Jamaican Me Bark for Dog Treats. –by Christie Zizo
Orlando’s food truck scene is an inter- national feast these days: Cuban, Italian, Caribbean, French, Chinese, Korean, even Swedish foods. There is everything from banh mi to ox tail to ribs to gelato to cupcakes. There are also empanadas, bacon
yammies and ice cream. But those are for the dogs.
“Jamaican bark patties, honey apple pup- cakes and Italian mutt-balls.” The sisters now have a rotating list of
goodies that includes bacon wrapped yammies (bacon wrapped sweet potato treats), jerky treats, pepperoni pooch pizza and the quesadilla cookies. Hicks said the bacon yammies are probably the best-seller. They are simple
Lauren Hicks, co-owner of Sit ‘N Stay Pet Cafe usualy travels with Peggy, her three-legged Pit Bull.
Hicks said the business is starting to
pay for itself. Their biggest events, surpris- ingly, are not dog events. “You would think I would do really
good at dog events. It turns out that those are the events where I do less sales,” Hicks said. “We do better at food truck bazaars. I didn’t think that was going to be the case when we started. But I’m pretty stoked at the publicity it’s gotten.” To find Sit ‘N Stay Pet Café at a
Central Florida area event, check out their website:
www.sitnstaypetcafe.com.
Lauren Hicks and her sister Kathy started Sit ‘N Stay Pet Café three years ago to do something fun and profitable. “I was at a food truck bazaar and thought there should be a food truck for dogs,” Hicks said while serving up treats at Fleet Peeples Park, a dog-friendly, lakefront park in Winter Park one afternoon. Hicks is a veterinarian technician
with at least 10 years of experience, and she and Kathy are massive foodies. Together they came up with a menu of treats – all homemade. “Maple bacon pupsicles were our first treats,” Hicks said, followed by,
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to make, and her sister does makes them. “Kathy does all the dehydrated
treats, so she does the bacon yammies, jerky treats and cat treats,” Hicks said. “Jerky is harder to make than you would imagine. It has to pretty much be a sterile environment. I would say 50 to 60 per- cent of making dehydrated jerky treats is all cleaning.” Sit ‘N Stay was the third pet food
truck on the road in the country when they started. Now there are about a half dozen trucks. Hicks’ truck has been fea- tured in a slew of articles, from Pet Age magazine to MSNBC.
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