About Us
Spitting Pig Sussex
Buongiorno, I’m Marco and I’m the catering manager at Spitting Pig Sussex. I make sure your hog roast is cooked to perfection and the service we provide at your event is top tier. I’m originally from Southern Italy and I add my own Italian vibrance into my cooking and service.
I decided to venture into the hog roasting and catering world because no day in this role is ever the same! After working in hospitality for 14 years, I decided that I needed a new challenge which would reignite my motivation. Being a catering manager isn’t just about making delicious food. I love meeting new people every day and seeing them enjoy themselves, celebrating something or someone they love.
When I’m not hog roasting, I like to travel with my family to places all over the world, watch exciting sporting events and enjoy homemade meals with a good red wine to relax with.
Style And
Substance
If you’ve never enjoyed a Hog Roast dining experience before then prepare to be in for a treat. Our dining is quite like anything else you’ll find in catering; we put an onus on creating a real experience out of our service, one that is as much an event as the rest of the day. To us, dining isn’t just another element of an event; it’s an integral part of creating the overall experience for guests.
That is why we go the route of bringing style and spectacle to our dining. How do we do so, you might ask? Well with our namesake hog roast and all the brilliant trimmings that it brings, of course.
The hog roast is a dish that exudes style and spectacle at every turn – with, of course, plenty of deliciousness too! It is a dish that has been enjoyed at events across the world for centuries. Great community celebrations, kingly parties, cultural events, would all have enjoyed the immense sight of a whole roasted pig sitting atop a spit, turning and roasting to a perfect level of golden texturing.
The tradition of hog roasting is no less brilliant now as it was back in those days, only now our version is much more suited to the modern event. Our mobile roasting machines are incredible pieces of equipment designed by us to make hog roast catering easier than ever before. You get the full spectacle of the whole hog roast experience, only now it is easier to move and manage for events out at any location. We can cook a hog roast fresh at your event for the full effect, and then serve it fresh from the roaster too for the ultimate dining experience. It’s style, with more than enough substance to back it up!
The Sussex Team Behind
Your Hog Roast
You now know all about what our service provides to your event, so now it is time to learn about the brilliant people behind it. Hog Roast Sussex is made up of some of the best chefs in the game along with incredibly dedicated servers that can conjure up a solution to any issue at your event. Then there’s the folk back at our manufacturing houses working day in day out to continually iterate on the best hog roasting technologies available. And we can’t forget about our team in the office that work with our customers in the first place to put together their event and schedule out all of our work.
Here To Find Your Perfect Dining Experience
with Hog Roast Sussex
You’ll get to work with some of the most experienced chefs in their craft. You’ll also everyone on our team warm and friendly, and ready at a moment’s notice to help you with anything you need from your event. We want to create the most perfect dining experience for your event, and that only comes with an openness on both sides to create something brilliant, together.
At Hog Roast Sussex you will find an abundance of menus and services designed to suit the demands of just about any occasion. Weddings, corporate events, private parties; you name it and Hog Roast Sussex have the dining to suit it. When coming to us we will simply need to know a little about the occasion and your preferred style. That could mean you want a formal dining experience, or it could mean you want a laid-back service for your outdoor summer swing. We have the menus for both and much more.
We’ll talk you through your options and offer you opportunities to customise all you like until you have the event dining service you crave. Pick your favourite roast, or go for our gourmet barbecue to set the summer sizzling. It’s all up to you! All that we ask is you start with one simple call to the Hog Roast Sussex team today!
Meat & Vegetable Options
Quality
From The Start
We know that the best food can only start with the best ingredients so all our spit roast and barbecue meats are fresh and locally sourced from trusted suppliers before being cooked to perfection.
Nothing adds to the pleasure of good food more than good services. Spitting Pig’s trained chefs and waiters/waitresses ensure that the food is prepared and presented to your guests’ satisfaction.
For your further reassurance, all Spitting Pig Staff hold the Food and hygiene Certificate from the Charted Institute of Environmental Health.
At Spitting Pig, we have a Passion for food.. and we love to share it.
We are a hands-on, proprietor-run Company. So can offer flexibility as well as personal commitment.
Founded in 1986
Founded in 1986, Spitting Pig quickly become the UK’s number one Provider of spit and hog roast catering.
Stephen Marsden,MD, has built the reputation of Spitting Pig on consistent reliable service and over the 20 years has perfected the best catering equipment and methods. Spitting Pig is now offering this to people wanting to profit from their own successful business. Our equipment is built in-house to the highest standard using the finest materials and latest manufacturing techniques, enabling us to guarantee you a first rate product and a responsive maintenance service.
Manufacturing Journey
“On my journey, I have learned a great deal about the importance of service. A good event leads to a recommendation but a great event leads to many more. Attention to detail is critical: Consider the difference between how turning up professionally in named chef whites looks, rather than appearing in a dirty shirt and shorts. I believe the package is not only about the equipment, but also about providing a helping hand to our partners, sharing the wealth of knowledge gained through my long standing experience in the catering industry.”
The Spitting Pigs illustrious machine manufacturing journey began over thirty years ago. With Stephen and Adam at the helm, the boys initially began by modifying existing machines. These hog roast machines were built around the basic spit roasting concept and were effective in their desired arena, that of outdoor and indoor mobile hog roast and spit roast catering. However, due to Steve and Adam’s extensive experience of re-fitting obsolete trucks and thus making them roadworthy, the men set to work improving, modifying and re-modelling the machines.
Equipped with saws and power-tools, it wasn’t long before the machines had effectively become different entities from the objects which they started life as. Approaching each and every problem with a positive attitude, the many design failings found within the original machines were ironed out. This resulted in the Spitting Pig Company becoming very popular, very quickly indeed.
The Growth
Back then, the founders of the Spitting Pig Company lived a life of freedom and fun, not often seen today with many of us working long hours for most days of the week. At the start, Adam and Steve would do catering jobs at functions and parties and earn enough money to go surfing in Cornwall or Devon. Using their own adapted machines at the events which they catered for, not only were people fast becoming hooked on the taste of beautifully cooked, slow roasted meat, but also highly intrigued by the lightweight, powerful and hugely capable machines that the guys were using. Through this scenario of catering and self advertisement of the machines, the interest in the mobile roasting units quickly manifested itself as orders coming in on behalf of customers wishing to become owners of the machines themselves. Utilising the skills of local engineers for a time, the men started to sell more and more machines.
Through this, investment was put back in to the development of the machines themselves. This scenario continues today just as it did 20 years ago. Soon after the first major orders had been serviced, it became apparent that manufacture was best done by us instead of contracting out to others. This way we could control every aspect of the process, from design to manufacture. Believing wholeheartedly in sound engineering, along with having a huge respect for Britain’s history as a leader of design and engineering innovation, our own manufacturing facility allowed us to implement immediate changes in the design of our machines as different catering scenarios presented themselves out in the world of catering at functions.
Spoilt For Choice!
Communication from enquiry to the day was good.
The set up was professional and Marco and his team were friendly and efficient on the day (even though battling wind & rain)
The food was of the highest quality from the meat, salads, chips and bread.
They packed up the leftovers for us and left having cleared up everything
If you are looking for stress free catering for an event we would highly recommend
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