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

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – A community food items truck proprietor and chef is established to keep his organization heading following many hurdles.

Tyrone Bennett and his wife started out their foodstuff truck immediately after he dropped his career to COVID, which was the very first impediment he had to conquer.

A 7 days soon after obtaining his business off the ground, a motor vehicle accident set aspect of his business on hold.

“On March 30, we had been heading to a catering and foods truck event in Palm Coastline and we have been about five to six minutes away when we bought hit from behind by a driver,” Bennett claimed. “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 said he and his spouse ended up discouraged, but his business is not the only detail the crash influenced.

Immediately after Bennett missing his task to COVID, he commenced an firm termed “We Feed St. Augustine.”

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“We give out clean groceries. We give out cooked organized foods,” Bennett mentioned. “It was an concept in a place all through COVID, and it went from an strategy to a wholehearted 501c3 firm. It connects dining establishments and meals business pros to the neighborhood.”

The firm has been feeding households as a result of the pandemic, but considering that the crash, they have been place on pause owing to the truck becoming totaled.

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

“Our hope is that we come back to the neighborhood,” Bennett mentioned. “The neighborhood has been quite extremely supportive. We occur back again more substantial and greater and much better.”

Bennett explained he and his spouse are organizing to relaunch at the St. Augustine Food and Wine Festival and hope to be back again up and managing the first week of May perhaps.