Gourmet Food Truck Catering Craze Feeding Returning Workforce A feverish catering craze has burst onto the post-pandemic food scene, as an unexpected solution has sped up to meet this surging demand. With a hungry workforce returning back to the grind, many have noticed some of their favorite eateries are unfortunately not coming back. Some businesses were also forced to restructure expense sheets, as many choose to permanently close cafeterias or in-building food vending options. So almost overnight, catering calls started pouring into a surprising source to fill this new void: Food Truck Cat ..read more

Lobster 207 In December of 2017, the newly formed company Lobster 207 reached out to us with a sales pitch. They wanted to provide top quality lobster to food trucks around the Country at a reasonable price with an incredibly easy ordering process. Lobster 207 was created by the newly formed lobster fishermen union in Maine. Their goal was to create a marketplace for lobster sales that came directly from the fishermen. For years they had dealt with lobster brokers and buyers that added to the price of the lobster. Their aim with Lobster 207 was to be the fishermen and the group that sold direc ..read more

The $25 food truck meal. Have you ever been at a festival with food trucks and wondered, “How on earth is my burger, fries and a drink over $20?” Answer: it is not the food truck. Event organizers are now charging up to 40% of a food truck’s gross sales to participate in their event. Participation fees for food trucks used to be 10%. Food trucks, like many restaurants, operate on very small margins. After a food truck owner pays for food, employees, food truck and commissary rent, propane, gas, insurance and incidentals they’re typically left with about 10-15% profit. Well attended events with ..read more

Food Truck Events Working with special events organizers can be one of the more profitable segments of your business. A special event, or a food truck event that is well organized and attended can make the difference between profitable month and just getting by.  However, an event that charges you a large fee and ends up being a dud can seriously impact your bottom line for the month.  So how do you protect yourselves from the bad organizers while focusing on the great ones?  We’ve put together a list of tips: Has the organizer worked in your area before?  1 ..read more

The food truck phenomenon that started in Los Angeles wasn’t just a flash in the pan. The food and restaurant industry is always evolving, and food trucks are an affordable point of entry into the industry. Independent operators can jumpstart their F&B venture and connect directly with their customers. What’s been amazing is the ability of top food trucks to rally and mobilize a fan base to follow the truck around the city instead of the truck chasing the crowd. But there comes a time when one food truck isn’t enough. If you’re turning down catering opportunities b ..read more

At 4PM EST on 27th February 2017, the newly-formed Food Truck Association of Georgia (FTAG) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to publicly announce their formation, at the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce on 11605 Haynes Bridge Road in Alpharetta, Georgia. The Food Truck Association of Georgia is the first food-truck-owner-operated association in Georgia and is already 35-members strong and growing.   FTAG Board Member Tony Harrison, owner of the Cousins Maine Lobster truck, has outlined five key priorities for the organization.  First, strengthening relationships with ..read more

JACKSONVILLE — The food truck explosion is a nationwide phenomenon, with numerous cities embracing market competition and providing their citizens with accessible, innovative, and award-winning cuisines at affordable prices, and nowhere is this more apparent in the state of Florida than in its most populous city, Jacksonville.  Roger Bull, in the Florida Times-Union, reports that the explosion of trucks in Jacksonville, now numbering over 100 and growing, and aided by the local food truck organization, Jax Truckies, has led to the creation of auxiliary businesses that help support th ..read more

How do I start a food truck? The Capital City Food Truck Convention is a two day mobile vending conference for food truck operators, suppliers and public health officials that will be held on March 12th and 13th of 2016. (For more info click here: http://www.dmvfta.org/convention/) .  The most asked question on the comment section of this site is, “How do I start a food truck?” The answer: “Educate yourself.” The Capital City Food Truck Convention curriculum covers everything that the aspiring mobile vendor needs as well as connecting suppliers with the new i ..read more

Celebrating Philadelphia’s Food Truck Mayor   Philadelphia’s food trucks are the quintessential American small business success story Philadelphia, PA 28th December 2015 Mayor-elect Jim Kenney has fans amongst Philadelphia’s strong and growing food truck movement, and that feeling is decidedly mutual.  “It’s the essence of small business creation,” stated Kenney in a 10 Feb 2015Philly.com piece.  From the appearance of the first gourmet food trucks in Philadelphia in mid-2010 to their explosion across Philadelphia’s epicurean landscape in 2013, Kenney, then as City Councilman-at ..read more

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