Bartenders on Wheels

Entrepreneur Sky Nobles focuses on collaboration over competition with her business, Fizz & Foam.

Nobles established Fizz & Foam as Tallahassee’s first mobile bar service in 2020, renovating a small “truckster” to serve drinks on tap and create a unique centerpiece for events. Alongside bar service and custom beverages on tap, Fizz & Foam also offers a rentable cart for blended drink service.

Sky Nobles. Photo courtesy of Fizz & Foam

Nobles works directly with customers to plan the perfect drink for each event, seeking not only in-season flavors personalized to their taste but also sourcing ingredients locally. Fizz & Foam does not directly sell alcohol, so Nobles works with several vendors in the community.

“For all of our vendors, the client pays them for the alcohol or product on top of paying our bartending service fee,” Nobles said. “The client is essentially supporting locally in every way!”

Working with the community

Nobles works with many local businesses, but her one-stop shop for retail beer kegs is Riccardo’s, a popular Italian restaurant. Wine kegs are sourced from Poco Vino, a woman-owned wine bar. Even edible flowers for drink garnish are sourced from a local woman-owned backyard gardener, Love Blooms Garden.

Photo courtesy of Fizz & Foam

“I work with a lot of local people, and that’s something I try to push — spread the love locally,” Nobles said. “In this day and age, every single dollar counts, so it makes us feel good to be able to work with the local businesses.”

Working with local businesses also allows for a more personalized experience. While corporate retailers offer a finite selection of products, Noble’s vendors take the extra time and effort to make sure the client has what they want.

“They’ll find that person what they want and like, and I think that’s nice,” Nobles said. “It makes our clients feel special and that they are being heard.”

Giving Back

Fizz & Foam also finds ways to give back to the community with donations and participation at events.

Nobles is Tallahassee born and raised, a graduate of Florida State University and her “roots are so Tallahassee.”

Fizz & Foam attends the Tallahassee Community College Foundation’s Cleaver & Cork event every year. Nobles donates items and volunteers her time for foundations such as the Tree House Foundation, Whole Child Leon, FSU College of Law, Maclay School, Advent Parish Day School and more.

For local businesses, schools and organizations, Fizz & Foam offers a “Tallahassee Love Discount” as another way to give back.

“It’s important to us,” Nobles said. “I try to give back the best I can because our community supports us so much.”

Sharing Success

Fizz & Foam, a supplier of bartending services, sources flowers used as a garnish from a backyard gardener. Photo courtesy of Fizz & Foam

Nobles did not stop at the success of her own business.

In addition to its mobile bar services, Fizz & Foam offers business courses to teach up-and-coming entrepreneurs how they, too, can successfully launch their own mobile bar business.

“I teach mobile bar courses,” Nobles said. “That’s actually blown up recently, which is insane. I’ve taught about 50 classes in the past month for people all over the U.S. — even somebody in Peru, a few people in Canada — about how they can start a mobile bar.”

Fizz & Foam pops up monthly at local businesses. Find them at Brown’s Kitchen, Hearth & Soul and more.