The Peanut Van
Van in South Burnett

And for the total of the next 8 years that Ruth worked the van, she never even made a basic wage. By this time, though, Ruth felt she'd gained a good ample insight into customers' needs to take up the challenge. To stock only the greatest quality peanuts and souvenirs To treat our customers as the valued people they really are. Ruth old her seed capital to get the van painted, quickly introduced considerable new peanut lines and began stocking souvenirs. Ruth's friends and family pitched in to assist her and by the final of the first year Ruth found she was (finally!) The new lines she introduced also proved popular. So three years later in 1980 she was qualified to retire the venerable Murrumba Star and replace it with the give van, which was custom built to her own specifications. She also introduced The Peanut Van's beginning logo (see picture below) and began marketing the business in sincere around this time. But in 1984 the van was flooded out twice and broken into numerous times. So in 1985, The Peanut Van began buying and preparing its own nuts (rather than simply retailing other people's peanuts). This gave us total quality regulate over all our peanut products for the very first time. So rather than do everything herself (as she'd mostly been doing up to that time) she took on excess staff to oversee the serving and packing. This also created numerous fresh jobs in a town that desperately required them at that time. The after year, though, the Minister for Police gave Ruth 24 hours notice to shift the van after an anonymous complaint about its location was made to the Department of Main Roads. Again, Ruth fought the decision and won. This fresh service took off like a rocket and within 12 months of its introduction Peanut Van customers from all over Australia who'd discovered the van by chance on a trip through Kingaroy found they were now easily able to reorder the superior peanuts they'd ever tasted without needing to make a return visit. Robbie and Chris Patch as we looked in 199 when we took over The Peanut Van. Peanuts have been around since the daybreak of time and appear to have first been domesticated in Peru in South America. A peanut production line at the Peanut Company Of Australia in the 1950s. In those days maximum processing labor was done by hand! Over the after 20 years, however, peanut crops slowly began to expand. The South Burnett region (which is now Australia's prime peanut growing area) put in the first test planting of an acre that same year. Australia's annual peanut production continued to rise from the 1940s through to the 1980s as the nation developed a taste for this incredible nut and all its derivative products. Peanuts are now also grown in the Bundaberg and chillers areas the reason why we opened our second Peanut Van there!.