Feast Streat TV

Ahead of the 2022 UKRO Festival of Rescue, hosted by West Midlands Fire Service, we chat with Station Commander; Sacha Quinney & Strategic Enabler; Sam Burton about their experiences within the Fire Service, the catering needs and logistical challenges of feeding a busy station and providing optimum nutrition in major incidents. 

Param Kanabar, Founder and CEO of NoQ, a cutting edge hospitality management software business, tells us his story. Detailing his education in actuarial science, moving to New York to become a CFO and giving it all up to move back to London to launch his start-up tech company; NoQ. 

Following on from two years of working with Adventure Bike Rider Festival, ABR's very own Will Sandilands comes on the show to talk all things festival operation, with the unique challenges the festival and it's demographic present to the creators and to traders alike. This one is a must-listen for street foodies planning on working in the festival market. 

After a short break during our peak season, we return with an episode detailing the potential perils of poor internet on your till systems and serving VIP's at the SailGP. 

Trading blind is an extremely common practice for street food traders, especially those with less experience. Ryan talks about the dangers of this practice and how to properly cost any job to ensure profitability and prevent losses. Also incudes further update regards the fraud case and the potential of future work with a legal team to produce a "events trading agreement" that would hold organisers accountable to certain controllable variables that can hugely impact the profitability of street food traders of all kinds. 

Despite 17 years of experience in the catering and events industries, Ryan was recently stung by a fraudster to the tune of £1600. In this episode we detail the experience, how it happened and what other traders can do to make sure that it does not happen to them! This one is a must-listen for anyone in the industry. 

This week, Ryan & James chat with Adam Pattison, the first Feast Streat Partner. Growing up surrounded by cooking and cutting his teeth in the restaurant business as a teenager, following a covid-induced dip in sales in his previous street food endeavour, Adam connected with Ryan in 2020 and their business relationship flourished over the last two years. 

Ryan & James talk independent traders and the difficulties of operating at large scale shows, how Ryan's expertise and Feast Streat's logistical power and strong network allows for struggling independents to gain from it's knowledge and experience, in order to gain access to work that can seem impossible to obtain! 

In this episode, Ryan and James discuss the downfall of small towns, some ideas on how to tackle the issues local authorities and local retailers face, and disagree over the merit of university...

Presented to you by Bullingham Creative, Ryan & James talk Feast Streat's Origins, street food trends and the importance of branding and visual media.