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

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – A regional food stuff truck owner and chef is established to maintain his small business heading immediately after various hurdles.

Tyrone Bennett and his wife started their foodstuff truck immediately after he shed his position to COVID, which was the to start with impediment he experienced to overcome.

A week right after acquiring his small business off the ground, a vehicle accident set element of his business on maintain.

“On March 30, we ended up heading to a catering and foods truck function in Palm Coastline and we were being about five to six minutes absent when we acquired hit from guiding by a driver,” Bennett claimed. “The trailer jackknifed and jumped off the trailer. It slid about 100 toes down I-95. The driver that strike us flew and went into the bushes.”

Bennett mentioned he and his spouse had been discouraged, but his small business is not the only point the crash afflicted.

Right after Bennett lost his work to COVID, he started an organization named “We Feed St. Augustine.”

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“We give out refreshing groceries. We give out cooked ready meals,” Bennett stated. “It was an idea in a room throughout COVID, and it went from an concept to a wholehearted 501c3 group. It connects dining establishments and foodstuff industry professionals to the local community.”

The group has been feeding family members through the pandemic, but due to the fact the crash, they have been place on pause due to the truck remaining totaled.

Even although Bennett has to purchase a new food items truck, he is not providing up on serving his community.

“Our hope is that we appear back again to the neighborhood,” Bennett stated. “The neighborhood has been extremely very supportive. We occur back more substantial and improved and more powerful.”

Bennett claimed he and his wife are organizing to relaunch at the St. Augustine Foodstuff and Wine Festival and hope to be back up and operating the very first week of Might.