Caribbean sizzling sauce producer Mama Lolly’s set to scale as much as meet demand

Caribbean sizzling sauce makers Mama Lolly’s have introduced plans to scale up manufacturing of their handmade sizzling sauce recipes.

The specialist meals agency are already the winners of three Nice Style Awards, and are busy planning enlargement following their success by means of on-line gross sales, unbiased delis and meals gala’s.

Director Donna-Lee Tapper explains: “Our Caribbean sizzling sauces have actual provenance. The intently guarded recipes, developed by my grandmother, Mama Lolly, have proved extraordinarily common with discerning clients, and gross sales over the previous few years have been very promising.

“A lot so, that we are actually wanting on the subsequent steps, together with scaling up the enterprise by means of a manufacturing facility, to allow us to succeed in a wider market. That is consistent with our technique of deliberate, sustainable progress.”

Donna provides that the story of Mama Lolly’s started when her household migrated from Jamaica to London in 1957, the place they stayed for a couple of years earlier than transferring to Antigua.

She describes their journey: “My household and I opened a Caribbean vegetarian café, nestled within the gardens of the historic purchasing space in Redcliffe Quay, St John’s. We ran it for 14 years and shortly developed a repute for persistently good meals, a terrific environment, and a superb place for patrons to fulfill associates.

“The recent sauces that we now make are virtually an unintentional by-product of Mama Lolly’s vegetarian café, as a result of we would have liked all our personal condiments and sizzling sauces to be used throughout the enterprise.”

She provides: “We’d have the sauces on the tables and on the counter for anyone to make use of. We shortly reached the purpose the place folks appreciated the sauces a lot that they’d come by in the event that they had been travelling overseas, to select up some bottles to take to their family and friends as items.”

Donna continues: “Quick ahead to 2012; at this level we’re all again within the UK and I wished us to proceed making the sauces. We pared down our vary to focus on simply the recent sauces and the inexperienced seasoning. Our merchandise are targeted on Purple Sizzling Sauce, Yellow Sizzling Sauce, and our Tropical Inexperienced Sizzling Sauce.”

Mama Lolly handed away in 2016, however Donna and her mom Maxine have continued her legacy by producing sauces and condiments in response to her well-guarded recipes.  She and Maxine have been making these in small batches and have achieved good gross sales at meals gala’s and delis, and thru unbiased motels, as desk condiments. They’ve additionally loved good buying and selling success with on-line gross sales.

“The success of our enterprise is measured by our clients’ suggestions and repeat purchases, which implies that we’re now planning to upscale our enterprise and widen our advertising and marketing actions” says Donna.

She provides: “It’s nice to know that we’re poised for additional progress. In actuality, we’re merely the stewards of those fabulous Recipes, and our job is to retain their provenance and authenticity. I do know that Mama Lolly could be delighted to know that her prolonged household have constructed a profitable enterprise on her culinary foundations.”

The group at Mama Lolly’s can be exhibiting on the Speciality Positive Meals Truthful at Olympia, London, on September tenth and 11^th. The occasion, in its 25^th yr, is thought to be the UK’s main showcase of artisanal foods and drinks. It has turn into the house of superb foods and drinks discovery for patrons, from throughout the retail, hospitality, foodservice, manufacturing, import and export, and wholesale sectors.