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Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Tasty Kraut food truck owners return to normal business after losing food truck in explosion
SAN ANGELO, Texas (Concho Valley Homepage) — The owner of Tasty Kraut, a German cuisine food truck, Pia and her husband Holger Buchwalder had only been living their American dream for a few weeks before they lost their food truck in an explosion. 'We came back Monday and the whole thing exploded like the whole roof of the building everything was gone…until now we don't know what really happened,' Holger said. He said insurance money helped cover some of the repairs, but they needed more to be able to fully reopen. 'A friend of ours said start a go fund me, so we did that it did really good people from San Angelo friends… people we don't know friends from back in Germany…everybody sent money, so we were pretty lucky,' Holger said. Just four weeks after the explosion, Holger said they were able to purchase a new-used trailer to get his wife's business back up and running. ''With the help of the people I started to look around for another trailer and the same place we bought the first one they had this used one their and it was in our price range, so we bought it within that week,' Holger said. Now with their business back, Holger said he and his wife are able to continue living their American dream and begin talks about what's next. 'I would like a place where we could stay, we could put some tables there and still could use it as a food trailer that goes to events, but during the week we have one spot in town with some tables around so in the future we will look for a place like that,' Holger said. This new American dream that is now a possibility he says is thanks to the friends they know and the supporters they don't. 'We had a lot of help from Germany too from friends, but I think over here it was people we hardly know and they helped us and call us and say how do you feel do you need anything so that was just really good,' Holger said. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
22-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
‘Brat' back: Tasty Kraut returns following food trailer explosion
SAN ANGELO, Texas (Concho Valley Homepage) — Four weeks after the Tasty Kraut German cuisine food trailer exploded, the business has been brought back to life to serve San Angelo residents once again. Here's how the owners rebounded from a 'wurst'-case scenario. The Tasty Kraut food trailer exploded during the night of March 23 while being stored at the Affordable Self Storage site on United States Highway 67. Although it was reported by the Dove Creek Fire Department that no one was injured by the blast, photos shared online by The Tasty Kraut showed that the trailer sustained extreme damage. 'There's nothing left,' the business said in a Facebook post published the morning after the explosion. The Tasty Kraut — which Holger Buchwalder, husband of business owner Pia Buchwalder, told Concho Valley Homepage was his family's 'future here in the United States' — was only a few months old at the time of the explosion, having been opened by the Buchwalders in January 2025. The explosion occurred just after The Tasty Kraut's first week in San Angelo, with the business operating in Mertzon before that time. RELATED: Concho Valley food trailer 'exploded' in storage The loss didn't deter the Buchwalder family, however. Holger Buchwalder said that it is his wife's dream to provide West Texans a taste of Germany, a dream that has been decades in the making. 'She's a chef for over 30 years, so her dream is to bring German food to West Texas,' Holger Buchwalder said. 'So it's not only the business side of it … it's also fulfilling part of a dream.' Holger Buchwalder shared that the people of San Angelo helped them along the way, with thousands of dollars in donations from a GoFundMe fundraiser assisting in the purchase of a new food trailer and support from the community aiding in the business's recovery. The Buchwalders also received support from overseas, as friends and family in Germany spurred them along. Weeks after the explosion, it was announced that The Tasty Kraut was going to resume operations in a new food trailer on April 22, bringing back its usual menu of German foods as well as a new item: 'Bratkartoffeln,' also known as German fries. Holger Buchwalder said that, with The Tasty Kraut now back in operation, the business will begin to spend more time in San Angelo. He said the explosion was a bump in the road for their food trailer. 'It was just one stone in our way, we just get over it and do it again,' Holger Buchwalder said. The Buchwalders haven't forgotten the people who got them to this point, though. Holger Buchwalder stated that his family is making plans to give back to the San Angelo community. He also thanked the town's residents for the outpouring of care they received in the weeks following the explosion. 'I can't thank enough for all of the help and all of the support,' Holger Buchwalder said. 'I don't have any words to thank the people. That's why I want to come up with something to show appreciation.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
