Interview with Entrepreneurial Chef Magazine Founder Shawn Wenner
Learn more about Entrepreneurial Chef Founder Shawn Wenner. It's a stark reality that you'll need more than "good food" to start a thriving restaurant or food truck. You'll also need to develop business and marketing chops to keep your business open for the long haul. Unfortunately, these important skills aren't usually taught in culinary school. Enter Shawn Wenner, who after almost 10-years of working at a culinary arts school chose to start the Entrepreneurial Chef, a magazine and educational platform created to help close the gap between food and entrepreneurship. In today's exclusive Q/A interview, we learn why [...]
Custom Built Bubble Tea Food Trucks for Sale in Florida
Bubble tea got it's start in Taiwan in the 1980s, but has quickly become an internationally consumed beverage served in many Vietnamese and Asian-inspired restaurants around the world. This beverage is also commonly called pearl milk tea, boba juice, or simply boba. If you're one of the few people left that isn't sure what exactly bubble tea is, you've probably seen it. The beverage is quickly identified by the "boba" or tapioca balls that rest at the bottom of the drink. The image below displays a variety of popular bubble tea flavors, including green tea, honey dew, mango, and more. [...]
How to Create Smart Objectives for an Early-Stage Mobile Food Business
As your business grows and matures, where you invest time and energy needs to change. Too many first time vendors get overwhelmed when they find out just how many steps it takes to operate a food business. Others get paralyzed just trying to figure out what to work to prioritize first. Don't let this happen to you! The goal of this post is to help you set specific business objectives to throw your time and energy into when the time is right. You don't need to complete the steps of starting and growing a business all at once. In fact, [...]
Can't Take a Vacation from Your Food Business? This is the One Thing You Need.
If you own a food business such as a restaurant it can be difficult (some may say impossible) to find the time to take a single day off, much less an entire week of vacation. When owners finally pull themselves away from work, they find themselves thinking about their business, what needs to be done, and everything that might be slipping through the cracks without their supervision. Longterm this is not a healthy way to run a business or run your personal life. Today's post outlines how one food entrepreneur was able to finally get his time back and be [...]
How to Select the Best Name For Your Concession Trailer
What's in a name? It's an age-old question posed by William Shakespeare in arguably his most popular work, Romeo and Juliette. As famously quoted from the book, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." While this question posed by Shakespeare is fascinating on a philosophical level, when it comes to selecting a business name for your concession trailer there's not much to think about. The name you choose matters! When you're at any event, customers may only take a split second to understand what you serve and if it's something they want. If you selected a name [...]
The Ultimate List of Commonly Installed Food Truck Appliances
At M&R Specialty Trailers and Trucks we've installed just about every appliance imaginable into a food truck or concession trailer. This list compiles the most commonly requested appliances to be installed onboard a mobile food unit. If you don't find the device you need on this list, not to worry. Our motto is: "If you can dream it, we can build it." We've received countless one-of-a-kind requests during our 15+ years in the custom manufacturing industry and welcome the opportunity to execute your vision. Beyond just appliances, check out our previously published equipment checklist here for information about ovens, refrigerators, [...]
Two Ways Hiring a Consultant Can Help Grow Your Food Truck Business
Today's blog post features one food truck / restaurant owners experience deciding whether or not to hire a restaurant consultant for his business and the lessons learned. We hope you enjoy this special post! I expected hard work when I started a food truck business. What I didn’t see coming were the mental challenges I would need to conquer to be successful. I think of these as my “mental blocks.” These blocks are the things preventing me from reaching the next level in my business. My first mental block was overcome when I decided the approach my business not as [...]
Video: Isuzu Rolling Grind Coffee Truck Conversion
Although Isuzu's aren't typically outfitted to food trucks, it can be done! This truck will be the mobile unit of the Rolling Grind coffee truck. This video walk-through takes you on a guided vehicle before it's been wrapped so the exterior will look different once this is complete. We hope this video gives you some great ideas of what can be done with an Isuzu! As you can see on this Isuzu the kitchen area is not connected to the cab. On most food trucks these two areas are connected so keep that in mind if this is important to [...]
Would You Accept Bitcoin on Your Food Truck?
Would you accept Bitcoin for your food truck? Bitcoin... You may have seen it reported in the news or heard relatives discussing it at the holiday dinner table. In the second half of 2017 to the beginning of 2018, the topic seems almost inescapable if you pay any attention to financial news reports. Some experts believe cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are the future of money and a more efficient way to store value than in banks. Others like investing legend Warren Buffet, believe these new forms of money will "certainly end badly" and this is nothing more than a [...]
Custom-Built Audio Test & Hearing Exam Medical Trailer Tour
Mobile audiology clinics are an efficient way for audiologists to bring important healthcare to the patients that need these services the most. Whether you want to serve senior citizens that may have difficultly traveling, patients that live in remote areas, employees on a job-site, or even help in crisis situations, a medical trailer designed to provide audio tests and hearing exams can help you accomplish these goals. At M&R Specialty Trailers and Trucks, we custom design and build medical trailers with your specific needs in mind. Before we begin work on any project, we sit down with you in person [...]