Catering for Valentine's Day Events: Top 5 Ideas

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Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. This means it is a great time of the year to utilise your business and cater for all those loved-up couples, singles, those celebrating Galentine’s, and any other person that wants to share the love with others and get into the Valentine’s spirit.

Valentine’s Day is a fantastic marketing opportunity for many businesses. It creates a gap for you to increase sales and make people aware of your business, drawing them with a Valentine’s theme.

Valentine’s Day Event Ideas

With Valentine’s Day quickly looming, here are some top ideas for the event of Valentine’s day that you can incorporate into your mobile food business, so carry on reading to be inspired and to get creative this February.

Valentine’s Day for Your Mobile Catering Business

You can get creative with Valentine’s day, altering your business to include more of a theme. Choose to target those that love Valentine’s Day and even those that don’t.

The great thing about having a mobile catering business is that you are flexible with what you can create, being able to alter your menu and products at the drop of a hat. Get ahead of the game and beat your competition.

1. Get Creative

As you are a mobile catering business, get creative with your products! Creating and selling food and drink is what you do best as a mobile food business, so alter your products or update your menu slightly to cater for this romantic time of the year.

For some inspiration on how to alter your current menu and food items, you could try the following suggestions down below.

Heart-Shaped Pizza

If you sell pizza why not create a heart-shaped dough instead of a round one? Or if not, you could lay your toppings out in a heart arrangement on top of your pizza, or perhaps have heart cut-out slices of pepperoni.

The novelty of these Valentine-themed changes is sure to go down as a hit with the public, whilst still maintaining your delicious pizza that everyone craves and loves.

Themed Sprinkles

If sweet treats are your business thing, then you can easily have some Valentine day themed toppings such as heart sprinkles, or decorative icing, all with the theme of red, white and pink.

Coffee Art

If you are a specialist barista on the go, or maybe serve your coffee as an extra to your business.

Get creative with your coffee-making skills and incorporate latte foam art into your coffee-making. A heart shape is pretty easy to achieve, or you can opt for a heart shape or ‘love’ stencil for chocolate sprinkles on top of your cappuccinos for an easier method of spreading the love through your hot drinks.

2. Play Music

Why not play some music from your trailer or kiosk? Music has the ability to change a mood and get people in the spirit.

Make a playlist of likeable songs that are Valentine’s themed, just try not to go too cheesy on the music, as you don’t want to put anyone off – but you can set the tone, enhance the atmosphere and lighten the mood.

3. Decorate

Decorate your food truck, trailer or gazebo and incorporate a romantic theme. Think about decorative roses around your signage or perhaps heart-shaped bunting or balloons.

Using these small, decorative yet inexpensive additions to your mobile vendor is an excellent solution to adding a bit of a theme to your van, gazebo or truck etc. This requires little effort, yet is still enough to grab people’s attention and attract them to your stall to see what other Valentine’s themed products you have to offer.

4. Lighting

Why not use some cute fairy lights to create a romantic theme? Lights are a great way to enhance the mood in any location – even if your business is a mobile one. Outdoor door lighting can be just as effective as indoor light settings, so why not get creative with lighting options?

You can get some really lovely fairy lights these days that can add to your stall, ones that are hearts, flowers or rose petals, for example.

Fairy lights are always available as battery operated as opposed to a mains supply, which will save you power on your generator or other power sources – that will of course be needed for your cooking.

Simply hang or wrap your fairy lights around a mobile trailer or gazebo or signage, creating a more romantic and relaxing vibe.

5. Create Delicious Desserts

Valentine’s day is all about you and the ones you love treating yourselves – and this always equals naughty desserts. Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to offer something sweet and delicious from your mobile catering business – even if sweet treats are not the focus of your business.

You could create or source Valentine’s brownies for example, with themed toppings or iced messages on the front. Cupcakes are another option that holds endless possibilities for the number of toppings and decorations that you can create with these tasty cakes.

Just incorporating one or two of these sweet treat ideas – or an idea of your own could help you to boost profits. It is a simple and easy way of getting in the spirit, whilst encouraging your customers.

Hire This Valentine’s Day With Big Kahuna

Hiring for your catering business is easier than ever with Big Kahuna. We are all the equipment to hire that you could need to make your products for Valentine’s Day and throughout the year.

Whether you are a well-established mobile catering business and are just looking for some inspiration, new equipment or branded signage. Perhaps you are starting a business from scratch and would like to know the right food kiosk for you.

Visit our Big Kahuna website for more information about our products and service and more about what we do.

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