7 Rules Every LA Food Truck Owner Must Know! [Checklist]
Know the rules before you start your food truck business in Los Angeles In this regulation article we’ll be covering the top 7 rules that ALL Los Angeles food truck owners must know if they are going to be running a food truck in Los Angeles. Please stay tuned to this series of articles for other cities as we publish them. The best way to stay in touch is to join our email list below in the red box. Flaming Pizza Food Truck Built by M&R Specialty Trailers and Trucks. 1. Street Signs “Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign,” you [...]
Food Truck Weddings: The Ultimate Planning Guide for 2019
How to plan for the cutest food truck wedding reception. A Super Food Truck Wedding. Food truck weddings are no longer just a trend and are now a serious and often used option for budget conscious brides or anyone with a hipster flare to them. On your most important day, you want to get the details right so we’ve put together this fantastic resource for you to reference when you’re planning your food truck wedding. The most important thing to know right off the bat is you need to plan ahead. Duh? You’re good at that, right? We [...]
Should You Take a Food Truck Training Class?
Why you should take Food Truck Classes. Running a food truck is just as hard if not harder than running a restaurant. Would you start a restaurant without any formal training? Probably not, right? You should be taking training of some sort before you get started on type of serious business endeavor. There's literally no profession or real business you can start with a realistic chance of success. Would a dentist hang up their shingle without first attending school and acquiring the necessary certifications? We certainly hope not! But for some reason there are plenty of people that think they [...]
Huntsville Shopping Center: Alabama Food Truck Park?
Huntsville Shopping Center debuts Food Truck Park If there is anything that is more trending than food trucks right now then it is certainly the “food truck parks” and if little ‘ol Huntsville, Alabama is getting one then you know we’ve hit mainstream. It’s not the fanciest of food truck park ideas as they decided to go with a mix of indoor and outdoor space with only a little character and styling but just having one helps move the industry forward another inch. If you love food truck fare, but aren’t fond of long lines or extreme temperatures, a new [...]
The Brief History of Food Trucks in America (1691 – Present)
Food trucks in America are considered to be a brand new movement. However, mobile food has been alive and kicking as far back as the 1600s when street cart owners were considered by some to be unfair competition for brick-and-mortar restaurant owners. In this post, we take a brief look at the history of food trucks in America. From the first street vendors in the 1600s, to the chuck wagons of the Wild West, all the way to the modern gourmet food trucks that we're familiar with today. 1691 – New York City (previously New Amsterdam) starts regulating street vendors selling [...]
Video Tour: Sky's Pizza Pie Trailer Container Conversion
When Sky's Pizza Pie based out of Pensacola, Florida, wanted to establish a mobile sales channel they turned to M&R Specialty Trailers and Trucks to custom build a rolling pizza parlor. Below is a video of how M&R Specialty Trailers and Trucks executed the basic layout of the trailer according to the client's concept before delivering the unit to the customer to make the finishing touches on their archetypal mobile pizza parlor. About Sky's Pizza Pie Sky's Pizza Pie is known for their appetizing New York Style Pizza made hot and fresh daily. Voted as the Best Pizza on the Coast [...]
How to Create a Weekly Operations Schedule For Your Food Truck
Before you roll your food truck concept out into the world, it's a smart idea to build out a tentative daily or weekly operations schedule. This is also referred to "daily service" by those in the industry. This operations schedule will give you a sense of the frequency you plan to work and the days you plan to take off for downtime. One mistake that beginning mobile food vendors make is that they don't build a plan of where and when they plan to vend. The other frequently made mistake is that they don't build out enough prospective locations to [...]
Is It Possible To Start a Food Boat Business?
Food trucks transformed how food is served on land. But could the same culinary disruption be about to happen on boats as well? Is it even possible to start a food boat business? In fact, there are businesses that generate revenue in a similar way to food trucks, but with a boat instead. Usually these aqua based business operate only a short time of the year during peak tourist season at a lake or a busy harbor when other there are many other vessels in the water. Here's how the business model works. Most of these so called "food boats" [...]
Roy Choi Proves There's No Limit to Food Truck Business Potential
Roy Choi proves there's no limit to the type of food business you can launch with a food truck. Choi's story is been well told. Starting in Los Angeles with a small food truck serving Korean tacos, he is credited with helping to launch the modern food truck movement as we know it. Now, only a decade after getting started, Choi has evolved into a celebrity chef with books, a fleet of food trucks, and now a collection of BBQ sauces available only at William's Sonoma. Choi's growth is astounding and impossible to replicate, but there's plenty of business lessons [...]
Video Tour: Russel's Rib Shack Combo Smoker Trailer
Watch the video tour below with Russel's Rib Shack new combo smoker trailer based out of Atlanta, Georgia. Anyone with in the ATL area would be wise to look up Russel for world-class competition-level BBQ delivered to their upcoming event. Video Tour Unlike a lot of other BBQ trailers or smokers you find on the market, we build a custom trailer from the ground up that are specifically designed to fit the equipment you need on the unit. Many builders will buy pre-made trailers and essentially play a game of Tetris to fit all your desired equipment on-board a certain sized [...]