Can you imagine what it takes to make and serve over two thousands coffees in one weekend? Or how about over 500 “legendary” bacon and egg butties to hungry WOMAD punters? This would prove a challenge for most, but if you are Fran Bateman owner and operator of Sandwich Extreme café the only thing you will see or hear from her and her crew of 11 over WOMAD weekend are smiles and an unbelievable positive attitude.
There is always this amazing feeling and buzz before WOMAD. Fran says she cannot describe it, and looks forward to the whole festival from start to finish.The logistics involved to cater for a huge crowd over an intensive weekend is massive. Past experience tells Fran that she needs over one hundred kg bacon, fifty dozen free range eggs and as for the coffee the team makes over one thousand cups a day so you can just imagine how much coffee is needed(Fair trade coffee of course) to survive the weekend.
Fran’s favorite moment at WOMAD would have to be: “having the performers Sharron Jones and the Dap Kings come and visit our stall, I can remember exactly what they ordered Sharron had a flat white and the Kings had long blacks and they all tried our bacon and egg butties of course. Just seeing Brooklands Park for the first time with our flags flying high and the sun shinning, I remember thinking how special it looked”.
If you are wondering where Sandwich Extreme is, the Café is located at 52 Devon Street East, New Plymouth and are onsite at the global village again next year in 2011 on WOMAD weekend.
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