014:30 AM
Before the city wakes up.
Flour clouds. Digital scale. A laminated recipe card taped to cold tile. The dough goes in the proofer at 4:45 — every batch the same, every pretzel different.
0210:15 AM
Wheels on pavement.
The brass cart rolls out. Canopy unfolds. The chalkboard menu goes up. By the time the first office worker smells it from half a block away, the first pretzel is already in the lye bath.
0312:00 PM
Hands reaching. Bags crinkling.
The line forms before the sign goes up. Paper bags. Mustard drizzling. Salt still catching light on the crust. Forty pretzels in forty minutes — nobody leaves without one.
046:00 PM
String lights. Linen napkins. A pretzel wall.
The cart cleans up well. Private events, rooftop weddings, corporate launches — Twist arrives polished, sets up in 30 minutes, and becomes the thing everyone talks about on the way home.