Being a brand ambassador on The Loaf Love Tour is kind of like a grilled cheese sandwich… it sounds amazing, but getting the cheese to melt perfectly without burning the bread is not an easy task. With a forever-changing call time, chaotic traffic, and unpredictable weather the team always has to be prepared for changes! Fun, hectic, animated, amusing, are just a few words that come to mind when describing what it’s like behind the scenes, but they still don’t suffice. Check out all these photos from behind the scenes.

We like to keep our YUM buses nice and shiny! Being cheesy at the car wash

Car wash is all done, so we decided to take a photo. Aren’t they shiny?!

Cubing these tasty loafs for our event days, we call this a Cubing Party!

We always have fun at work, but even when we’re off the clock we stick together and stay cheesy!

 Post by Elida

By Tillamook

Being a Tillamook Cheese Brand Ambassador on the Loaf Love Tour is one exciting job! We are a team of 6 unique individuals sharing our love for the Tillamook brand to the people. We are on the road traveling city to city for several months, creating lifelong cheesy memories, meeting and creating Tillafans. What’s there not to love about it?

The best part of our job is driving to and from events. It’s awesome to drive these fun little VW Yum buses. We love to see the smiles, laughs, thumbs up and waves! If you stop by for an event we’d love to take a picture of you next to one!

Cleaning the Yum buses and maintenance is crucial to keeping them in great condition. We take great pride in the Yum buses as they are unique and so nicely detailed. We clean them often and Ray does weekly maintenance to make sure they are in tip top shape! Look at him cheesn’!

I like to clean too! :)

A lot of prep work goes into each day of our events.  We cube our Medium Cheddar, Monterey Jack, and Pepper Jack cheeses so that we’re able to share our love of cheese in cute tiny cubes! It’s one of my favorite activities because we have so much fun listening to music and catching up while we’re cubing! We call this a cubing party!

Setting up at the stores can be a challenge. Taking all of the materials out of the YUM for the event and carefully putting the kiosk together takes time and care because we want to look our best for our Tillafans! It is a really great display when we have the Tillamook banner up, cheese trays out, and tooth picks in place! Our events are the best!

We are excited to share our love of cheese and hope to make it a memorable event! We do that by giving away Smile Sticks & Buttons. Taking pictures next to the YUM bus and enjoying cheese samples are all part of the experience! Mary is one of our Tillafan’s from California and has been following the Loaf Love Tour online. She took the time to see all of us Brand Ambassadors while in San Francisco. It’s always nice to see our Tillafans and share our Tillamook excitement! Hope to see you on the road!

Post by DeeDee

By Tillamook

A Baby Loaf Bus hanging out in a vineyard in Northern California. Wine + Cheese = the perfect combo!

I love to take photos of all the cool things and places I visit on the road for the Loaf Love Tour! I try to capture fun pics of what I am seeing, doing, and eating in between all the Tillamook cheesiness! My favorite way to share and edit them is through Instagram! It’s super easy and fun. Adding Instagram filters or cute borders enhances the hundreds of smartphone photos I am snapping everyday all over the place! It’s also a great way for me to see interesting photos from all over the world! I like to follow my friends, some of my favorite celebrities, and brands that I adore so, of course, I follow Tillamook on Instagram! It’s a fun way to always get a little extra Tillamook goodness in my feed because, you know, I’m always a fan of a little more cheese in my life! Since I am a huge VW fan my most favorite Tillamook Instagram photos are of our Baby Loaf VW buses in beautiful scenic locations! Tillamook’s Insta photos always put a little smile on my face!

If you are an Instagram user and a Tillamook fan, be sure to add @Tillamook to your Instagram feed!

Snappin’ pics all over,
Noelle

By NoelleLLT

It is no secret that the love of the road has been part of the American experience for years. For many it has been engrained in our consciousness since childhood. “Hit The Road Jack,” “Route 66,” “On The Road Again,” “Drive My Car,” are just a few of the many songs that have filled our heads with the love of the road. Heck even just yelling “Road Trip!” incites a knee-jerk reaction to get ready and “hit the gas.”

The road represents adventure, fun, and new experiences. And it’s Albertsons Market digital team’s love of fun and new experiences that makes us a huge fan of the Tillamook Loaf Love Tour. What’s not to like? An array of tasty cheese, chopped cheddar colored VW vans (my personal fav!), and a road trip that takes their adventurous team of Brand Ambassadors across the nation spreading their love of delicious Tillamook Cheese. It is a highly personal tour that is not only creative but fun as well. If you haven’t met up with the tour yet you should make it a point to do so. The samples and savings on Tillamook products are awesome!

It’s in the same spirit of the Loaf Love Tour that Albertsons Market launched the “Best Road Trip. Ever!” promotion. It is a digital road trip that is created through the creative stories of our customers as they describe their favorite trips of all time in an effort to win a new Ford car. Customers can enter stories, pictures and videos to add miles to the “journey.” We love customer stories at Albertsons Market so we decided to make the car prize get better as we get more entries. The more people that enter, the more miles are added to “the road trip” and the better the car prize gets.  We’ve already gone from a Ford Fiesta to a Mustang!

The road has a special place in the hearts of many. I’m sure our friends at Tillamook would agree as they cruise across the States spreading the love of cheese. At Albertsons Market we are trying to get you to the Loaf Love Tour in a sweet new car. Don’t forget to enter the “Best Road Trip. Ever!” promotion by August 31, 2012! Vroom, vroom!

By Matt

Learn how our cute VW Baby Loaf buses make their way around the country! And don’t forget to follow me, Jammin’ Jason on Twitter!

By JasonLLT

Soaking up the sun in SoCal.

We call our awesome little VW Baby Loaf buses ”Yums” and our fleet now has 5 Yums, including the Loafster convertible. I personally have the Tillamook Baby Loaf Yums to thank for making me feel like a star while in the Los Angeles area. For a metropolis that has undeniably seen every form of fashion, cars, homes, and celebrities, I continue to be shocked by people’s surprised reaction to little `ol me driving down the street in a Tillamook Baby Loaf on wheels.

As a Tillamook Cheese Loaf Love Tour Brand Ambassador, your daily commute to work is unlike any other. For starters, I drive a custom VW that is almost twice my age, the exterior of the vehicle resembles a baby loaf of cheese, and it proudly has Tillamook written all over it. Trust me, there is no driving unnoticed. Often I feel like I’m in a parade with all the waves, smiles, and thumbs-ups I give to total strangers along the road (just wish I had a crown to wear!).

Driving the Loafster convertible!

There are certain occurrences one must be prepared to encounter when driving one of the five Tillamook Yums. Such as: People honking excitedly at you, people screaming and shouting, photos and video being taken of you, being followed or waved down, having 30 second conversations with the car next to you at a red light, or watching people slug their friend in the arm to get them to check us out!

Nothing beats the feeling of when the Loaf Love Tour teamdrives the Yums down Hollywood Blvd, Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica Blvd, or Rodeo Drive. The people along the streets look at us with such sincere smiles that we naturally give them a cheesy smile right back! The Tillamook Baby Loaf Yums help the Loaf Love Tour bring our tasty cheese to the people everyday and I feel honored to drive them!

See you on the road!

-Jenn, Loaf Love Tour Brand Ambassador

By Jenn

Meet Brian Russell, a Volkswagen aficionado, as he shares some insider knowledge about how the Loaf Love Tour Baby Loaf buses (including our new Loafster!) were made.

By Matt

By JasonLLT

When I started as a Brand Ambassador on the Loaf Love Tour, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I knew I loved Tillamook Cheese and I hoped to meet some people that I could introduce our cheese to for the very first time. Little did I know, I would meet people who loved our cheese so much that they would want it to be part of their wedding day!

I met Super Fans Lisa and her soon-to-be husband Joe at Fry’s in Tempe, Arizona. They were extremely excited to see Yum 2 – our super cool Baby Loaf VW Bus! Lisa is a photographer and was especially thrilled to take pictures and videos with Yum 2 to show how much she loves Tillamook. In fact, when we told Lisa and Joe about our new Loafster convertible, the soon-to-be newlyweds were so excited to see it in person, they invited us to drive it to their wedding! So Loafy hopped in the Loafster and headed out to join them on their special day; and Loafy did just that, joined them … in holy matrimony that is.

See you on the road!

- Jason, Loaf Love Tour Ambassador

By JasonLLT