Where the work is, who is booking, and how mobile caterers are filling the diary. Written for the people in the van.
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Farnham Food and Drink Festival is this Sunday — 100+ traders, four sites, free entry, 10am to 4pm. If you have a pitch, the early-afternoon window is where the day is won or lost.
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If your turnover — not your profit — topped £50k in 2024/25, you are in Making Tax Digital for Income Tax now. Quarterly digital records instead of one big January return, and the next deadline is 7 November.
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Most vans could name their best-seller from memory. Far fewer could say what sold in the last hour on a wet Tuesday versus a packed Saturday — and that is usually the number that decides what you should have prepped.
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There is no line on the till roll for the person who looked at six people waiting and kept walking. That is the number worth attacking, and it is the one nobody measures.
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The trend pieces keep landing on the same number, and it matches what we see. What going card-and-QR-only actually changes at the hatch, and why the float is the last thing to go.
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Christmas market season is also the season for fake pitch offers. A minute spent checking the application route on the market's own website costs nothing. Not checking can cost a pitch fee and your documents.
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Newcastle and Birmingham get the attention, but Knaresborough and Knutsford are both open now — one-day and weekend markets with lower costs, lower commitment and a very different risk profile.
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8–11 October, Events Square and the Princess Pavilion, 25,000+ visitors last year. Applications are open — but it is worth being honest about what kind of event it is before you fill the form in.
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After 17 years in the same spot, Farnham's one-day festival has been pushed across town by roadworks. Four sites, 100+ traders, free buses between them — here's what changes for anyone trading or visiting on 27 September.
Read more →Trader applications for several UK Christmas markets are open now, with deadlines weeks before trading starts. What to check before you apply, and why queue speed matters more in a short winter window.
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Google ads, a Facebook group post, or word of mouth — the usual ways to find a food van are slower and less certain than they should be. Here's what a listing actually needs to answer, and why we built a free directory around exactly that.
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Street food weddings have gone from novelty to mainstream, and couples now book trucks 9-12 months ahead. Here's the pricing, the planning timeline, and the one problem multi-truck weddings create that most vans haven't solved yet.
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Every directory that charges someone ends up incomplete. Here's why Eventibites is free to list and free to search, and why that's the only way it becomes the one people actually use.
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The Street Food Business Expo returns to ExCeL London on 29-30 September. Around 100 exhibitors and 3,000+ attendees, but the seminar programme — not the stands — is what's worth planning your day around.
Read more →Festival season is winding down, but the corporate calendar is just getting started. Here's what office lunches, launch events and Christmas parties actually pay, and how to get on a booker's list before December fills up.
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The generators are going quiet and the fields are emptying out. Before you park the van for winter, here's what's worth doing now — plus why parking up doesn't have to mean your income does too.
Read more →We asked the community. The record days, the brutal days, the gear that worked, the tech that didn't — and what pre-order time slots are actually doing for traders right now.
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It's been a busy week at Eventifood. SMS order notifications, cross-platform menu sync, and a smarter order history view are all live now.
Read more →Customers can now find your van on a live map, scan a QR code for an automatic discount, and pay with Apple Pay or Google Pay — all shipped this month, all included at no extra cost.
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We’ve been out at festivals this summer watching Eventifood work in real conditions — queues dissolving, sellers smiling. Here’s what we’ve seen, what we’ve shipped, and what’s coming next.
Read more →I built Eventifood to solve a specific problem I kept seeing at food trucks — and deliberately chose not to make it a POS system. Here's why that decision makes it better for you.
Read more →Eventibites charges caterers nothing to appear and organisers nothing to search. No commission on what you book, and no contract — which is exactly why it can become the most complete list of mobile caterers in the UK.
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