by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 | Food Van Driving, Street Food, Street Food Theory
Every event is a little different, but most of the time they will be something like this. It starts the day before, with a deep clean of the van. Cleaning is a pretty big theme here, brace yourselves. Every surface inside the van has to be scrubbed, then antibacked,...
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 | Thursday, January 3, 2013 | Street Food, Street Food Theory
The Great British Toastie has seen us well through 2012, but this year, the third year of the Jabberwocky, we are considering refining our offering. There are a few reasons for this, all currently in a jumbled mess inside my head, so with the aid of tea, your good...
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...
by Flic Luxmoore | Thursday, August 23, 2012 | Street Food, Street Food Theory
We survived our first music festival last weekend, and came away from Summer Sundae bruised (I walked into the hand sink) and tired, but otherwise still standing. Despite what was arguably a terrible, terrible pitch we managed to scrape together a little profit, a...
by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, August 1, 2012 | Street Food, Street Food Theory
There are many things we still need to learn about street food, the idea being that each one will move us slightly closer to a business that is happy, prosperous and maintains a firm stance on the importance of tea. This weekend we were at Barefoot Festival in...