Mashcroft's takeaway announces expansion

Lancaster Guardian

Mashed potato takeaway set to expand into Lancaster and also to open new branch selling burgers

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00:00 Live. That's going to be the first thing people see now as well.

00:05 See if anybody joins. There's probably going to be no one joining now as well.

00:09 Which is pretty typical.

00:12 I don't actually know if I can tell if anyone's on. Oh my god.

00:15 My ears are a mess. You'll have to excuse us guys, we're just at the end of service.

00:19 Currently speaking to myself.

00:23 I don't know how to tell if there's anybody actually on this or not.

00:27 Are you able to go on your phone and share it?

00:31 Do you have MashCrofts? Oh, someone's on.

00:35 Hello, one person.

00:39 Who is it? Make yourself known. Oh, two people. That's exciting.

00:43 Give us a shout guys. Say hello.

00:47 So for those of you who don't know me by the way,

00:51 my name's James Ashcroft. I'm the owner/founder of MashCrofts.

00:55 So we've got some pretty exciting news.

00:59 We've got some pretty exciting news happening. Oh, we've got somebody on.

01:03 Oh, Tia. Hey Tia.

01:07 Oh, Tia's gone. Well, that was brief.

01:11 So yeah guys, we didn't know how many people were going to be on the other side of Friday night.

01:15 So I am going to obviously share this video live onto the page.

01:19 So that you guys can see the announcement along with the caption as well.

01:23 In case you don't want to watch my boring face throwing on for however many minutes.

01:27 But yeah, so I'll just crack on guys. As I said, I don't want to keep any of you

01:31 on your Friday evening and we want to get closed down and cleaned up and gone home.

01:35 So, obviously we started MashCrofts journey now a couple of months back.

01:39 Beginning of December. It's been a pretty exciting month so far, or two months so far.

01:43 We've had amazing feedback and reception on the food.

01:47 And we've been able to open Wingin' It as well, our second takeaway.

01:51 And we have actually got a couple of announcements to make.

01:55 So, as of Friday March 1st, MashCrofts will officially be a two location business.

02:03 So you guys have asked if we can open up in Lancaster, deliver to Lancaster.

02:09 And so far we haven't wanted to obviously move over to Lancaster or deliver to Lancaster.

02:15 Just because we couldn't ensure the quality of the food.

02:19 We have been in negotiations for a while and we are very, very excited to announce

02:25 that we are going to be opening up in the Barroom Hotel kitchen.

02:31 As of Friday 1st March. So we're going to be having a big launch party.

02:35 We're going to put some money behind the bar for you guys who like a drink.

02:38 We'll put a load of food out. So, cranky, there's loads of people on now as well. Heavens.

02:42 So just in case anybody did miss that, as of Friday 1st March, we're taking over the Barroom kitchen.

02:48 So that's going to be on, yeah. So basically the very same format that we run here.

02:53 So we're going to have MashCrofts and Wing in it. And yeah, it's very, very exciting,

02:56 which means we can bring your food to Lancaster, from Lancaster.

03:00 And it's without worrying about the quality. So it's a very, very exciting time for us here.

03:05 So we're just in the process of locking down some chefs ready to go.

03:10 Myself, I'm going to be based out on Lancaster with a good friend of mine.

03:14 Which leads us on to our next point. So obviously we have MashCrofts, we have Wing in it.

03:19 And then as of the 1st March, we're also going to be launching SmashCrofts,

03:23 which is going to be a brand new smash burger takeaway business out of Lancaster,

03:28 which we are really excited about. So we've been going through loads and loads of back end stuff.

03:33 So we've got some really, really interesting burgers going on the menu, which is going to be pretty exciting.

03:38 Everything from peppercorn burgers to burgers made out of doughnuts with jam and peanut butter.

03:45 It's going to be wild. We're very excited about it.

03:48 But yeah, as I say, we've been putting a lot of hard work in the back end.

03:52 Obviously, I know we've had a couple of days off this week. It's our first day opening this week.

03:56 For a number of reasons, I have actually, unfortunately, I've actually had pneumonia, which has been tough.

04:01 But we've also been working hard on the back end as well, just to get everything right and ready for the beginning of March.

04:07 But yeah, we're very, very excited to get this launched, guys.

04:11 And we look forward to seeing you guys in Lancaster, in Lancaster.

04:16 And aside from that, we will speak to you soon. Peace out, guys. It's a potato thing.

04:21 think.

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