Talk about your favorite "Food Trucks" please

[Deberg_1990]

Seems to be the the latest craze hitting the cities.

Do you have food trucks in your area? What have you tried?

Recommendations? Good experiences? Bad ones?





http://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/...rillist-nation

[sedated]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

What ive always wondered was how they can afford to stay in business? Realistically, people mostly only eat at them for lunch. Who eats at a food truck for dinner?

I chatted with the owners of one and they said that they do a lot of corporate things - offices will schedule them for a day and typically buy everyone's lunch.

For dinner they go to bar districts to get walk-up traffic.

They'll use twitter/facebook to let everyone know where they will be that day. After having some tacos from "Crave KC", one of my co-workers checks constantly to see if they are back in the area.

Since the start-up and labor costs are so low compared to a restaurant, I'd imagine they aren't under as much pressure to sell as much food.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

Never eaten at one—let alone see one around. Just at a fair or something like that.

It must not be a northeast thing. Here in Texas it is a craze. Fort Worth has a food truck park that changes vendors every few days.

[BucEyedPea]

Originally Posted by loochy

It must not be a northeast thing. Here in Texas it is a craze. Fort Worth has a food truck park that changes vendors every few days.

Well, I am in the Southeast now—for awhile. Tho' I never saw 'em up there either.

I saw one at an outdoor trade show I did last Spring in Virgina and there were several. But it was regular food or ice-cream—nothing special or experimental. Like at a fair.That's about it. Oh! I've seen them on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives on FoodNetwork. They sound cool.

[Stewie]

Where I used to work we had a "gourmet" food truck show up every day for about three weeks. To buy an average lunch (sandwich, side, drink) was about $9. As I said, they lasted about three weeks.

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by loochy

It must not be a northeast thing. Here in Texas it is a craze. Fort Worth has a food truck park that changes vendors every few days.

Four years ago, there were -- count 'em -- zero food trucks in the Hub. Today, there are over 50, with new ones rolling out seemingly every month. In fact, Boston's mobile kitchen revolution has been so successful that a handful of early pioneers have already parlayed their success into legit brick-and-mortar restaurants.

http://www.thrillist.com/eat/boston/...rucksin-boston

There's also a site that lists locations for some of the trucks, in case any of you are heading that way in the future:

http://www.cityofboston.gov/foodtruc...edule-tabs.asp

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Having seen and worked with some of the characters who come to my shop asking for stainless steel for their food trucks, I'm going with..."none".

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by 505 Chief

Having seen and worked with some of the characters who come to my shop asking for stainless steel for their food trucks, I'm going with..."none".

I'm sure fast food workers are fastidious about their hygiene.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by Stewie

Where I used to work we had a "gourmet" food truck show up every day for about three weeks. To buy an average lunch (sandwich, side, drink) was about $9. As I said, they lasted about three weeks.

Yea, most of them are considered "gourmet" so with that comes a price.

They tend to cater to a more upscale/business crowd.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Yea, most of them are considered "gourmet" so with that comes a price.

They tend to cater to a more upscale/business crowd.

The best thing about our food truck scene is that it works as a business incubator for prospective restaurant owners. Four of our businesses started as trucks and now operate highly successful brick and mortar restaurants. It's quintessential lean startup.

Another interesting phenom has been the established restaurants who now buy trucks/trailers to allow them to cater more successfully.

We have a food truck court complete with those strange magnetic draft beer dispensers that fill from the bottom up here now. I confess... I haven't been as of yet.

[srvy]

I mentioned in another thread but for those in KC area and ever see the red Giovanni's Deli roach coach. Thats some pretty fine eats. It does come pretty penny too.

When I worked on a remote petroleum pipeline in Cali, Nevada and Oregon there was not enough towns, food or lodging so the set up man camps for the construction.

The guys that got the food contracts were companies that setup food for Hollywood movie shoots. They moved in with huge motor homes type deals with a whole kitchen setup. They worked cooked to order like short order. But there food was diverse. You could just tell them what you wanted and they could slap it together like nobodies business. My god the fresh fruit was incredible. Now we didn't think much of the man camp thing. You spend any amount of time in there you would become a useless alcoholic or drug addict and that's is no BS. One of my co-workers decided it was time to buy a trailer and I rented for small fee from him and got out there.

[Spokane Chief Fan]

They are having the NW Foodtruck Palooza on July 20 in Spokane Wa. $15 dollar general admission and all you can eat. They are only selling 1500 tickets I believe.