Macones ices & macrust pizza

Macones, Macrust & MaTreats are part of ReLu Events Ltd, a family-run mobile catering business based in Inverness, serving events, communities and private functions throughout the Highlands and beyond.

Macones Ices brings the traditional ice cream van experience with a modern twist. We serve Mr Whippy ice cream, sundaes, milkshakes, slush, pick & mix and cold drinks. As well as our regular local routes, Macones is available for events, shows, corporate days and private bookings.

Macrust Street Food is our hot-food offering, specialising in freshly prepared stone-baked pizzas alongside loaded fries and nachos. Everything is designed around good-quality, freshly prepared street food that can be served quickly at busy events.

MaTreats is our dedicated dessert and coffee offering. We serve freshly made crêpes and pancakes, Belgian waffles, chocolate-covered strawberries, warm brownies, loaded popcorn and barista-style coffees and hot drinks. It's a great addition to events where customers are looking for something sweet or a quality coffee.

What makes us different is the variety we can offer. With separate mobile units covering ice cream, hot street food, desserts and coffee, we can provide one unit for a smaller event or bring several of our brands together to create a much wider catering offering.

We're a local, family-run business that takes pride in being friendly, reliable and professional. We have experience attending everything from local community events and Highland Games to larger shows, corporate events and private functions, with the appropriate food-safety procedures, insurance and trading requirements in place.

When you choose Macones, Macrust & MaTreats, you're getting more than just a catering van. You're getting an experienced local team with a wide choice of food and treats, professional service and the flexibility to tailor what we bring to suit your event.

Great food. Great treats. Friendly service. All from one local team.

Our business started with a simple idea – to build a local, family-run business that people would recognise, trust and enjoy seeing at their local events and in their communities.

We started with Macones Ices, taking the traditional ice cream van and building our own business around it. What began with ice cream grew as we gained more experience attending events throughout the Highlands and saw opportunities to offer customers something different.

That led us to create Macrust Street Food, giving us the ability to offer freshly prepared hot food, with our stone-baked pizzas becoming the heart of the menu. From there, we continued to grow and introduced MaTreats, our dedicated dessert and coffee offering, serving everything from strawberries and Belgian waffles to crêpes, pancakes, brownies and freshly made coffee.

What inspires us is seeing people genuinely enjoy what we do. Whether it's children running out when they hear the ice cream van coming, a family enjoying pizza together at a Highland Games, or someone treating themselves to strawberries and chocolate at an event, those moments are what the business is all about for us.

Our background has been built through hands-on experience. We haven't simply created a catering company on paper – we've learned by being out there serving customers, working busy events, developing our menus and continually improving our vans, equipment and the way we operate.

Being based in Inverness, we're also proud to be a local Highland business. We attend community events, shows, Highland Games, corporate functions and private events across the area, and we've built relationships with customers and organisers who come back to us year after year.

Today, Macones, Macrust & MaTreats allow us to offer ice cream, freshly prepared street food, desserts and coffee from one family-run business.

We're always looking at what we can do next, but the reason behind the business hasn't changed: we enjoy creating great food and treats, meeting people and being part of the events and communities we serve.

Over the years, we’ve built up extensive hands-on experience in mobile catering, street trading and event catering throughout Inverness and the Highlands.

What started with Macones Ices has grown into a multi-brand mobile catering business. One of our biggest milestones was expanding from traditional ice cream vans into hot street food with the launch of Macrust, followed by MaTreats, allowing us to offer desserts and coffee alongside our ice cream and hot-food services.

Today, we operate a growing fleet of specialist catering units and have experience working at everything from local community events and private functions to Highland Games, car shows, large outdoor events and corporate bookings.

A major achievement for us has been building a business that can offer several different types of catering under one team. Depending on the event, we can provide Macones Ices, Macrust Street Food and MaTreats individually or bring multiple units together, giving organisers a much wider choice for their visitors.

We’re also proud of the number of repeat customers, event organisers and local communities that welcome us back. For us, that continued support is one of the best measures of what we’ve achieved.

We take the professional side of mobile catering seriously too. As the business has grown, we’ve continued to invest in our catering units, equipment, food-safety systems, staff training and operating procedures to ensure we can provide a safe, reliable and professional service.

While we don’t measure our success by awards, we’re proud of how far the business has come – growing from an ice cream operation into an established Highland mobile catering business with three distinctive brands and an ever-growing calendar of events.

We provide mobile catering for a wide variety of events, organisations and private clients across Inverness, the Highlands and further afield.

Our experience includes everything from smaller community gatherings to busy large-scale outdoor events. We regularly cater at Highland Games, agricultural and country shows, car and vehicle shows, community events, festivals, family fun days, charity events and seasonal celebrations.

We also work with businesses, organisations and corporate clients, providing catering for staff events, open days, celebrations and other special occasions. Our mobile setup means we can arrive fully equipped and provide a professional catering service directly on site.

For private customers, we can cater for birthdays, weddings, parties, family celebrations and other private functions, with the option of an ice cream van, hot street food, desserts and coffee depending on what best suits the occasion.

One of the advantages of choosing us is the flexibility of our three brands. Macones Ices is ideal for family and community events, Macrust Street Food provides freshly prepared hot food, while MaTreats brings desserts, sweet treats and coffee. For larger events, we can bring multiple units together to provide a broader catering selection from one trusted supplier.

We understand that every event is different, so we're happy to work with organisers to create the right setup and menu for their expected visitor numbers, location and type of event.

Whether you're organising a small private celebration or an event welcoming thousands of visitors, our aim is the same – to provide great food, friendly service and a reliable catering experience that both organisers and customers can enjoy.

We take food safety, licensing and professional standards seriously across Macones, Macrust and MaTreats.

As a mobile catering and street-trading business, we hold the appropriate Street Trader’s Licence and Environmental Health Certificate of Compliance through The Highland Council, allowing us to operate professionally within the Highland area.

Our business operates with documented food-safety management procedures, HACCP controls, risk assessments, COSHH procedures, allergen information and regular cleaning and safety checks across our catering units.

We also maintain the appropriate business and public liability insurance required for the events and locations at which we trade.

Our approach is to continually review and improve our procedures as the business grows, ensuring our vans, equipment and working practices meet the standards expected by Environmental Health, event organisers and, most importantly, our customers.

While we are not currently members of a specific professional catering body, we believe our licences, food-safety procedures, insurance and hands-on experience demonstrate our commitment to operating safely, responsibly and professionally.