The path COVID19 led us down

This year would have been the real kickstart of Grate Catering. We had weddings booked and festivals planned. We were busy promoting our outdoor catering services and then it happened, the lockdown. We gradually watched our weddings cancel as well as the festivals we were going to be cooking at. The worry was that the attention we did start to gain for our business would be lost as we couldn’t operate with all of the restrictions in place meaning we would have to start all over again whenever we could start working as normal again.

In the beginning we just felt completely deflated and had no drive to do anything, but we just wanted to get back into the kitchen and reconnect with people through our cooking. 

By now there were already lots of people offering home delivery services of a whole range of different types of food and we were worried that whatever we offered would be lost in what was turning into a busy market. 

But we had a look through our fire pit festival menus to see if we could adapt anything for home delivery while sticking to our core values of using high welfare local meat all with a fiery twist, and this is how we ended up doing our re-heat at home taco kits.  

We realised that we wouldn’t be able to do any large events this year and we really enjoyed working on our taco kits so we looked into vending at Outside-in Food Court in Portsmouth. Here we have our own kitchen and a regular crowd of people hungry for tasty street styled food. Again, we’ve also stuck to our core values of high welfare meat all cooked over live fire. We plan to stay here now for the rest of the year at least and see where it will take us. 

We’ve also started work on a range of sauces, pickles and BBQ rubs that we use in our cooking and also plan to sell retail so watch this space.