The Thyme Machine | Zaatar Truck

Rachid Akiki, MD, MBA
5 min readOct 6, 2021

I have always been amazed by Food Trucks. A truck is made to move people or things from point A to point B, so everytime I see a truck producing food, I think, Woah, this is magical. Just like a child, I get excited and remember my childhood in Beirut and Bkaatouta in my home country of Lebanon. A white and blue ice cream truck would pass by my grandmother’s house to sell bread, ice cream, and cotton candy. I would hear the tune of the truck from miles away, and instantly, my salivary glands would go in overdrive. That’s the Pavlov effect! I would rush to my grandmother, Marie, to ask her for some…

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Rachid Akiki, MD, MBA

Decentralizing healthcare 🚀 Medical Doctor turned Serial Entrepreneur. Boston & Miami-based. Studied physics, medicine, radiology, & business. Always Learning