She’s served coffee to the stars.
Joss Lodge, of mobile coffee service Go-Go Gaggia, kept actor Michael Palin and other cast members of TV drama Remember Me topped up with coffee when they were filming in Slaithwaite. The ghost story is being screened on BBC1 on Sundays.
She came across the crew filming in the village – and ended up spending a fascinating two weeks delivering fresh ground coffee to the actors and crew at a number of Colne Valley locations.
“I just said to one of the guys ‘I don’t suppose anyone would be interested in coffees?’ and he was straight onto his radio.
“From then on, they’d text me mid-morning to tell me where they were going to be and I would go and find them.”
She said: “Michael was so keen he even asked if I would go to Scarborough with them for the coastal scenes.”
Its the latest success for Joss, a barrister turned barista, since she won the Examiner’s Local Business Accelerator Award three years ago with her mobile coffee franchise idea.
Now there are five franchises – including the one Joss runs – with franchisees covering Calderdale, Leeds, Greater Manchester and Preston. Joss has also had enquiries from would-be franchisees as far afield as Newcastle and Maidstone – raising hopes that Go-Go Gaggia can go national.
Slaithwaite-based Joss designed the innovative and environmentally friendly service herself by converting SMART cars into strikingly-liveried mobile coffee shops – complete with Gaggia coffee machine, grinder, water tank, battery and stock.
She said: “The concept of Go-Go Gaggia was developed over a bottle of wine one evening with the family. We discussed the lack of ‘quality coffee’ for commuters, especially at train stations, in business parks and at events.”
