Family waits for hours inside service station to get one thing

The queues were out of the door15:22, 23 Jul 2026A family waited inside of a service station to bag one of the 100 free items being given away. Preston-born brothers Jacob and Harley Nelson officially opened their second SpudBros site in Merseyside at around 12pm today (July 23).‌The team welcomed its first set of customers inside Beacon 62 Service Station, an EG On The Move forecourt located at Coppice Lane in Prescot, by giving away 100 free potatoes. The queue exceeded 100 people by 12.10pm, as customers turned up to be the first to try the potatoes at the new site.‌SpudBros’ journey began in 1955 when a hot potato cart first opened on Preston’s Flag Market. Decades later, Jacob and Harley transformed the family tradition into one of the UK’s most recognisable food brands.‌The siblings