Tendering For A Pitch
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 powers of...
The Portion Equation – How Many Portions Do I Take
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 day....
Global Gathering Food Guide
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
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 access to...
The Lake District
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...
Making Money From Street Food
On Monday I had my final day of real work. I washed out my mug, sat through the uncomfortable if well-meant goodbye cake and went to the pub afterwards to demolish the three drinks required to make me verbose and smiley. The following day was then my first day off...
The Troubles of the Business Blog
There is a blog post I cannot write. So without writing it, I thought I’d explain why, because that’s the reasoning behind keeping this project: to talk about everything. The Jabberwocky Soliloquy has always floated along the line between the diary aspects of a...
Food Festival Work
I sat down just a moment ago to check something before starting the blog, and seem to have lost a few hours. Recently, specifically since the BBC Good Food Show, this has been happening more. You stare idly at a fixed point in the middle distance, brain cruising on...
BBC Good Food Show 2013 Preparations
Tomorrow is the first day of the biggest event of the year; the BBC Good Food Show 2013 at the NEC in Birmingham. We won the pitch after a fortuitous series of events involving nominations and voting earlier in the year and have since discovered, by way of an invoice,...
Important Observation Of The Week – Burgers
The last week has seen us single-handedly cover almost all the street food bases, and at any rate do justice to my personal top three: The market (Warwick Uni, Brindley Place), the collective (Digbeth Dining Club) and the festival (Vale Fest). We were able to road...
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