A bar and toastie truck entrepreneur has taken over the old Brambles unit in Middlesbrough - as her rustic food delivery service booms during lockdown.

House-bound families looking for a treat during quarantine are loving Ted and Ginger's Camembert boards, out-of-the-box rustic sourdough pizzas and parmos - with one customer ringing 287 TIMES to place and order.

Mum-of-three Kelly Robson says she's been 'inundated', now she's taken over Brambles' large former food production unit on Johnson Street.

It was used by the famous Teesside firm in the 1990s before it moved to even bigger premises at Riverside Park.

Kelly is now employing 15 staff.

Ted and Ginger's Delivered - Fiorentina pizza

The 30-year-old, from Billingham was 'devastated' when her Stockton bar eatery Ted and Ginger's was forced to close last month due to lockdown - but she adapted.

Starting with toastie truck That Toastie Hype in 2018, she opened the bar in Regency Mall before Christmas, but then coronavirus hit.

Ted and Ginger's Delivered was "always in the pipeline" but covid-19 "speeded it up and it's just rocketed", she says.

She's planning "up-market Sunday lunches", a vegan menu and is also taking pre-orders for special occasions when "people are stuck at home but want to celebrate".

"People are ordering as presents, or just a treat," she says.

"The prices are good and the food is unreal so it's a break from the normal takeaways.

"It's delivery only, contact free, no collections.

"We have been inundated.

"One guy rang, he had tried 287 times to get through. "

Ted and Ginger's Delivered has become popular with families wanting a lockdown treat

Closing her bar was upsetting, Kelly added.

"I opened and it was booming," she said. "It was devastating to close it - as I can imagine it has been for a lot of people.

"I was panicking, I had to tell staff 'I don't know what's going to happen with your jobs'.

"But what do you do? You have to adapt.

"I'm lucky, we had such a great Christmas I've been able to hold us up a little bit.

"People are happy to be supporting local businesses, they want to keep people in jobs."

Brambles, which had a cafe on Corporation Road and the food production unit at the back, became something of a Teesside institution.

It all started when husband and wife team Lynne and John Pearce opened their modest coffee shop on Middlesbrough’s Corporation Road in 1990.

It became so successful, they set up a sandwich factory on the Riverside Industrial Estate and the couple built a multi-million pound empire.