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

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – A area food truck owner and chef is determined to continue to keep his business heading just after many hurdles.

Tyrone Bennett and his wife started out their food truck following he missing his task to COVID, which was the initial impediment he experienced to conquer.

A 7 days immediately after obtaining his business enterprise off the ground, a motor vehicle incident put part of his organization on hold.

“On March 30, we had been heading to a catering and food truck event in Palm Coast and we were about 5 to six minutes absent when we acquired strike from behind by a driver,” Bennett stated. “The trailer jackknifed and jumped off the trailer. It slid about 100 feet down I-95. The driver that strike us flew and went into the bushes.”

Bennett stated he and his spouse were being discouraged, but his enterprise is not the only matter the crash influenced.

Just after Bennett shed his task to COVID, he began an firm termed “We Feed St. Augustine.”

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“We give out new groceries. We give out cooked geared up foods,” Bennett mentioned. “It was an thought in a home all through COVID, and it went from an idea to a wholehearted 501c3 firm. It connects dining places and foodstuff field specialists to the local community.”

The business has been feeding family members as a result of the pandemic, but given that the crash, they have been put on pause due to the truck being totaled.

Even though Bennett has to acquire a new food stuff truck, he is not offering up on serving his local community.

“Our hope is that we occur back to the group,” Bennett reported. “The local community has been extremely really supportive. We arrive back even larger and far better and stronger.”

Bennett explained he and his spouse are preparing to relaunch at the St. Augustine Food and Wine Pageant and hope to be back up and functioning the 1st week of Could.