First time entrepreneurs and long-time business owners alike are waking up to the opportunity of transforming shipping containers into full blown commercial kitchens. As you'll soon see in the examples below any food business you could want to operate including traditional diners, coffee shops, and fast food establishments are all possible with these structures. In fact, some adventurous individuals have even gone as far a to convert these containers into a permanent home. Your imagination really is the limit when it comes to repurposing containers and we're confident your view of these seemly boring metal cubes will change by the [...]

Whether you prefer to eat Memphis or Kansas City style barbecue, you'll love the photos of these BBQ food truck builds in this post. This post includes food trucks from across the United States, including some of our past builds that we're proud to have custom manufactured on behalf of our customers. We hope you enjoy this list as much as we enjoyed curating it!   Another satisfied customer of the Smokin' Bull Shack. Built by M&R Specialty Trailers and Trucks. Photo Credit: Smokin' Bull Shack. No better sight as a mobile food vendor than seeing a nice long line [...]

If you live in Florida--like we do--you are fortunate to live on one of the states with the most food truck festivals in the country. Due to our (mostly) nice weather year round, we can attend outdoor events just about anytime we want. And Florida has some of the best festivals around. For example, did you know the world's largest food truck festival happens in The Sunshine State every year? Today, we will take you on a tour of some of the popular mobile food events happening across this great state on an annual basis. Whether your a foodie or [...]

Finding all the different food truck festivals that are popping up across the United States can be tough. More often than not these events are only promoted locally and can be hard to find online. But it doesn't need to be this way! As a result, we wanted to put together a resource that will help you find some of these mobile food festivals so you know where you can attend no matter where you live or travel in America. If you're a food truck owner looking for the next lucrative event coming to your area this can be an [...]

The long running television show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives started out by traveling across the United States featuring hole in the wall restaurants serving up, usually funky and always delicious foods. Since the start of the show back in 2006, the bleached-blonde Food Network Star, Guy Fiere, has been the host through 24 seasons of the franchise with no signs of stopping any time soon. As time has passed, not just restaurants, but food trucks have started to be featured in many episodes. This is a testament to food trucks truly becoming more mainstream and viewed as a destination for [...]

The owner of a "Food truck" poses on November 9, 2012 in Paris. AFP PHOTO BERTRAND GUAY (Photo credit should read BERTRAND GUAY/AFP/Getty Images) The popular NPR radio program and podcast Planet Money recently re-published their episode titled "How to Make it in the Food Truck Business" last week. This episode spotlights how a reported thousands of food trucks and cart owners compete for the stomach share of workers and tourists that walk the side-walks of New York City. Now the New York City mobile food market, or Manhattan more specifically, is probably unlike any other in the [...]