Before opening Tartan Rocket owners Louise & Bruce started out working as Chefs in bakery, hotels and restaurant kitchens in their teens. Louise went to college to achieve culinary art qualifications before travelling overseas working as a pastry chef in various high end establishments gaining skills and experience (meant to be for 1 year but ended up being for 15, you know how it goes!),  Bruce was a City & Guilds lecturer at catering college for many years before joining a prestigious team of circuit chefs catering for major UK wide sporting events.

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"We started working in the same event catering kitchen back in 2002 both sharing the same work ethic and annoying attention to detail and thought we should start a business for ourselves you know...so in 2005 we did! We supplied caterers, coffee shops, restaurants etc with our one main goal - to make fresh, handmade delicious food that we would want to be served ourselves. Chilled fresh soup initially and it's just grown from there, new product lines, repeat customers some that we have now supplied for more than 15 years. We don't advertise, all of our customers come from word of mouth or they have been at an event and tried our food and got in touch...here we are almost 2 decades on with chilled delivery vans covering the central belt of Scotland.

Many of you know that running a business isn't easy and we are proud to have kept Tartan Rocket going through too many challenges, we couldn't have done it by ourselves of course, there are  20 members of the Tartan Rocket team and we're proud to be working alongside a talented, dedicated and reliable dream team of staff in all areas of our operation - food production, kitchen porter crew and our punctual friendly and knowledgeable delivery drivers, all from the local area and have been with us for many years some from the start. We have employed many colourful characters over the years, like all kitchens but Tartan Rocket would not be as strong as it is today without all of their input so we'd like to take this opportunity to give every single member of the team - old and new - another pat on the back for their efforts and say a big thanks.

PLANS FOR 2024 

This is going to be a good year for you and us, onwards and upwards. Our popular online shop which we only created to keep us afloat during lockdown is thankfully busier than ever with the new website design and product ranges served in ECOBOX® packaging, sustainably sourced and easy to recycle.

We have been working on a side project for 2 years and are super excited to be opening a bricks and mortar retail shop this year, we are very nearly there and hopefully you'll come down and have a nosey.  We are very approachable and are always open to new opportunities, pop up shops, collaborations just use the contact us bubble and we can make a plan.

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Ok that's it, we appreciate you taking the time to read this mega story and a massive thank you to every customer that has ever placed an order.

Keep in touch on our socials for updates on the shop opening plus promo's that we are running, you won't get bombarded - we're great at food but social media is a different story it takes us an hour and about 10 attempts to work out how to post one thing  :o)