The Rise Of The Mobile Restaurant

Appropriately qualifying for ingeniously imbued business men and women, they make food available on the go. In this report NNAMDI ONYEUMA takes a look on the steadily growing mobile food business.

Straight from the oven; fresh, soft and sizzling hot, Oshomah Morgan’s collection of assorted brands of bread such as Queens’ Meal, Butterfield, Top Crust, Val-U and Sweet Heart, among others, compelled the buying action. Adding up, too, is the expert manner in which he arranged them in the booth of his Mercedes E20 car and the irresistible aroma oozing out from the pack. His bread is fresh and hot, but they are not the only exciting thing that is hot. The mobile restaurant and foods business, an emerging and increasingly growing phenomenon, itself, is also hot, today. Since the Lagos State government proscribed street trading, it has taken acute ingenuity of the desperate and determined to re-invent street trading through this phenomenal business on wheel. In an interview with Saturday Mirror, an obviously happy Morgan told the newspaper that he has been meeting his personal and family needs by selling bread four times a week, in Ikeja, and some suburbs of Lagos State where he has customers.Read more National Mirror