

All of the company's utensils, napkins, and other items are compostable. The company's food trucks are decommissioned and retrofitted cargo vehicles that use recycled vegetable oil to help them run. He wishes "to shrink the ecological footprint of the food industry by making fresh, local, sustainable vegetarian food as common and convenient as the fare at Burger King or McDonald's". Muir, a distant cousin of naturalist John Muir, has cited environmental motivations as a driving force behind the company's creation. The company was founded by Ayr Muir, a graduate of MIT in Material Science and Harvard Business School MBA program. As of summer 2018, Clover Food Lab had some 400 employees operating in 12 restaurants across the greater Boston area. The company was founded in October 2008, by MIT material science graduate and Harvard MBA Ayr Muir, as one food truck serving the area around the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The company also offers meal delivery boxes and catering. The company serves a simple menu that changes daily and with the seasons based on what is available from local farmers and includes a large mix of organic ingredients. Clover Food Lab is a vegetarian fast food chain, founded in 2008 which operates food trucks and restaurants in Massachusetts, United States.
