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5 On Friday: Zach Ware

This week’s 5 on Friday we spoke with the 18 year old owner of the Champaign, IL based food truck, The Crave Truck. Image from NFIB Entrepreneurship Video Contest 2012 Name: Zach Ware Age: 18 Food truck name: The Crave Truck Location: Champaign-Urbana[...]

By |Jun 29, 2012|Profiles|

Food trucks hitting the road with digital menu boards

Digital signage and digital menu boards are going mobile with food trucks. Food trucks, basically pop-up restaurants on wheels, are one of the hip dining trends spreading to cities across the country, with delivery trucks, wagons and even old school buses re-purposed as foodie havens.[...]

By |Jun 29, 2012|Technology|

Recover From Social Media Blunders

One of the key benefits that the mobile food industry has found in social media is that your messages can reach more people faster. Coming along with this advantage is that your mistakes can too. Whether you accidentally tweet an insensitive message or a customer[...]

By |Jun 29, 2012|Social Media|

Alaska Joins the Food Truck Industry with V’s Grinders

Juneau, AK - Venietia Mary Aurora Elizabeth Santana took the plunge. After nine years batting an idea around in her head and with her friends, Santana has opened the comfort-food sandwich shop she’s for years believed Juneau needed. Juneau has been Santana’s home for 15 years.[...]

By |Jun 29, 2012|Off the Wire|

Food trucks see success with frozen treats

During the summer and beyond, frozen treats such as gelato, frozen yogurt and customizable sundaes are trending on food truck menus, according to data compiled by research firm Datassential. According to a study by the firm that tracked menu trends on food trucks in 2011,[...]

By |Jun 28, 2012|Off the Wire|
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Hearing On San Diego Food Truck Study Postponed

SAN DIEGO, CA - A proposed ordinance that would require food trucks to display the same health inspection letter grades as restaurants had been scheduled to be presented to the San Diego County Board of Supervisor Wednesday, but wound up being postponed to July 11.[...]

By |Jun 28, 2012|Off the Wire|

Food Trucks to Dish Out Lunches NYC Public Library

New York City, NY - Call it the lunch exhibition that escaped into the park. That would be Bryant Park — and the exhibition, which opened Friday at the New York Public Library, is “Lunch Hour NYC,” a history of the midday meal in New York City. And now, on[...]

By |Jun 27, 2012|Off the Wire|

Chicago Food Trucks Could be Cooking by July

CHICAGO, IL - Chicago's food trucks may soon get to cook on board, but they'll face major parking restrictions, limitations on the number of trucks, steeper licensing fees and hefty fines for breaking the rules, according to one of two proposed ordinance drafts. The city's[...]

By |Jun 25, 2012|Off the Wire|