Finally our new or 3rd jiffy truck has arrived its now at the signage company www.poppysigns.co.uk being given its “clothing” yippee. We shall be, launching this truck into Preston and so are now looking to recruit new outside catering customers as well as corporate catering customers for this vehicle to service, besides the outside catering we shall be looking to provide a lunch time delivery service with the full range of sandwiches and savouries all freshly made of course.

This is a big step for us as we begin to expand outside our normal geographic area of Chorley, Preston is going to be challenge with lots of companies providing the outside catering services and sandwich  delivery.

We have lots of outside catering work on this weekend and the diary is looking good in the next few weeks with us catering for a Tennis Tournament, a conference in Blackpool as well as now recieving the specifictaions required for catering at Go Ape which we will be working on next week. All good stuff have a lovely bank holiday weekend….

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Today we delivered our pies for the British Pie Awards www.britishpieawards.co.uk its our first time so we will see how we do, Pete had to drive down to Melton Mowbray at 6am to get them to the judges before 10am. Apparently security was very tight with no one being allowed past a certain point and boxes to be labelled correctly etc.

As mentioned in a previous post we are sponsoring a Pie and Pint evening at Glovers Bar in Preston tomorrow which should be really good night www.downtownpreston.com this will be a good event for us to market our outside catering in Preston, Chorley and across Lancashire and Greater Manchester. We already cater for a number of clients in Preston but the addition of a 3rd vehicle now means we are able to provide a much better outside catering service in Preston on a daily basis. The 3rd truck will also allow us to focus much more on outside catering at events across Lancashire as a whole with both hot and cold food.

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Good news all round I think at the moment, obviously the governement has now been installed and regardless of political persausion having a govt right now is better than not so at least we can all get on with business and doing our bit to help the economy by expanding and bringing new jobs into the company and hence the local economy.

The BIG issue with our new truck has now been resloved and we expect delivery on Monday yippee so we can now start to build the presence of the business in Preston with lunchtime deliveries and Corporate Catering in Preston as well.

Eton Tri now 2 days away so am getting nervous now, in the meantime I was so impressed by the students who did the presentation on Chorley Cakes that I have sent them a copy of Pies and Prejudice each, given that four of them are from other European countries i thought it might help them understand where they are in the Great British regional cultural differences.

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