Meet our suppliers

Meet: Particularly Good Potatoes

“We’ve proudly worked alongside Fat Hippo for over a decade now, supplying the particularly good chips you enjoy each time you visit one of their restaurants. As they have grown and their demand increased, so have we! Today they have their very own 23 acre potato field on Turvelaws Farm up in Wooler, which allows us to produce over 300 tonnes of potatoes just for them each year! With sustainability always in mind, we farm, store, chip (to their unique specs) seal for freshness then distribute direct to them each week. We say it takes 5 months to grow, 5 minutes to cook and just 5 seconds to eat the perfect chip!”

Mark Robson, Founder + Farmer

Meet: Bakehouse Artisan Bakery

"Bakehouse Artisan Bakery has been proudly supplying Fat Hippo’s brioche since they opened in 2011. We know the best burgers deserve the best buns, freshly made from the best quality ingredients, which is why we’re trusted to supply Fat Hippo with over 1.2 million fresh brioche buns a year! Our baking day starts at 3am as nearly the full process is done by hand, and takes our team of talented bakers just over 10 hours from mixing to baking. We have 8 bakers working solely on brioche, with 4 baking, 1 manning the oven and 3 slicing and sealing. We annually use over 60 tonnes of flour, 6.5 tonnes of butter and 250k eggs to make the FH brioche. The key is that they must be robust enough to not fall apart, but still soft enough to absorb all of those lovely, flavoursome, burger juices. Over the years we’ve made them black, grey, red, green, we’re always excited to hear of what challenge their BurgerLab will come up for us next!"

Simon Wake, Owner + Baker

Meet: Harvey and Brockless

“We’ve been working as a trusted supplier for Fat Hippo for 7 years now supplying cheese and dairy items before they entrusted us to produce their top secret, signature, namesake sauce. With the recipe remaining unchanged for over a decade, it takes 20 people around 2 hours, using an undisclosed amount of secret herbs and spices to produce. Distributing over 1 tonne of FH sauce to their restaurants per week, we produce both their classic and vegan FH sauce, as well as their Hellacious Hippo Hot sauce, all of which are regarded as a pillar of their trademark taste.”

Russell Byrne, Fat Hippo Account Manager

Meet: Allendale Brewery

“Allendale Brewery proudly produce and supply Fat Hippo’s in-house signature beers, Fat Hippo IPA and Hillbilly Lager.  Working closely with the FH team since early 2014, we started out supplying them with a selection of our best selling beers, before collaborating with them to create their very own unique recipes, one IPA and one lager. Each craft batch is carefully handmade, with the process from brew to canning varying between 2-4 weeks approx. Nowadays we produce the equivalent of 850k pints a year exclusively for them. Burgers and beers are the perfect combo!”

Jenny Hogarth, Allendale Brewery