and subsequently crisping up while still adhering to the side of the bread, that’s called a “bun omelette” in DocTalk, and it’s delicious.)

The post “Doc’s Would Be Nothing Without…” Part I: Firebrand Artisan Breads appeared first on Doc's Of The Bay.

The Beloved Fried Chicken Sandwich

What was once an elusive special at our food truck now graces the menu with its permanent presence. That’s right, you heard it here, folks: the fried chicken sandwich is here to stay. Currently the hippest food on the planet and especially in San Francisco and Oakland (see the latest issue of Bon Appetit magazine), the fried chicken sandwich fits perfectly into Doc’s repertoire of updated standards — cooler versions of our favorite comfort foods. It is as unpretentious as it is delicious, and it allows for a surprising amount of creativity.

Here at Doc’s we start with what has become the standard version of this contemporary classic — a fried boneless breast atop a jalapeño and green cabbage slaw — but from there we depart unto a sandwich all our own. It starts and ends with fennel: our slaw is riddled with shredded fennel bulb and dark fennel greens, those same greens find their way into our buttermilk dressing, and the breading with which we coat the chicken is laced with fennel seeds. The resulting aroma from our fryer has been detected as far away as Santa Barbara, and the sandwich itself takes on a delicious and subtle toasted licorice flavor. At once robust and reserved, this sandwich is the bomb if you love fennel, but still fantastic even if you’re not a diehard. Don’t worry — we stopped short of adding Jagermeister to the slaw, though we did think about it. Seriously.

-Kris

The post The Mighty Mighty Fried Chicken Sandwich appeared first on Doc's Of The Bay.

Be an Office Hero!

Treat an unlimited number of your co-workers to 25% a meal at Doc’s (and take 50-100% for yourself too).

Just tell us where to expect you in the form below.

Fill out my online form.

The post appeared first on Doc's Of The Bay.

We’d love to cater your Super Bowl party! Okay, so we won’t bring the food truck, but we will provide you with (deconstructed) sliders and snacks, so you can watch the game. Probably would be best if you’re hosting a mid- to large-sized party. In some cases we will deliver. Please inquire through the contact form on the left for more information, menu, and pricing.

The post Let Doc’s Cater Your Super Bowl Party appeared first on Doc's Of The Bay.

An update on an American standard—the neighborhood burger shack.

The shack of yesteryear provided its patrons with a place to sit on a stool and waft in the billowing scents of frying onions, ground beef, and cheese, which, when combined, always made you feel good. We at Doc’s have made four innovations to freshen this indispensable experience and let it sit well with the contemporary conscience:

• An enlarged menu that takes in the range of American comfort foods;

• A commitment to locally-focused sourcing that takes advantage of the best local vendors and seasonal California produce;

• A dedication to house-made whole foods, right down to our Original Recipe Red Bell Ketchup;

• Wheels.

Our purpose at Doc’s is to enrich the local community through comfort food: to give you a product and service that brightens your day, and to do it in a way that is both conscientious and fun. We think it is a considerable thing to strive toward, and we hope you do too.

More About Doc’s:

Doc’s Story     Our Suppliers     F.A.Q. Doc’s People     Testimonials

The post Doc’s of the Bay appeared first on Doc's Of The Bay.

Great news North Oakland! Doc’s will be selling our wares on the corner of Claremont and Telegraph every Wednesday night 6-10pm from now on, courtesy of our favorite neighborhood spot the Kingfish bar. Stop by and say hello!

The post Kingfish Wednesdays! appeared first on Doc's Of The Bay.

The post Snow Park Pod, Oakland appeared first on Doc's Of The Bay.

“Tops among food-truck burgers, in our opinion, is Docs of the Bay.” -Grub Street

“[The Doc's Classic Burger is] a standard not many sandwich could meet.” -John Birdsall, East Bay Express

“I highly recommend Doc’s of the Bay.  If you hear that they are in the area, GO!  Do not hesitate. Their cuisine is artful and wonderful.  My umami buds go nuts every time I think of their burgers.” -Brandon, on Yelp, 5/24/12

“Their black bean burger rocks. They make it  with such care and with the freshest and the healthiest ingredients possible.” – Priyanka T., on Yelp, 2/29/12

“Everything a food truck should stand for–great ingredients, smart focused menu, tasty food and GREAT SERVICE!” -Alicia V., on Yelp, 1/24/12

More About Doc’s:

Doc’s Story     Our Suppliers     F.A.Q.

Doc’s People     About Doc’s

The post Testimonials! appeared first on Doc's Of The Bay.