Flic Luxmoore

Tendering For A Pitch

by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, August 14, 2013 | Street Food, Street Food Theory, The Business of Catering

The process of tendering. I have to admit I’m not a fan, even though it works in our favour some of the time. The organiser gives asks you to tender an amount that you would like to pay to serve at an event, collects these together and then uses their magic...

The Portion Equation – How Many Portions Do I Take

by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, August 7, 2013 | Street Food, Street Food Theory

Knowing how many portions, or units, to take to an event is probably one of the hardest things to learn in street food. As with all catering you need to balance your sales with your wastage, but unlike most catering, stock often can’t be rolled over to the next...

Global Gathering Food Guide

by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, July 31, 2013 | Street Food, The Business of Catering

This weekend was Global Gathering. At 50,000 visitors officially our biggest festival so far. There are road closures, the traffic grinds to a standstill all around it. Stepping through the gates you enter a bubble of dance music (with your hands in the air like...

Reenactment Trading

by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, July 24, 2013 | Street Food

Last weekend we tried a new type of event: The Historical Reenactment. A field, a weekend and two thousand years of history, fought out before your eyes. I our case fought out just around the corner in the main arena, where we couldn’t quite see. Luckily the...

The Lake District

by Flic Luxmoore | Tuesday, July 16, 2013 | Other...

Last week there was an unaccounted for silence on the usually clockwork blog post front. This was due to the fact that finally, after a solid month of work and quitting the real job entirely, we got ourselves a little holiday. We managed to squeeze it in between...