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

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – A nearby food items truck owner and chef is decided to hold his company heading after various hurdles.

Tyrone Bennett and his wife started their meals truck right after he shed his work to COVID, which was the very first impediment he had to overcome.

A 7 days right after obtaining his business enterprise off the floor, a car accident set section of his business enterprise on maintain.

“On March 30, we were heading to a catering and meals truck event in Palm Coastline and we have been about five to 6 minutes away when we obtained hit from guiding by a driver,” Bennett mentioned. “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 wife ended up discouraged, but his business enterprise is not the only detail the crash afflicted.

Immediately after Bennett misplaced his work to COVID, he commenced an firm referred to as “We Feed St. Augustine.”

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“We give out fresh groceries. We give out cooked geared up foods,” Bennett stated. “It was an idea in a home throughout COVID, and it went from an idea to a wholehearted 501c3 organization. It connects dining places and foodstuff marketplace industry experts to the local community.”

The group has been feeding families by the pandemic, but given that the crash, they have been place on pause thanks to the truck becoming totaled.

Even while Bennett has to obtain a new foods truck, he is not providing up on serving his local community.

“Our hope is that we occur again to the local community,” Bennett mentioned. “The local community has been really incredibly supportive. We come again even larger and better and stronger.”

Bennett said he and his wife are preparing to relaunch at the St. Augustine Food stuff and Wine Pageant and hope to be again up and working the first week of Could.