Barry Stubbs:

 

Since starting in 1976, one of the hottest summers on record, with a hired van and a garage, Tavern Snacks today has come a long way and operates fourteen 7.5 Ton trucks from a modern warehouse / offices in Charlton, South East London.

 

It remains a family owned and run business, employing around 30 people and services pubs, bars and clubs in an area covering all of Greater London and much of the South East of England.

 

Product range is wide and extensive and covers most, if not all, of the snacks demanded by today’s licensed outlets and their customers.     

 

Six varieties of crisps are stocked (if small tubs of Pringles are included), all carried in a large number of different and sometimes exotic flavours. The major range is Tavern Super Crisps, an own label brand in 40gm packs made to our specification in six slightly stronger flavours for the trade which we service. We also carry Tayto Crisps (“the taste of home”), Rough Cuts (a crinkle-cut product similar to McCoys) and Real Crisps, hand cooked in eight flavours. The premium product is Tyrells Potato Crisps, carried in two sizes and some fourteen flavours and Tyrells Furrows, a ridge-cut hand-cooked crisp in three flavours. In addition, Tyrells Proper Popcorn is also stocked, also in three separate flavours.

 

Seven different types of pre-packaged nuts are offered either on display cards or in dispenser boxes, whilst in addition, as the market has changed, some thirteen different varieties of nuts and snacks are stocked in bulk 2.5kg bags for those outlets which follow the increasing trend of dispensing such items in ramekins or small containers.

 

The list seems never ending - from Twiglets, Bacon Bites, Poppadoms & Dips, Mini Cheddars, Pretzel Pieces, Pork Scratchings & Crunch through to pickled eggs & onions, Biltong, cocktail cherries, sticks & stirrers, matches and a range of the leading chocolate confectionary brands, such as Mars, Kit Kat, Twix, Galaxy and so on and on and on!

 

Look at the full product list for details.

 

  

   

          

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A great advantage for us is that we can be flexible and act more quickly than some of our larger competitors, for changing customer demands to new market trends.

 

Over the years we have been first into the market in our area with a number of products. We brought the first pork scratchings to London, we were initially the sole supplier of Planters Dry Roasted Peanuts when they exploded onto the market, the only company to have Scampi Fries when Smiths were test marketing them in Wales and the west of England. And, a significant first: bringing out crisps packed in foil in 35gm bags when everyone else was still using polypropylene packaging for 25/26/28gm packets. For years our crisps were the ONLY single serve bag in foil -Walkers were last to go into foil.

 

The downside for Tavern Snacks is that we can't afford to employ Gary Lineker or throw millions of pounds at our brands each year in an effort to continue increasing market share - and that’s not sour grapes is it !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alfred Stubbs