If you’re like the Big Coffee team you may already have made (and broken) a fair few resolutions. It’s a great time of year for new beginnings, and if you’ve always dreamed of starting your own business – 2025 is the time to make it happen.
Whether you’re an aspiring business owner or an established entrepreneur, there’s never been a better time to start a mobile catering business. The industry is booming, customers are embracing mobile food and drink, and start-up costs are competitive.
Get inspired to grab your own piece of the action with our top 5 mobile catering opportunities for 2025.
1. Craft Cocktail Cart
Craft cocktails have become the most popular premium drink option in the UK – with artisanal spirits and small-batch mixers seeing supermarket sales alone topping £450 million last year. Britain is a nation in love with craft beverages, and there’s never been a better time to take advantage with your very own mobile cocktail business.
At Big Coffee, we’ve teamed up with premium spirits vendors to create a ready-made cocktail business complete with an eye-catching, unique Ape Cocktail van that’s guaranteed to command attention.
Perfect for festivals, markets, summer weddings, parties, corporate events, exhibitions and sporting occasions, a mobile bar is the perfect business for 2025.
2. Specialty Coffee
Once, Britain was a nation of tea drinkers – but coffee continues to dominate. The market might seem competitive, but there’s plenty of space for new outlets.
As a nation, we now drink more than 3.5 billion cups of coffee each year – and coffee sales in the UK topped £5 billion in 2024!
Coffee drinkers are increasingly educated and discerning, and there are huge opportunities for entrepreneurs to take advantage by offering a premium, high quality mobile alternative to the high street shops.
Over the past few years, an increasing number of customers are looking to support small, artisan food and drink producers. With a fully equipped Piaggio Ape Coffee Cart and business support from The Big Coffee – you can start your very own coffee empire in 2025.
3. Plant-based Smoothies
Looking to capitalise on the growth in sustainable eating and plant-based diets? Plant-based smoothies are big business, and offer a great mobile catering option that’s the perfect fit for today’s conscious consumer.
Adaptogenic, functional and protein-rich plant smoothies are the way to go, as consumers look for nutritious, environmentally-friendly alternatives with added health benefits. It’s a great business year-round, and the ideal add on for an existing mobile coffee cart business.
4. Artisanal Gelato
Upmarket, soft and smooth Italian style ice cream remains all the rage – and with warming temperatures, there’s no better mobile catering business for extended summer seasons.
Bring some Italian flair to your mobile gelato business with a specially converted electric Ape van or Piaggio cart – it’ll give your business a real sense of place and authenticity, whilst helping to attract a crowd.
An excellent companion to a mobile coffee cart, it will help you to maximise profits all year round.
5. Sustainable Street Food
Gone are the days of the greasy spoon – fast food is moving toward sustainability.
Plant-based alternatives, locally-sourced ingredients, and zero-waste packaging are in, and there’s still plenty of opportunity for entrepreneurs looking to add value with environmentally-conscious spins on traditional fast food favourites.
Sustainable, ethical, and high margin, it’s a great business for the year ahead.
Alternatively, why not go traditional and wholesome, with a mobile pie cart? Premium pies with plant-based options are in demand, and it’s the ideal mobile food business for those cold, wet winter days. Simply fit your van with a pie warmer, find a quality product and you’re good to go!
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