by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, March 19, 2014 | Food Van Driving, Street Food Theory
In street food there are two main types of setup, the kind with wheels and engines and the kind without. Vans give you space and time, gazebos are cheaper and more reliable. My humble and totally unbiased opinion: Vans are better than gazebos. It’s not all...
by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, March 5, 2014 | Food Van Driving, Street Food Theory
Currently, as those of you kind enough to follow us on other social channels will know, the van is once more in the garage. He failed his MOT in two-sheets-of-refusal-notice style. Luckily most of the problems are to do with his wiring, and consequently we expect him...
by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, February 26, 2014 | Street Food, Street Food Theory
It’s festival application season again. This special time of year is when street food vendors all across the country sit around the computer and write letters to their favourite venues, in the hope that perhaps, if they are very lucky, they will be offered a...
by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, February 19, 2014 | Street Food, Street Food Theory, The Business of Catering
For the last few weeks I have been working through applications to join our collective, Scoff. One of he questions we ask in the application form is “Why did you get into street food?”. There isn’t a right answer, but we were curious to see what...
by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, December 4, 2013 | Other..., Street Food, Street Food Theory
There are conventions in customer psychology that are unspoken but carefully observed, like a code of conduct for street trading which we have noticed sits just below the surface. Once noticed it seems to be everywhere, or perhaps it’s just me. The Invisibility...
by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, November 6, 2013 | Street Food, Street Food Theory
Based on the title you probably have some expectations here, so let me address that: You are better off trading at events than just pitching up in a lay-by. Street food, despite the name, is not especially common randomly by the side of the road. It’s something...