by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 | The Business of Catering
Today, on this most gorgeously drizzly day, I turn an entire year older. To celebrate we went to visit Warwick University and trade on the Piazza near the Union. As we have always suspected students have a strange affinity for toasties, and they left us with a...
by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 | Street Food, Street Food Theory, The Business of Catering
Today we were at the Farmer’s Market in New Street again, watching the rain and serving a sudden rush of lamb toasties. It led to some thinking, some tea and a hypothesis. Our best selling toastie is the ham and cheese. When we first started toasting it...
by Flic Luxmoore | Sunday, April 28, 2013 | The Business of Catering
Things have been crazy over the last week. To say the phone has been ringing off the hook would be inaccurate, what with it being a mobile, but there has been a lot going on. So much so that this week’s post is about me extracting myself from the Jabberwocky...
by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, February 27, 2013 | Food Van Driving, The Business of Catering
This Friday we will be heading back to Digbeth Dining Club, first of the New Year, finest street food in Birmingham and all round happy place. But. Last week I was hopeful, and panic-buying teapots more to calm the nerves than because I actually believed the Beast...
by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 | The Business of Catering
Some weeks I have lots to write about, and the blog post is written in a moment. Those ones require the most editing, because in my joyful outpouring of whatever junk was cluttering the archives of my mind there is usually a fair bit of drivel. Other weeks it feels...
by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, November 7, 2012 | Street Food Theory, The Business of Catering
Back when the Beast had only just hatched, in the days when the Wocky was young and first peered out into the big wide world, we wondered idly if we would have enough time to get everything done. I used to work a 9-5 rat-race type job at a big company. Each day I...