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 [...]
Ways to Evaluate the Profitability of a Food Hall
The food hall movement is rapidly increasing in popularity across the United States. According to this report from BISNOW, food halls are expected to hit 300 total locations by the end of 2020. That's more than triple the number when food halls originally began being tracked in 2015. If you're not familiar with food halls, they come in a number of permutations. Some of these halls have flexible locations where food trucks can come in, park, and leave easily. Others merge retail with small food kiosks and restaurants and offer shared seating area for guests. Think of these food halls [...]
Are Solar and Wind Powered Food Trucks Possible?
Good news! Renewable energy has become increasingly affordable and practical over the past half decade. This means mobile food owners that want to utilize more environmentally-friendly power have more options now than ever before! Keep in mind that while the progress of renewable technologies has been in hyper drive in recent years, renewable energy is still mostly used as a supplemental source of energy for most food truck owners that use it. We recommend that even if you install solar panels on top of your truck to capture energy, you'll still want a generator installed as well. At the very [...]
The Eight Greatest Food Truck Memes of All Time
Memes are images that include a funny or entertaining message. No doubt you've seen examples of memes shared on social media platforms like Facebook or Instagram. Meme gained an incredible amount of popularity since they can be quickly consumed and easily shared on social media. Memes were first created around pop culture topics like television shows, politics, and news items and due to the increasingly popularity of the industry food trucks as well. In today's post, we wanted to compile and organize some of the best food truck memes we've found across the internet. Not surprisingly, there are some pretty [...]
Are Food Truck Owners Required to Get a CDL?
Are you required to get a Commercial Driver's License or CDL if you drive a food truck? In most situations, you don't need a CDL to operate a food truck. A standard Class D driver's license issued by the state you live is sufficient to legally drive and operate a food truck. There are of course always exceptions to this general guideline. We will spend the rest of the post exploring some of the rare situations where you might actually need a CDL to drive a food truck. If you're unsure, make sure you contact the Department of Motor Vehicles [...]
How to Start a Healthy Juice Bar Food Truck in 2019
Happy 2019! The start of a new year always marks a time for reflection and looking ahead to the future. Some of the top resolutions you'll find each year is the goal to eat better and get healthier overall. According to a 2017 poll by YouGov, eating healthier is actually at the very top of the resolution list, tied with saving more money and working out. While eating better is a common goal it's not as easy to accomplish as you might already know. Eating consistently healthy meals means investing the the time required to meal plan, prepare and shop [...]