[New Video] Catering BBQ Trailer with 3-Shelf Warmer Box & Canopy
This video features a custom-built BBQ trailer for a customer based out of central Florida. This trailer will be used primarily for catering events and includes some nice bells, whistles, and innovative ideas that you won't find on the average BBQ concession rig. In this video, we give you a 360 degree tour of the build and detailed demonstration of the different features you'll find in this rig. Video Timeline [0:00 - 1:00] Introduction to the 5-foot wide BBQ concession trailer. The width helps support the retractable canopy or roof system on the trailer to protect the pit master from [...]
How Much Do Food Truck Vendors Make at Fairs & Festivals on Average?
Ever been waiting in line at a fair or festival and wonder how much those food trucks or concession stands are making? Well, there's actually a pretty simple formula you can use to estimate the sales a food truck will make at per event. If you're considering this as serious business venture, you can also use this estimate when conducting the financial planning for your business. Ice cream is a popular product at fairs. The short answer, of course, is that each festival is different and will yield different sales numbers. Bigger events that attract more potential customers [...]
Top Three Online Communities Where You Can Learn to Cook BBQ
Trying to figure out how to cook not just good, but award-winning BBQ? You know the kind that gets people reminiscing about the time they ate your fall-off-the-bone ribs and have the potential to bring home a trophy at a competition? If you're looking to elevate your BBQ to the next level there are a variety of online communities where you can access the vast knowledge of pit masters from across the country and around the world. Nothing Beats BBQ. We recently interviewed one of our past customers, Wade Morris to share how he was able to start [...]
Catching Up With Rising BBQ Competitor Wade Morris of TREmendous Que
One of the things we love doing at M&R Specialty Trailers and Trucks is catching up with customers to see what they're up to and hear how their trailer, truck, or other vehicle is working for them. Today we have the opportunity to talk to Wade Morris who operates TREmendous Que in Tampa, Florida. In 2016, Wade purchased a customized NS 72 SWT trailer he calls the "Mistress" (read the full interview below for the story behind the name). Within just a few short years Wade has gone from grilling in his backyard with his setup from Home Depot to [...]
Custom-Built Competition BBQ Smoker Trailer with Sink in Florida [Video]
In today's video, we want to show you something that has become increasingly popular in recent months. More and more participants on the competitive BBQ circuit have begun approaching us to build their high-end trailers to help them cook competition quality que. At M&R Specialty Trailers and Trucks, we understand how important the details are on these builds in particular where having a smoker cooks meat with even a few degrees of inconsistency can be the difference between taking home the grand prize along with a trophy to going home with nothing more than left over ribs. We understand that [...]
Hollywood's Productions Adds More Mobile Units for Experiential Brand Marketing
See the Jägermeister Trailer at AT&T Stadium during Dallas Cowboys football games. For over 3 decades Hollywood's Productions has been working with the biggest names in music and sports entertainment to provide unforgettable mobile marketing experiences. Over the past 30+ years the company has worked with some of the biggest names in music from Jason Aldean to Brooks & Dunn. In sports they've helped create more exposure for brands like Coors and Jägermeister everywhere from NFL games to NASCAR races. At M&R Specialty Trailers and Trucks, we are proud to call Hollywood's Productions as valued customer and have worked with them [...]
A Peak at Dubai's Growing Food Truck Industry
Dubai, an enormous city with a population of over 2.7 million people in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is well known for its super-expensive real estate, growing economy where it's been reported 20% of the world's cranes are currently located, and of course the Burj Khalifa which is the tallest skyscraper building in the world coming in a 2,722 feet. In addition to all this growth and prosperity, you might be surprised to learn Dubai also has one of the fastest growing food truck scenes in the world. In today's post we take a look a five different food trucks and their menu concepts [...]
Will your favorite food cart soon be receiving a letter grade?
Inspection grades for restaurants in New York. If you live in states like California or New York, you're familiar with seeing a letter grade posted clearly outside of a restaurant. These letter grades are intended to give consumers confidence that they are eating at an establishment that maintains a clean and healthy kitchen. But are these ratings good for mobile food units as well? Within the state of California there are three letter grades that can be assigned to a restaurant by a health inspector two times per year: Rating A - This means the restaurant is safe to [...]
Is Gluten-Free the Next Winning Food Truck Concept?
Gluten Free is Becoming a More Popular Dietary Lifestyle. According to this report from HealthDay, the number of Americans eating a gluten-free diet has tripled over the last 5 years. This adds up to 2.7 million people that are estimated to consume the diet that cite overall health and digestive reasons for their choice. With so many people choosing this lifestyle should your food truck adapt to meet this growing demand? Or is this simply a flavor of the month diet that will be quickly forgotten in a few months? We explore this topic in greater detail within [...]
Survey Says 50% of All Food Truck Owners are Over 40 Years of Age
Built by M&R Specialty Trailers and Trucks. Recently SmallFoodBiz.com published survey results from 154 food truck entrepreneurs operating their businesses across the United States and Canada. Although the results of this sample are a small percentage of the likely 15,000 - 20,000 vendors that operate in the United States alone, the results of this survey match much of what we have observed anecdotally helping hundreds of mobile businesses get their start at M&R Specialty Trailers and Trucks. Although the results of this survey align with our observations, some of the results contradict what you may have read about [...]