Food truck owners put ‘Heart & Soul’ into cooking up solutions to business snags

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – A local foods truck proprietor and chef is decided to continue to keep his company heading immediately after a number of hurdles.

Tyrone Bennett and his spouse commenced their foodstuff truck after he lost his job to COVID, which was the first impediment he had to get over.

A 7 days immediately after getting his business off the floor, a automobile incident put section of his company on hold.

“On March 30, we ended up heading to a catering and foodstuff truck occasion in Palm Coastline and we have been about five to six minutes absent when we bought hit from powering by a driver,” Bennett reported. “The trailer jackknifed and jumped off the trailer. It slid about 100 feet down I-95. The driver that hit us flew and went into the bushes.”

Bennett mentioned he and his spouse ended up discouraged, but his business enterprise is not the only point the crash afflicted.

Right after Bennett lost his job to COVID, he began an corporation known as “We Feed St. Augustine.”

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“We give out contemporary groceries. We give out cooked ready meals,” Bennett reported. “It was an thought in a space during COVID, and it went from an concept to a wholehearted 501c3 group. It connects restaurants and food stuff industry industry experts to the community.”

The business has been feeding people by way of the pandemic, but considering that the crash, they have been set on pause owing to the truck becoming totaled.

Even even though Bennett has to purchase a new food truck, he is not offering up on serving his group.

“Our hope is that we appear back again to the local community,” Bennett claimed. “The community has been quite really supportive. We come again even larger and far better and much better.”

Bennett said he and his wife are setting up to relaunch at the St. Augustine Food and Wine Festival and hope to be again up and jogging the initial 7 days of Might.