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

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – A area foods truck proprietor and chef is established to keep his small business likely soon after numerous hurdles.

Tyrone Bennett and his spouse started out their foodstuff truck just after he misplaced his job to COVID, which was the very first obstacle he had to overcome.

A 7 days after acquiring his business off the ground, a car or truck accident set portion of his small business on maintain.

“On March 30, we had been heading to a catering and foodstuff truck function in Palm Coastline and we had been about 5 to 6 minutes absent when we received strike from powering by a driver,” Bennett said. “The trailer jackknifed and jumped off the trailer. It slid about 100 toes down I-95. The driver that hit us flew and went into the bushes.”

Bennett explained he and his wife have been discouraged, but his small business is not the only point the crash influenced.

Immediately after Bennett lost his task to COVID, he commenced an organization identified as “We Feed St. Augustine.”

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“We give out fresh groceries. We give out cooked ready meals,” Bennett reported. “It was an strategy in a area for the duration of COVID, and it went from an strategy to a wholehearted 501c3 firm. It connects restaurants and food stuff market professionals to the neighborhood.”

The corporation has been feeding families by means of the pandemic, but since the crash, they have been put on pause owing to the truck currently being totaled.

Even though Bennett has to buy a new meals truck, he is not offering up on serving his community.

“Our hope is that we come back to the community,” Bennett mentioned. “The neighborhood has been pretty incredibly supportive. We appear again larger and far better and much better.”

Bennett said he and his spouse are setting up to relaunch at the St. Augustine Foods and Wine Festival and hope to be again up and jogging the initially week of May well.