Mobile Cuisine Food Truck Movie Sneak Peek: Free Samples
What could be better than ice cream? How about free ice cream? Or how about an interview and an exclusive trailer from the indie film “Free Samples“? ”Free Samples” tells the story of Jillian (Jess Weixler) who, after dropping out of law school, spends one eventful day handing out some tasty teases for soft-serve ice cream. The More...
Wholesale Food Prices Could Affect Food Truck Bottomlines
A measure of U.S. wholesale prices rose last month by the most in five months, pushed higher by more expensive gas and pharmaceuticals. But outside those increases, inflation was mild. The producer price index grew More...
Ten Myths About Food Trucks
Opening a food truck isn’t like the movie Field of Dreams. The mobile food industry is just like any other fledgling industry — it has many success stories, but it also has many stories of failure. If More...
New Food Truck Trend: Airports
Forget Panda Express.The latest in airport dining is food that comes a truck. The Cheesesteak Truck can be found at Tampa International Airport once every week. (Christine Osborn) It was really just a matter of More...
Meatless Mondays: The Myth of Plant-Based Protein Deficiency
A recent study published in Global Environmental Change shows by cutting meat and dairy consumption by 25 percent, we could reduce two greenhouse gases by 80 percent. So if you’re thinking about moving to More...
How Green are Food Trucks?
When a discussion on food trucks comes up, the first words that will typically pop into your head might be anything from “delicious” to “roach coach” but to many they don’t tend to think about “ sustainability.” More...
The Farm to Food Truck Concept: What is it?
“Farm to truck” isn’t a new concept to the mobile food industry, but at the same time, it is a term that some food truck owners aren’t aware of. This is a concept of purchasing locally More...
The Exponential Growth of Food Trucks
The chart below shows the stunning growth in the number of Google hits for the search term “food trucks” over the last 4 years. I even had to cheat a bit on the chart to get the 83,000 hits in 2008-2009 More...
The Realities of Starting a Mobile Restaurant [INFOGRAPHIC]
We hope you like dining at food trucks, because it looks like they’re here to stay. According to data released in this information-packed infographic by Column Five Media, there was a nearly unanimous agreement More...
Room for Growth for Food Trucks in American Food Spending
In a recent Gallup poll, it was found that of those polled Americans report spending $151 on food per week on average. One in 10 Americans say they spend $300 or more per week and, at the other extreme, 8% spend More...
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