Well….I’m glad you asked.A supper club is a fantastic way for anyone who loves cooking to share their passion for it, basically you feed people who are equally as enthusiastic about enjoying your food.
We’re never happier than when we’re in the kitchen muddling around, and we love creating fabulous food to enjoy, but it’s always struck us as a bit of a waste to keep our skills to ourselves, and let’s face it there’s only so many friends that you can feed.
For several years we’ve wanted to do some kind of pop up restaurant type thing, but have been at a loss as to how to do it and if it’s even possible. With both of us working in public facing businesses and the food industry we were keen to create an opportunity to cater for people, but on our terms, for our own enjoyment, with a reduction in the HR, red tape and associated hassles that go with running a small business.
This is where we stumbled on supper clubs, while listening to the radio of all things. One day we had our local food radio program on and being interviewed was a guy who held supper clubs, wow we thought! On listening more he explained how there was a platform online called We Find Food, or WeFiFo for short who help host these things in an Airbnb for food kind of way. Well you can imagine our excitement, we went straight on the net to have a look. Suddenly it all fell into place, we could host a supper club, in our home, cook what we wanted, when we wanted and get paid for it…. jackpot!
On further investigation we found that by signing up to WeFiFo we could list our event, publish our menu, set a few house rules if we wished and in return for a commission they’d insure us, help market our events and offer us all the support we’d need.
There were full instructions for the requirements, which do involve registering with your local Environment Health department, who were incredibly helpful and is certainly not something that should put you off. So there it was, we’d decided our first menu, set the date and published our event, now began the nerve racking bit….will anyone actually book on. Within an hour we had our first booking and by the next morning we were nearly fully booked our 8 seats, and that’s the thing this can be as big or as small as you like, we chose 8 as that’s the number that fit round our table, and we also chose not to eat with our guests, but again that’s up to you. So now the real work began!
J&O
Secret Passage Supper Club 