Overview

• The TikTok vendor is serving at The Bus Yard on Crosby Beach from August 18 to 22, operating 11am to 8pm.
• Families arrived from across the region, with the first customer at 8.30am and the queue described as 50 to 100 people deep.
• A live feed on his TikTok account showed long lines on the beach as people waited to try his jacket potatoes.
• Ben Newman films customers’ bring-your-own toppings for TikTok, poses for selfies, records video messages, and gives the first and last potatoes away for free.
• In a related development, fellow TikTok sellers SpudBros are opening a larger Liverpool shop in Queen Square in the former Costa Coffee unit.