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title:  "Käsewerkstatt"
excerpt: "Building a Food trailer and selling my first Food"
date:   2024-07-5 14:39:27 +0100
author: "Aron Petau"

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  credit: "Aron Petau"


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  - url: /assets/images/käsewerkstatt/cheese.jpeg
    image_path: /assets/images/käsewerkstatt/cheese.jpeg
    title: "Scraping the cheese"
  - url: /assets/images/käsewerkstatt/combo_serve.jpeg
    image_path: /assets/images/käsewerkstatt/combo_serve.jpeg
    title: "The Recommended Combo from the Käsewerkstatt"
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    title: "The Logo of the Käsewerkstatt, done with the Shaper Origin"

tags:
  - food truck
  - cars
  - bruschetta
  - raclette
  - workshop

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## Enter the Käsewerkstatt

One day earlier this year I woke up and realized I had a space problem.
I was trying to build out a workshop and tackle ever more advanced and dusty plastic and woodworking projects and after another small run in with my girlfriend after I had repeatedly crossed the "No-Sanding-and-Linseed-Oiling-Policy" in our Living Room, it was time to do something about it.
I am based in Berlin right now and the housing market is going completely haywire over here ( quick shoutout in solidarity with [Deutsche Wohnen und Co enteignen](https://dwenteignen.de/)).
End of the song: I won't be able to afford to rent a small workshop anywhere near berlin anytime soon. As you will notice in some other projects, I am quite opposed to the Idea that it should be considered normal to park ones car in the middle of the city on public spaces, for example [Autoimmunitaet](/autoimmunitaet), [Commoning Cars](/commoning-cars) or [Dreams of Cars](/dreams-of-cars).

So, the idea was born, to regain that space as habitable zone, taking back usable space from parked cars.
I was gonna install a mobile workshop within a trailer.
Ideally, the trailer should be lockable and have enough standing and working space.
As it turns out, Food Trailers fulfill these criteria quite nicely. So I got out on a quest, finding the cheapest food trailer available in germany.

6 weeks later, I found it near munich, got it and started immediately renovating it.

Due to developments in parallel, I was already invited to sell food and have the ofgficial premiere at the Bergfest, a Weekend Format in Brandenburg an der Havel, initiated and organized by [Zirkus Creativo](https://zirkus-creativo.de). Many thanks for the invitation here again!

So on it went, I spent some afternoons renovating and outfitting the trailer, and did my first ever shopping at Metro, a local B2B Foodstuffs Market.

Meanwhile, I got into all the paperwork and did all the necessary instructional courses and certificates.
The first food I wanted to sell was Raclette on fresh bread, a swiss dish that is quite popular in germany.
For the future, the trailer is supposed to tend more towards vegan dishes, as a first tryout I also sold a bruschetta combo. This turned out great, since the weather was quite hot and the bruschetta was a nice and light snack, while I could use the same type of bread for the raclette.

![The finished Trailer](/assets/images/käsewerkstatt/trailer.jpeg)

The event itself was great, and, in part at least, started paying off the trailer.

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We encountered lots of positive feedback and I am looking forward to the next event. So, in case you want to have a foodtruck at your event, hit me up!

Contact me at: [käsewerkstatt@petau.net](mailto:käsewerkstatt@petau.net)
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