The 8 Steps to Starting Your Full-Time Ice Cream Truck Business
A swelteringly hot August day, on a quiet street anywhere in suburban America. The kids are too hot to even muster the energy to turn on the sprinklers, and the adults are losing patience with the incessant whines of “I’m bored,” as Summer vacation enters what feels like it’s 1000thday. The familiar tinkle of an ice cream truck horn is heard in the distance, and just like that, all of the bickering and activity stops; as the jingle gets closer, the kids start begging for a few dollars to buy a Rocket Pop, or a King Cone, or a soft [...]
Spring Cleaning Checklist for Food Truck Vendors
Spring is finally here! If you live in the northern United States or anywhere in Canada, May is the month you can be certain no more white stuff will hit the ground until fall. In addition to warmer weather, it's the beginning of the busy season for food truck vendors. The spring and summer after all is when the annual outdoor events happen: outdoor concerts, food truck rallies, weddings, baseball games, farmer's markets. If your food truck has been locked in storage all winter, it's time to get the unit deep cleaned for service in advance of your first event. [...]
Five Tips for Creating Food Truck Logo Designs That Aren't Boring
Whether you own and operate a mobile food business already or in the planning phase, coming up with a professional looking logo can be a challenge. After all, you've probably got all sorts of ideas for the menu and source of ingredients for food items. But coming up with a logo that accurately represents a brand isn't easy if you're not an artist or graphic designer by trade. Fortunately there are all sorts of new tools and options for ordinary folks that make the process of creating your brands logo easier and more affordable than they were 5 - 10 [...]
Four Legged Foodie Dog Food Sprinter Van Video Tour
One of the greatest privileges we've had since founding M&R Specialty Trailers and Trucks over a decade and a half ago is helping entrepreneurs get their start in innovative business categories. A pair of entrepreneurs we had the opportunity to work with recently are from Four Legged Foodie based out of the Atlanta, Georgia area. The goal of Four Legged Foodie is to provide human-grade quality food for dogs. In fact, as you'll see in the video, Bob Pierson, co-owner of M&R Specialty Trailers and Trucks promises to sample some of the food himself. We will post a follow up [...]
How to Plan a Profitable Ice Cream Trucking Vending Route
Summer is fast approaching. When we reflect on the summer season, we're reminded of baseball games, lazy summer days on the water, and of course ice cream trucks! If starting an ice cream truck is part of your summer plans we've got you covered. In today's post, we will help you build a specific vending route that will have you bringing in profits all summer long. This piece is based on our 15+ years experience working with customers starting ice cream trucks to shaved ice trailers and everything in between. In fact, if you sell just about any frozen summer [...]
Five Breakfast Food Truck Ideas Worth Waking Up For
Offering breakfast service on a food truck can be a major revenue source even though if regularly overlooked in the industry. In today's post, we evaluate some of the most popular breakfast menu ideas we've seen work in the A.M. so you can add them to your menu. One thing we want to point out is even if you don't plan to operate a breakfast truck exclusively, many trucks are able to adapt their menus to serve the most important meal of the day. Being able to change the menu for breakfast will open up all sorts of opportunities from [...]
Food Truck Floor Options: Everything You Need to Know
Researching the best type of flooring install inside your food truck or concession trailer? In today's post, we address everything you need to consider before investing in the floor of your food truck. In addition to sharing the best options, we layout some of pitfalls to watch out for with the most popular food truck flooring types. At M&R Specialty Trailers and Trucks, we've been manufacturing concession trailers for over 15 years and have worked on literally hundreds of concession units during this time frame. After working on so many of these units and even making repairs to concession trailers [...]
Important Considerations When Installing Food Truck Exhaust Hoods
When outfitting a food truck, a lot of the same commercial equipment you would use in a coffee shop or restaurant can be installed in a mobile unit. But there are some pieces of equipment you should never be taken from a restaurant and installed onto your food truck. One example of this is with the exhaust hood. An exhaust hood, sometimes called a range hood, is the device that's positioned directly above your oven and cooking area to provide ventilation. This piece of equipment removes smoke, airborne grease, and other fumes from the food truck. Exhaust hoods also have [...]
Three Ways to Design Your Own Food Truck and Layout Online
Thinking about designing a food truck yourself? The good news is you've got options on ways you can approach this important project. Some of the options require zero technical knowledge or fancy tools at all, while others do require a certain level of experience. Without further delay, let's outline the options so you can choose the best route for your situation! Before we dive into the meat of this post, one thing most people don't realize is that when you create the layout for your food truck, you need to plan for more than just the kitchen area. Many chefs [...]
Health Exam Units Provide Free Medical Assistance to Low-Income Communities
For individuals living in low-income communities it can be difficult to get access to health care services. Admittance to the most basic healthcare services can be a struggle due to transportation, getting time off work, lack of insurance, or not enough cash for the co-pay. Mobile Exam Unit in The Bronx. To help address this problem across New York City, PHARMA teamed up with the City of New York and U.S. Mobile Health Exams to help underserved residents across in different Burroughs across New York. The goal of this innovative program called Roadmap to Health is to provide free medical [...]