00:00 I'm having...
00:02 Anything else?
00:03 No but I'm the other one.
00:04 Kerry, Hannah from Mansfield. It took us an hour and ten minutes to get here.
00:08 Farzat from TikTok where Peter Mann is and I'm going to enjoy my dinner today from here.
00:13 Been here 21 years in Tamworth. Came back after Covid and we needed to let people know we were here basically.
00:22 So it was, how are we going to do this? One of my lads put TikTok in front of me.
00:27 We made a few videos and I think my second or third video got half a million views.
00:32 And it opened my eyes to the power of TikTok and social media and never looked back really.
00:38 We posted every day, you know, three, four, five videos every day on TikTok and we've grown this amazing following.
00:46 And then all of a sudden in October, video after video after video started going viral.
00:51 One of them nearly 100 million views.
00:54 What do you enjoy doing?
00:58 People genuinely see how much I enjoy my job and I love coming to work and I love serving the people of Tamworth.
01:05 Obviously our lovely jacket potatoes. These are grown 10 miles away.
01:09 Local farmer that we use. We use a variety called Melody. Really nice.
01:14 We've got beans, curry, chilli, minced beef, pulled pork, coleslaw, tuna mayo, sweet corn and cheese, of course.
01:24 We like to support local farmers. I grew up for granddad was a farmer and so supporting local is, you know, essential to us as well.
01:34 It is nice to keep the money in the area.
01:38 The free day was an idea I had six months ago before we really went viral and it was a nice way to give back to the community.
01:46 Wanted to give everyone we possibly could a jacket potato for free.
01:51 It grew into a far bigger event than I ever thought it would.
01:55 We had queues of nearly four hours long at one point.
01:59 We serve 2,200 potatoes in five hours, which is no little accomplishment. I'm sure there's some kind of world record in there somewhere.
02:09 Amazing atmosphere. We raised nearly £11,000 for kidney research.
02:14 Charity very close to my heart. I've been on dialysis for 12 years and three failed transplants.
02:21 So yeah, kidney research is a big thing for me.
02:25 And it also brings so much trade to Tamworth.
02:29 Yes, we were giving away freebies, but I spoke to the other food vendors and they were all busy and had really good days for the time of year.
02:37 So it was really nice to see Tamworth buzzing and lots of people coming in and spending their money.
02:44 Yeah, it's good. It's fun times.
02:46 Hi, I'm April. I heard about this through TikTok and we're from Telford and we came up today to just give it a go.
02:52 I've got a jacket with tuna and cheese and we probably only queued for about 10 minutes to get it.
02:58 Hi, we're from Birmingham. My name's Jason.
03:02 Hi, I'm from Birmingham. My name's Sue. I'm here to enjoy the lovely spud from Spudman.
03:07 I've got cheese and coleslaw.
03:09 And I've got pulled pork and cheese. It's lovely.
03:12 play.
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