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Colonial Café Truck Has Everything — and the Kitchen Sink

The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile it is not, but Colonial Café's Kitchen Sink truck stands out all the same.

Tomas Morales is one of the folks who drive ’s Kitchen Sink truck that can be seen on the roads from Naperville to St. Charles to Algonquin and Crystal Lake every day.

Morales is one of three drivers behind the wheel of the new mobile billboard. commissioned the 600-pound fiberglass sculpture that looks like its signature Kitchen Sink dessert, which includes six scoops of ice cream, strawberries, banana and other goodies. The dessert is served in an actual kitchen sink, thus the name.

“Everybody wants to take a picture,” Morales said, of the reaction he gets as his drives along the roads and stops at malls up and down Randall Road and the region.

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The kitchen sink sculpture is attached to a platform secured on a white pickup truck with decals on it, including the words “Follow me to Colonial Café.”

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