It may be the turn of the year but the season for food trucks is still a couple months away, unless of course one lives in Texas or LA. Already though many are slowly getting ready for this wonderful time of year, expectations running high to delve into their local line-ups on good-meals-on-wheels, whether they’re an experience street-eater or a newbie just discovering the wonders of this food source just recently. There are new vehicles we have to hit while we can, missed older businesses to finally try and pin down, and of course dear favorites to go back to [...]

Here's a fun video we discovered for anyone with young kids. The food truck song performed in this YouTube video starts with children's voices saying "food truck!" loudly and with enthusiasm, a bass line gently thrumming to engage the listening viewer. A Queso Good food truck rolls out from a covered parking awning full of lots of food trucks, obviously heading out to the streets for a busy day vending and feeding the masses. It's a sunny day and the fun song gets you in the mood for the adventure of food trucks. Produced by Twentytrucks, copyright Hammershark Media LLC [...]

Food truck followers are more than customers:  they make or break the success of your food truck business. The contemporary food truck follower is more than just a customer, he is super plugged-in to the local scene as well as individual trucks. Followers are very connected, using social media adeptly and frequently to keep track of food truck scenes in their 'hood. Smartphone in hand, super fans take photos of trucks, food, lines, cooks, friends, and share them for better or worse. The casual eater will happen upon a food truck and take a chance, not knowing much about the [...]

This upbeat, sincere documentary short explores food trucks in Durham, North Carolina from food truck customers' and owners' points of view for 12:57. Made by students at The School of Doc, a free summer filmmaking camp open to high school students in Durham. The film opens with a customer expressing happiness with the casualness of food trucks. "It's fun to try something new." "There's no commitment before choosing and ordering," as there is in a restaurant. Casual, familiar and conversational are characteristics repeated and emphasized in this entertaining little movie. Only Burgers' food truck owner expresses his reason for opening [...]

Food Trucks and other activities have gone hand in hand ever since the trend started up. Truly the mobile businesses excel within symbiotic relationships; whether it’s doing a rally at a brewery or offering easy edibles during a music festival, the combo of ‘food truck + other thing’ has always proven beneficial to both parties when done right. Of course this idea has been noticed rather easily, building to lasting relationships and even grander events put together. Nowhere is this more seen than LA’s own Street Food Cinema. After a couple years ‘experimenting’ the idea, event producers and vending companies [...]

What do you do for your Make-A-Wish when you’ve beaten cancer? If you’re 13-year-old Lucas Hobbs, you step inside a food truck and prepare a free meal for the Minneapolis police. Lucas and the O’Cheeze food truck (think grilled cheese sandwiches) pulled up outside of City Hall, last July, roughly seven months after Lucas went through treatment for Stage 3 Hodgkin lymphoma, according to the Star Tribune. Lucas is now in remission. “Sometimes it’s not that thankful of a job,” the boy said, referring to the job of a police officer. But Lucas hasn’t stopped with police officers. Prior to [...]

The question of salary considerations for a food truck owner can easily be just as varied, finicky, and dependent as Concession Trailers, which we talked similarly about their many factors and end-of-day, or really year, profits here. Many an entrepreneur flocks to the food truck industry in hopes of making success, wanting to open up a food-service operation of their own while only able to gather enough money to go the mobile route instead of the heavily expensive restaurant business; or simply going off the low-overhead idea and equating it towards a higher chance at big salaries at the end of the year. [...]

Summer is winding down and the busy period for many food truck owners, especially in the northern states are doing the same. Fortunately, there's still plenty of mobile food news to keep tabs on in the month of August, 2015.  Enjoy this month's round up.  Beaumont Truck Boom – yet another city’s food truck scene is developing fast with loads of new mobile businesses! Po Boy Truck Destroyed in Fire – Odessa native Rich Chick’s Cajun Kicks sadly lost in disaster, currently finding help from local vendors Minneapolis Brings Food Trucks to the Sky – local airport is discussing the [...]