Today we’ll look at food truck Twitter tips you can use to drive more repeat customers and even some new ones, to your food truck. Twitter is a great way for food truck vendors to stay connected with your customers.

Unlike other social media platforms, it facilitates direct contact between individuals in your community. The key is in the planning and managing of your own and your businesses expectations. Doing this gives you a great chance of being successful on Twitter. Spend time where your customers are, not just where you want to.

Get New Customers With These Food Truck Twitter Tips

  • Get the chef involved. Food truck customers appreciate the opportunity to speak directly with the person making their food. Seeing the chef’s passion for their work can get potential diners excited about eating at your truck. What’s more, getting you or your chef on Twitter can provide a direct line of communication that may help prevent negative reviews on sites like Yelp.
  • Track your food truck’s mentions. Use a tool like HootSuite to track when people mention your food truck on Twitter. If it’s appropriate, you can engage in the conversation. If a customer takes a photo of your food, for example, you might want to retweet or reply. On the other hand, if a diner had a negative experience, responsiveness again might help convince that diner to visit your truck again.
  • Post specials often. New specials can be a big driver in getting repeat diners to your food truck’s service window. Posting those specials on Twitter makes sharing them easy, and it also allows you to get feedback and ideas on what dishes appeal most to your diners.
  • Respond to tweets. Twitter isn’t a one-way street. It’s important to be responsive to both praise and criticism. Of course, it’s important to be mindful of the reality that anything you post there is viewable publicly by anyone, but you can use that to your advantage. Encouraging positive feedback will bring you more — and handling complaints graciously will help potential diners sympathize with your side of the story.

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The Bottom Line

Managing multiple social media platforms is often difficult. However, you can make the process as painless as possible with these quick food truck Twitter tips to accelerate your food truck’s social media marketing efforts.

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