Feast Streat TV: Recent Episodes
Feast Streat TV
With 17 years experience in running commercial catering businesses, Owner & Commercial Director of Feast Streat; Ryan Patrick talks all things street food, business and life alongside Bullingham Visual Media operator James Bullingham.
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In our first podcast of 2023, we speak with East Lothian based Street Food and events caterers Wee Green Events who specialise in supplying vintage vehicles that serve a wide range of your street food favourites. We go through their questions for Ryan about scaling their business, recruiting staff and venue management + much more!
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https://bullinghamcreative.com/ With this weekend's Christmas Victorian Street Food event at Bonded Warehouse, we thought it was well timed to deliver a How-To guide in setting up your own street food event. With 17 years of markets, street food events, restaurant ownership and nightclub/event space promotion under his belt, Ryan is particularly well-suited to teach this subject.
Brought to you by bullinghamcreative.com Episode 018 is all about what it's like to work for Feast Streat, our values and what we expect from our staff. We are recruiting a new Head Chef to join the team, so if you are one or know one that is deeply passionate about street food, menu development and creating food content, get in touch!
In the 11 years that Feast Streat have been trading at Stratford Waterside Market, a loud minority of Stratford business owners have levelled criticism at both the market and it's resident independent traders. We have never publicly responded to any of this, until now...
With Halloween and Bonfire Night finally over, this marks the approximate midway point between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice, and while these were important markers for our ancestors, they are equally as important for modern day street food traders hoping to make the most out of high footfall, high volume street food events and Christmas markets. These events generally carry a much higher risk as they will command a higher rent cost and sometimes an even shorter trading window, so having your processes and staffing ready to sell the highest volume of product possible, is absolutely vital to making a good profit to carry you through the quieter months of the early new year.
Cashflow is the achilles heel of any business, find out how Ryan maintains Feast Streat's working capital to continually grow the business.
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Street Food Live Expo Catch Up - Ryan & James catch up on Ryan's recent trip to The Excel in London to see Street Food Live, where he spent two days networking and talking to suppliers of Food, EPOS Systems, Card Readers and exciting new innovations for the food industry that could make street foodie's lives much easier and profits more healthy!
Lichfield based Caribbean street food traders, Karib Kitchen talk us through the effects of their military and retail backgrounds, their techniques on taking advantage of consumer psychology and their mission to bring truly authentic Caribbean food to the masses.
Impromptu work-life balance & mental health chat between Ryan & James. We nearly didn't record this, this episode is full of past and present issues that we are both going through and working on. Ryan opens up about his rise out of bankruptcy, rebuilding his life and the constant battle to maintain healthy relationships and habits, whilst also innovating and driving a business forward in a time of economic decline.
In this episode, we discuss a recent Birmingham Live article and the subsequent comments regarding food and drinks prices at Birmingham Pride 2022, in addition to the enormous cost rises for traders, the implications of Brexit and how businesses can tighten up their operations in the face of economic downturn.
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 Visual Media, Ryan & James talk Feast Streat's Origins, street food trends and the importance of branding and visual media.