It’s a cold one out today, but don’t fret! There are ways you can still get your delicious burrito without having to wait in the rain! 🤩❤️

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It’s #NationalFitnessDay 🏃‍♀️🏃🏼 with that in mind. We wanted to mention why we’re proud that our food is as fresh as can be!

Earlier this week, I told you about our first outing. It was a crazy few days, exactly 11 years ago today (!! weird, just realised that), and we learnt so much during that market. Mainly about what's important to us, and that formed our values.☺️❤️

A key thing was that we wanted to be proud of the food we sold, and that it should make you feel good. After serving some ready made pork, salsa and rice, we decided to make everything ourselves using the best ingredients we could. We raced home that night and stayed up till 2am 😰making our own picante salsa (the recipe has barely changed), pulling pork, and I can't remember what else.

Since then we have always made everything ourselves, salsa's, mole sauce, meats etc. 🤤

You can also find nutritional information for all our food on our website✅😋

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Yesterday, for #nationalsuperheroday we asked you to vote for ingredients to make up our burrito 😍👇🏻👇🏻

Chicken Mole - Salsa Verde - Black Beans - Sour Cream 🤤🔥

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We’re nearly 11 years old!! And with it being #nationaltellastoryday we thought we would share ours!

We first began our journey 11 years ago, trading in our small trailer around the UK with the Continental Market. We learnt so much.

My favourite lesson? TAKE ACTION! Someone wise said there is power in action, and they were right. Before we started The Street Food Chef, I was very hesitant about stuff, and Rich will jump in with both feet. Along the way, we have found a happy medium, but I have to be honest, his way is better. On our first outing, the market people called us up two days before to say someone had dropped out and did we want to do it. I said no, we’re not ready. Rich said rubbish yes we are. So we did it.

We sold out every day. We didn’t make a penny. But we learnt loads. Our values of doing it properly, cooking everything from scratch using local ingredients and being proud of what we serve were cemented on that weekend. We learnt about pricing, how important customer feedback is, and all sorts of other things. I wouldn’t have learnt any of that staying at home writing a business plan!

Since then we’ve opened 4 shops, traded at events, closed 2 shops, made a bit of money, lost more money, borrowed money, paid it back, closed the unit, employed lots of staff, learnt to write a cash flow, learnt how to strap equipment into a van, how to know if rice is cooked just by looking at it, and rolled thousands of burritos 🌯.

Oh & now, like many others, we are trading our way through a pandemic. So we’ve learnt about delivery and collection and apps and taxis and tills and furlough and recovery grants and bounce back loans.

Phew!!

All the way through there are some truths; our food has always been the star of the show, and our customers, staff and suppliers are our greatest assets. We are SO GRATEFUL for all the people who have been involved over the years, from the business mentors, and accountant, and suppliers to the staff and customers.

I couldn’t put one thing as a ‘moral of the story’, because we are still learning.

So, it’s a massive THANK YOU to all of you, burrito eaters, rollers and believers! Here’s to the next 11 years 🥂🌯🙏😋😍❤️ @ Street Food Chef