The entrepreneur, who is 38, spent six months selling wings and chicken burgers in a pop-up kitchen of a pub, before setting up a stall as part of Street Feast.
(Picture: Richard Thacker, Wing Fest)Richard Thacker loves chicken wings so much he’s made a career out of it. The entrepreneur eats wings “four or five times a week” — either testing them out at restaurants and traders around the UK who want to join his chicken food festival, Wing Fest, “or ordering them on Deliveroo, or just nipping out for wings. Or cooking them. I don’t get sick of them... ever.”
Thacker grew up around chickens, working on his family’s Norfolk and Sussex chicken farms in his teenage years — “everything from egg collecting, to filling the sheds with chicks, to the processing and the packing line”. But by his late twenties, he was working in travel sales for Groupon when he was hit by, er, wing-spiration.
