Year End School Food Truck Catering Opportunities

If you are like most parents, this is the time of year that you are bombarded with emails from the schools your children attend. If these emails haven’t sparked an idea to help expand your food truck’s catering, we thought we’d help. Spring is when most schools are letting out for the summer. Planning for these events can be tough for busy school administrators. Make their job easier and help build your catering business with year end school food truck catering.

Year End School Food Truck Catering

Sports banquets, band banquets, teacher’s holiday parties and year end parties, are just some of the many school food truck catering opportunities that are available for vendors. Just remember that nearly all school related clubs and organizations have a banquet or will need catering services for an event they will hold.

Now is a perfect time to reach out to the school principals or the school board in your area. Offer to visit their school for lunch so they may try out your menu. If you want to put more skin in the game, offer a free lunch for their next teacher’s meeting. This little marketing event will get you a few minutes in front of all the club and sports team decision makers for that specific school or school district.

It may be too late to start booking events for this school year, but remember that next year a new batch of seniors will be arriving. This provides food truck vendors with great opportunities to connect with their parents for graduation party catering.

Catering opportunities with schools are a great niche available to every food truck owner. All you need to do is go out and sell your services.

The Bottom Line

As a food truck caterer, you can get more events by patiently and effectively building your brand. Then choose and seek opportunities to connect with customers within your market.

Have you gotten involved with school food truck catering for local school events? We’d love to hear any tips you may have for food truck owners looking to get into this segment of catering. Share your thoughts on this topic in the comment section, our food truck forum or social media. Twitter | Facebook

By Richard Myrick|2020-05-05T08:13:28-04:00May 5, 2020|Catering|

About the Author: Richard Myrick

Richard Myrick is an architect by degree (Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan) who began his career in real estate development and architectural planning. In September of 2010 he created Mobile Cuisine Magazine to fill an information void he found when he began researching how to start a mobile hotdog cart in Chicago. Richard found that there was no central repository of mobile street food information anywhere on the internet, and with that, the idea for MCM was born. Richard also wrote the "Running a Food Truck for Dummies" available in bookstores everywhere and Amazon. You can reach out to Richard by email at: [email protected].