Category: Food Trucks

Catering, Equipment, Event Planning, Food Trucks, Fun Story

Event Street Food Truck Hire Yorkshire

10 November 2024
Seared Branded Food Truck
Fire Truck Food Truck hire
Fire Truck Food Truck hire

Our street food trucks are based in the Yorkshire region, so are perfect for your festival, wedding or corporate event in the Yorkshire region.

Range Of Street Food Options

We have a huge range of catering options, which can be mixed and matched for your event.

Yorkshire Street Food

Make your event one to remember with one of our quirky street food trucks, from a full sized US fire truck, to a vintage Citroen HY Van.

Corporate Food Van Hire For Yorkshire

Whether you are looking for a treat for your staff, or a branded food truck for an exhibition, we can work with you to provide a custom package, including branding options and a custom menu of high quality tasty food.

Festival Food Van Hire Yorkshire

We provide catering option from a single van to multiple van and cart options. From a small family event with 50 people, to a major festival feeding thousands we can design and provide you with a comprehensive food package.

Wedding And Party Food Truck Hire Yorkshire

Do you fancy something different for you wedding breakfast. Street food trucks are the way to go. We can work with you to provide a fun catering option that looks as good as it tastes. From a main course to a dessert we have something your guests will love.

CONTACT US FOR YOUR FOD TRUCK OPTIONS

Email info@crazyandco.uk

Tel: 07973429663

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Get in touch to discuss your options and ideas.

Food Truck Hire Yorkshire. We offer a range of food trucks and carts in the Yorkshire region including Wakefield, Doncaster, York, Sheffield, Leeds, Bradford. With options including fish and chips, pizza, noodles, gourmet burgers, dirty fries, German sausage, churros, waffles, doughnuts and more.

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Fire Truck Food Truck

1 October 2024
Evansville Fire Department

We have spent the last 12 months or so working on converting our US Spartan firetruck into a street food unit. We are getting near to launch date and hope to have some exciting news shortly.

We like to thoroughly go through anything we acquire, and this has been no different. Having refurbed it mechanically, cleaned, polished and painted the engine, had a full service and added multiple food unit systems, we finally turned our attention to the cab area. As this is where i will be spending a large amount of time during the transport phase (we are driving it to events rather than trailering it), I decided that I would like it to be a little less utilitarian, and have some comforts such as cooling fans, good music, nicer upholstery etc. Oh and some drivers aid system wouldn’t go amiss such as help reversing etc. Our fire truck food truck is going to be one fabulous piece of kit.

Nicer Upholstery

I’ve always liked the diamond style stitching found on certain high end automobiles. To this end we had the roof and drivers seat recovered in black with red piping and red stitched diamonds. The dash and door panels have also been re trimmed but without the padded diamonds.

High End Music And Navigation

We started off with the installation of an Alpine Halo 11 inch media receiver. This takes care of the music playing, and adds Android auto to allow for satellite navigation. It also has the added bonus of connecting to our Amazon fire stuck, allowing movies to be played to ease our way through those long waits for site access etc.

Audison Audio tweeters mounted in the A pillars, and 4 Audison full range speakers mounted in the roof corners added a fabulous sound. Backed up by a large subwoofer mounted under the dash in a custom built diamond plate covered enclosure. Overall the cab is a much more pleasant environment with good music.

Drivers Aids

Being as big as it is, with poor visibility, left hand drive and a long front overhang, it was felt that anything to assist the driver was a worthwhile endeavour.

The first option we added was a 360 degree camera system. This filmed all around the truck, recording to an SSD. The system is quite clever in that putting the gearbox into reverse switches to an enlarged rear view. Similarly indicating either side switches to a side view. The Alpine music system is also connected to a low level reversing camera with a hitch guide, this similarly switches to a rear display on reverse.

A radar operated blind spot system was added that flashes a small but highly visible light in the A pillars when anything is overtaking either side. If you indicate to swap lanes and something is detected in overtaking it also pulses an alarm.

A Tyre Pal TPMS system takes care of tyre pressures and temps, handy considering fire trucks don’t come equipped with spare wheel carriers.

If we can find a reversing sensor system that integrates with the Alpine screen (they usually need CAN Bus systems which 1992 motors tend not to have), then we will look at adding that.

A pair of front mounted bumper poles help judge where the huge front bumper is sticking out to, and electronic tannoys that announce “This vehicle is reversing/Turning Left/ Turning Right” complete our current safety systems. The updated London regs require a front moving off alarm, so we might look at adding that at some point, even though we are exempt from the London regs.

As well as our fire truck food truck we have a range of classic and quirky vehicles for hire, from a Del Boy Trotter 3 wheel van coffee service to a classic Citroen HY churros unit.

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Fire Truck Food Truck Nearly Ready

2 July 2024
John W Sanders II Fire Truck

Its been a long project. Longer than our usual food truck builds, but hey, its a lot bigger than our usual food trucks.

Our ex USA fire truck is almost ready for launch. We are trying it out at one of our regular jobs soon, and then might have some exciting news about a possible tour in conjunction with a quirky restaurant chain.

In the meantime, here are some images of our truck in its former life as an actual fire fighting appliance for the Evansville Fire Department, Indiana USA.

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New Equipment, Our Churros Box

30 December 2023
Churros Box At Night

As part of our ongoing efforts to expand our services, especially for larger events. We have added a new Spanish Churros unit.

In the past we have added churros making equipment to various of our existing catering units. This one has been purpose built especially for high volume events, although it will work just as well at a wedding or smaller event.

Our Little Blue Churros Box

High Capacity Churros Making Kit

To partner with our new unit, we selected a range of kit from J L Blanco, one of Spain’s leading manufacturers of churros making equipment.

High yield circular fryers were added in both electric and gas versions, allowing us the ability to operate with low power generators where necessary, or utilise the higher throughput of the electric fryer when adequate power is avialable.

Electric Churros Fryer
Electric Churros Fryer

Automatic Churros Dispenser

To partner with the fryer we selected a fully automatic dough dispenser. This dispenses, measures and cuts the extruded dough to the correct length, dropping a pre selected number of churros into the fryer at the touch of a button giving our churros box a super high yield potential.

Automatic Churros Dispenser
Automatic Churros Dispenser

Of course knowing the propensity of electronics to cease working at the most inconvenient of times, we also added a manual dispenser, allowing us to do it the old fashioned way.

Manual Dispenser
Manual Dispenser

Birmingham Cathedral Market

The first outing for the new churros box was the cathedral Christmas market in Birmingham. A 5 week stint serving churros at the festive event proved the units worth.

Although the unit is perfectly at home with smaller events, it is designed primarily for larger events and festival, where it can operate constantly at high speed for hours on end. If you are planning a major event, or just have a lot of hungry guests then this is the way to go.

Ask us for more details, remember all you need is love and churros.

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Burgers Of The World, White Castle Slider

18 December 2023

The first in our series about some of the weird and wonderful burgers out there. The ‘slider’ comes from White Castle, who are generally accepted to be the earliest burger chain in the good ole USA.

Launched in 1921 by Billy Ingram, selling small square hamburgers ‘so easy to eat’ they were dubbed sliders. the idea was you ‘bought em by the sack.’ They were designed to be bought in bulk, more of a bite sized burger than a full on meal.

1921 Slider

Inspired by the burger that started it all, the original White Castle Slider. Caramelised onions, cheddar cheese, tomato, lettuce and pickles.

Holes In The Burgers

One unusual feature of the sliders, are the five holes in the patty. This serves the dual purpose of cooking the pattie quicker, as they are usually piled high in the steamer, and allowing the flavour from the bed of onions they are cooked upon, to permeate throughout the stack.

Chicken and Waffle Slider

They now have a range of different sliders, not only in the typical burger bun, but in between waffles or toast.

This one comes with crispy chicken breast, topped with bacon and sandwiched between two Belgian waffles.

French Toast Slider

Or how about this one, Cinnamon swirl French toast, with egg, American cheese and sausage or smoked bacon.

White castle sliders are considered to be one of the most influential burgers in history, kickstarting an entire fast food industry, along with innovations such as standardised food production across the whole chain, and the kitchen as a production line.

We currently don’t do square, and we don’t do sliders, but if you want a top class gourmet burger then check us out.