December 2024. Third year of trading about to start. We’d just run through our most complete year yet — more products, more events, more customers, more reviews. The question going into 2025 was: what next, and in what order? Four Priorities The first was completing the gift set architecture. We had the building blocks — […]
At the end of 2024 — the end of our second full trading year — we ran a review of what had changed and what hadn’t. Both lists matter. What Changed in 2024 Four products joined the range in 2024: The Corporate Personalised Apron (February 2024) — the Gaucho at £49 for corporate orders of […]
By November 2024 we had been selling gift bundles for two years. They worked — customers bought them, the feedback was good, and they solved the obvious problem of what to give someone who takes outdoor cooking seriously. What we didn’t have was architecture. Architecture means a range that answers every gifting question. What’s the […]
By the end of 2024 we had run more than fifty events with the Bison Hill Grill. Private gardens, corporate days, a wedding, a food festival, two-day private cooks — every format that live-fire catering takes in Surrey, Sussex, and Kent. A full year of the operation running at pace produced more product and operational […]
If you want to know whether kit actually works, run it through October in Surrey. The conditions in Surrey, Sussex, and Kent in October are not dramatic in the way of a Scottish winter or a coastal storm. They’re something more insidious: 8 to 14°C, variable wind, occasional rain, days that start dry and end […]
We passed 100 verified five-star reviews in September 2024. Trustpilot, Google, on-site — customers who bought the product, used it, and came back to say something about it. Numbers like this are easy to inflate. Buy reviews, incentivise them, chase them with follow-up emails that make it easier to click five stars than think about […]
There’s a version of outdoor cooking culture that treats September as the end of the season. Pack up the grill, put the cover on, wait for next May. That version doesn’t exist here. September in the UK is when outdoor cooking gets interesting. The temperature drops — sometimes sharply — wind picks up, and the […]
July and August 2024 were the most demanding eight weeks the Bison Hill Grill has seen. Multiple events per week at several points across the summer, a team of four running entirely on Bison Hill kit, and a range of occasions that tested every product in a way that a single cook or a controlled […]
The Bison Hill Grill is our mobile open-air kitchen, operating at events across Surrey, Sussex, and Kent. It’s how we do live-fire cooking in public — the commercial expression of everything the brand is built around. It’s also, not incidentally, the most rigorous product testing environment we have. Customer reviews are valuable. They tell us […]
Customers had been asking for a personalised version of the Gaucho BBQ Grill Apron since we launched in November 2022. The request was consistent enough to log: birthdays, Father’s Day, Christmas, wedding gifts. People who already owned a Gaucho and wanted one with their name on it. People buying for someone else who wanted to […]
