A family in Newcastle is running a deli with a difference, with a business solely dedicated to serving up mouth-watering gourmet Scotch eggs.
The idea for The Yolker began when Kelvin Linstead from Lemington began to notice a pattern at his other business, Maximo’s Deli. Opened in 2017 and named after Kelvin’s son, the family-run deli offers the whole works from pies to pastries - but it was always their Scotch eggs that flew off the shelves.
Noticing that the deli’s Scotch eggs were particularly popular with customers, Kelvin, 39, and his family decided just before the first Covid-19 lockdown to launch a separate Scotch egg business. Things skyrocketed as soon as The Yolker was born - with the small team suddenly going from making around 10 Scotch eggs a week to 2,000.
