How to Create a Food Truck Business Workshop In Your Community
This is a special segment of the M&R Specialty Trailers and Trucks blog where we're speaking with Morgan Perry of the Mid-Continent Public Library System about how they've organized a 6-week food truck business course in Kansas City. In addition to providing insight about how the course was organized, Perry also shares tips on how other communities can structure similar course material in their area. Click the media player below to listen to the full interview. Key Quote Whatever you're doing in life it's all about asking someone. Talk it out with somebody. Every community has free resources for business [...]
Inside Look at Smoke on the Water BBQ Trailer
We’re back again with our own Bob Pierson of M&R Trailers as we look through yet another build for our BBQ-loving clientele. Of late, we recently outfitted a 28 foot Trailer job, including an 8 foot porch, for Chesapeake Bay’s (and now Florida’s) own Smoke on the Water. Owner’s Dan and Lexi have come together to bring a wealth of experience to their business, and have asked and expected a lot out of this project of ours! Some of the highlights of this trailer include: Full M&R BBQ Cooker, custom-built to fit entire porch section Full reach-in Refrigerator and [...]
Taking a Look at our Sno Cone Kiosk
Hey Folks, we’re here at M&R again, today we’ve got something that was a little newer and special to our build lineup about a year ago. We had a customer come in and ask us for a particularly interesting order, so we thought it’d be fun to feature. He wanted a machine with heavy wheels that he could move around through a mall or wherever, but was small enough that it could be used in any location. So we helped him draw things up and design it, and this is what we came up with. Features All Aluminum Cart using [...]
Lock ‘n’ Load East Bike Trailer – Chock and Storage System
We’re going to go through a new product we developed at M&R Trailers recently through Lock ‘n’ Load East. This is a chock and ratchet strap system made for tying down your motorcycle in a Trailer easily, being made purely on the basis of being able to load and lock in your bike quickly, safely, and without any fear of falling down. This offers a great way for anyone to transport their motor or other cycle in storage. Just take a look at all its amazing features. Features Fits all motorcycles Convenient one person loading Load even the heaviest motorcycle [...]
Inside Look at Bono's Bar-B-Q Express Food Truck
Welcome back to M&R Specialty Trailers and Trucks with Bob Pierson leading yet another walkthrough on one of our recent builds. We actually forgot to do one after initial completion, but they brought it back for maintenance recently so we took the chance and ran! We’ll be looking at Bono’s Bar-B-Q Express from Jacksonville, the first Truck built in this franchise’s lineup for Chance Gerisch. They got a full wrap on the entire vehicle, including window, we had a lot of fun doing this fully custom build on the 7.5 x 18 foot bbq truck project. Some of the highlights [...]
Inside Look at the Runway Grill Truck
We’re back at M&R Trailers with Bob, and he’s got a concession truck he wants to show us for today’s video upload! This one’s rather good sized, made for The Runway Grill a couple years back, with a 17 foot box on it, we were able to get a good solid kitchen in it while keeping plenty of room for moving around. This was originally a used truck with a Roll-up Door design; we eliminated all of the roll-up doors, rebuilt the walls, and set everything up for our customer’s needs. It made for quite a truck, big vehicle, a [...]
9 Florida Food Blogs Covering The States Rich Culinary Faire
Food Love has been caught in our population pretty strongly over the past decade or so; I don’t think its much of a stretch to think that we’ve really entered into a notably gastronomic era of our society after exiting the ages focused on Fast Food and TV Dinners. Whether Social Media has been a noted cause in its initial growth (I blame Food Network), it’s no argument that it’s HELPED to spread the news, cravings, and epic-ness in food culture that have been popping up so often. Nowadays people have taken this to storm, starting up Blog after Blog [...]
Interview with The Food Truck Bazaar Founder Mark Baratelli
Today's featured guest is Mark Baratelli founder of TheDailyCity.com and The Food Truck Bazaar, the world's first ever food truck tour that held over 150 events in 2014 across Central Florida. Baratelli was recently inducted into the Culinary Hall of Fame by the Orlando Sentinel and has also been referred to as "Orlando's Food Truck Baron" by the same publication. In this interview, Baratelli shares his tips for starting and running a successful food truck event in your area and shares just a few of his favorite places to eat loves to eat in the regional Orlando food truck scene, [...]
Top 10 Food Truck Wedding Photos of All Time!
Admittedly, we have no fool proof, scientific methodology for determining the best food truck weddings of all time. That being said, we think you'll agree each of the weddings featured in this post is pretty terrific and completely one of a kind. Just like each of the couples that embarked on the journey through marriage, each food truck is a little bit quirky, different, and reflects the personal flair of the individuals involved. In this post we celebrate life, love, and great food served from trucks. If there are any great weddings involving food trucks that we may have missed, [...]
How to Start a Food Truck in Austin, TX
As the Foodie capital of Texas (okay, it’s really the Live Music capital, but they really love food too), Austin is no stranger to the budding Food Truck scene. Considering the whole state’s renown for fellow city Dallas’ yearly fair, filled with gobs of acclaimed concession food, it’s not surprising the walkable food style has moved to the city streets. And Austin certainly started early, the trucks having started to roll in the early part of the century. Nowadays the city streets are thriving with masses of the vehicles; courts are held and developed everywhere, weekly and monthly rallies gathered [...]