What to Look for in a Food Truck Concession Hood System
The heart and soul of a kitchen line can be debated up and down, at least when considering the purely mechanical aspect of it, but one can say with full confidence that the backbone is none other than one’s Hood System. The angled vented metal thingies hanging over every line of ranges and other cooking rigs, no indoor kitchen can properly function without these behemoths overhead, and that includes Food Trucks. These are the chimneys and air vacuums of our culinary world, sucking up all steam, smoke, and other cast-offs from the hours we spend cooking up and through their [...]
Seven Unique Uses for Mobile Medical Units
As the world of mobile businesses grows, ever more does the ability for different avenues of transforming trailers, trucks, and semis into places to house products and stores one never would have imagined before. Nowhere is this more evident than one of the newest growing builds, Mobile Medical Units. These are basically creations of large vehicles, everything from trailers and small sprinter vans to motorcoaches and semis (though usually, the bigger the better considering what needs to be fit inside), that have their insides completely done up on the inside with exam tables, surgery areas, comfy waiting chairs, or whatever [...]
Seven Non-Profits Using Food Trucks to Raise Money For a Cause
Charity through Food Trucks has found its place as an officially accepted and successful method of integrating ways to help others through today’s trends. Heck, people (in the Midwest at least) are still talking about the Make-a-Wish kid who used his to serve people through Food Trucks in Minnesota. In spirit of this, and to spread their names further for people to potentially explore, here are seven non-profits using food trucks to raise money or otherwise just spread the good. We’ve included a simple description of each of these wonderful people and organizations, but we heavily encourage all reading to [...]
10 Tips For Hiring a New Food Truck Employee
It’s only in the smallest and most unique operations, like hot dog stands an pastry carts, that a mobile food vendor will be able to run their unit completely by themselves or just with whatever friend/partner they’re starting out with. And if you’re actually successful and last for the long-run, then there’s no avoiding it: sooner or later, you WILL have to hire someone. As simple as the particular role may be, there are always things to be aware of and fully consider in choosing the person or persons to better fill your team… without also destroying it. Here are [...]
The Ultimate BBQ Business Plan Template
Building up a Business Plan for a BBQ company truly is no different or harder than for any restaurant or catering idea; you’re just looking at a lot more considerations on the cost of Smokers instead of ranges/ovens, and most of the food cost will likely come from pig and cow. Like your prized recipes, this business needs to be taken low and slow, planned out over at least three years as you grow into a point where you can finally break even and solidify the brand. There are plenty of resources and examples to creating one of these, ideally, [...]
The Ultimate Food Truck Equipment Checklist
If you’re lucky enough to be in a situation where you can have your Food Truck built custom-designed, or have at least bought something pre-used with an empty interior that needs filling, then you can fill it with the exact equipment configuration that YOU need and want to operate your truck’s specific prep, cooking, and food service style in a smooth, easy, and well-executed fashion. There’s a big list of things that need choosing from, and unless your builder presents you with a full list of all the options it can be a pain to find and go through every [...]
Making the Choice of What Food to Serve from your Food Truck
Most potential entrepreneurs getting into the Food Truck business have a set goal and idea, start to finish, about what food they want to serve. It’s usually the first step that gets the wheels turning towards their new dream career and lifestyle. But there are still some owners who, even when mostly done, have almost no idea concerning the final menu. Whether this is based out of a base drive focusing on the business aspects and potential of the food truck idea itself or their original plans had to be completely wiped free due to unforeseen circumstances or a harsh [...]
The Six Most Profitable BBQ Business Ideas
In this world of growing food interest and entrepreneurial spirit, the drive to determine your own lifetime career, work for yourself, and potentially build an empire and legacy to be remembered by has, and will continue to, spurn on new edible businesses. Gems are discovered every day as people explore their creative ideas, setting their life’s income around ideas unique, set into decades of tradition, or a combination of the two. And what do these often come out of? Why, nothing more than a person’s love and hobby in making delicious things that people love; or a drive to learn [...]
Mobile Food News Roundup for June, 2015
We’re starting off summer now, but the end of spring found us many new instances of food truck regulation changes, debates, new talks and plans for healthy futures. Here are some of the main articles and happenings in the world of food trucks during the month of May. East Coast Mobile Health Labeling – Boston’s Inspectional Services Department may create a system sometime soon to publicly rate the cleanliness and food safety of each restaurant and food truck, to be displayed via letter grade. Hot Truck Moving Debate – questions are rung up as Ithaca, NY council considers whether to [...]
Starting up a Blog or Food Publication to Help your Food Truck Business
Figuring out Social Media Strategies for a food truck business is an ongoing process; we’ve talked a bit about the main ones and considerations when starting out in a Previous Article, including the importance of staying up to date on topics. As time goes on, you’ll always want to figure new ways to keep people interested in staying in touch with your business’s main pages and up to date on changes, promotions, etc. Along with this, doing things to curb other’s to discover and explore the business through the web through unique methods is just as vital, bringing them to [...]