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“So we had the truck and we were just sitting around and
couldn’t take it out anywhere because of the weather.
We worked for a week and then we were off for two
months.” Since then Bite My Biscuit has done nothing but
grow.
“Everything we serve is made on homemade buttermilk biscuits that we make from scratch every day,” Grant
explained. “We do brisket, pork, doughnuts, breakfast
biscuits with gravy. Basically anything that has been on a
bun or tortilla we’ve put on our biscuits.” They recently
won the 2016 Food Truck Championship of Texas with
the Blaker ATW which is fried chicken, bacon avocado,
and honey mayo piled onto their signature buttermilk
biscuit. “That was so shocking,” Candice said. “Because
we never thought we’d be the ones to win.”
Most of the supplies the Lambdins use are from local
places including Parker County’s local farmer’s market.
This past First Monday they bought all their vegetables
and various ingredients from Weatherford’s market. “We
do have a few [supplies] that come from a restaurant
supply, but we shop at farmers markets whenever we can,
like we have one close to home so we go there all the
time,” Grant explained. “The only thing that we don’t get
local is the imported stuff like a few things from Louisiana
for the Cajun-type recipes we use.”
The general area that Bite My Biscuit caters to is Fort
Worth and its surrounding cities. “The farthest we’ve
been is Decatur. We’ve gone to Waco and Graham. A
couple of hours from Fort Worth is as far as we usually
go,” Candice said. “But we’ll go farther if the opportunity
presents itself.” They are still catering events including
Taste of Dallas and the Buckets and Boots fundraiser
out in Graford, which is a huge event for the volunteer
fire department. They have even done the Blue Bonnet
Festival as well as the Fort Worth Food and Wine festival
last year. “Some events we go to every year and some of
them are a one-time thing,” the couple said. “We do a
lot here in Parker County like First Monday trade days,
Weatherford Blooms festival, some of the car shows, business grand openings. We’ve done the Rescue Rodeo too.
We’re usually at First Mondays and the Clear Fork Food
Park in Fort Worth. And all the local breweries and distilleries.”
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They can be found at the food park about four times
a month. “We don’t have a lot of availability to the food
parks because we try to stay loyal to the people who
believed in us from the beginning,” Grant said. “The
industry is not what we expected but we have a lot of fun
doing it.” The food truck is cheaper than owning their
own restaurant, so the Lambdins see Bite My Biscuit as
“getting their feet wet.”
“Ultimately, having a restaurant is where we are wanting to go. If the biscuits don’t work out, then we still have
a mobile food truck and we had started catering before
we had the food truck. And with the catering having the
food truck allows us to cook food on site. We can change
the location or even the menu if Bite My Biscuit doesn’t
work out,” they said. “It seemed the easier way to go and
not that much liability. And we’re young, and didn’t have
the money to invest into a restaurant.” They want to be in
a restaurant of their own in the next five to 10 years and
they also want to expand the Bite My Biscuit fleet.
With the success of the food truck, the Lambdins are
already getting reoccurring events. “It’s not in our plans to
travel to other states at the moment,” Candice said. “We
have so much we want to do here and we have so much
business here. We have a lot of reoccurring events that
are already booked for next year.”
Plus, with the complication of getting their permits
they aren’t traveling like they thought they would. “We
can only take the truck so far with our current permits,”
they said. But they still have plans for more competitions.
“There is a biscuit fest in Tennessee that we’re thinking of
attending, but the permitting side of it makes it difficult,”
the resident cook explained. “Permits aren’t done state by
state but by city and county, so every different city we go
to we’d have to check with the city requirements to be
able to get the proper permit. We just have to make sure
that it’s feasible and we have everything right.”
But for now they are happy doing what they’re doing.
“We work on the truck and we have two college girls that
work part-time for us,” Candice said with a smile. “And
hopefully one of them will work full-time when she graduates in August. Our family and friends really help us too,
especially Grant’s brother, but it’s all on a part-time basis.
Grant and I are the only full-time people.”
With their backgrounds and experience, it’s no
surprise Bite My Biscuit is such a hit wherever it goes.