Food Truck Menus
From menu design to culinary lessons as well as our recipe index, we’ve got the menu solution for your food truck.
Menu Design
Adding Pumpkin to Your Food Truck Menu
With Halloween and Thanksgiving right around the corner, we felt it would be a good time to include some tips on adding pumpkin to your food truck menu. It is easy to fall into a standard menu, serving [...]
Discover Local Flavors For Your Food Truck Menu
Over the years, I've written a lot about using local ingredients and products as a way food truck owners can separate themselves from the competition. Today I want to take that idea a step further [...]
Menu Specials Built Into Your Food Truck Menu Planning
Having menu specials on your food truck menu is a great idea for a lot of reasons. Not only does it give regular customers a reason to track down your truck but it gives you something [...]
Boosting Your Food Truck’s Menu Profitability
Many food truck menus have catchy descriptions, gorgeous photos and an attractive layout, but are missing a key ingredient: They aren’t driving profits. As the food truck industry grows, a lot of the wiggle room [...]
Providing Your Food Truck Customers With A Healthier Menu
Does your food truck need a healthy menu makeover? Have you leaning toward modifying your menu to help differentiate yourself from your competitors? Are your customers asking you to focusing on providing them with healthier [...]
Food Truck Menu Engineering Can Increase Your Profits Quickly
Menu engineering is the study of the profitability and popularity of menu items and how these two factors influence the placement of these items on a menu. The concept of menu engineering is not based on [...]
2018 NRA Show Unveils FABI Award Recipients
The National Restaurant Association returns this year on 19-22nd May at McCormick Place in Chicago. They are showcasing everything from technology, trending products, culinary inspiration, and industry education. This is all presented all under the [...]
How To Introduce New Items To Your Food Truck Menu
So, you or your team has identified a new product that might be a good fit on your food truck menu. Now you need to determine what are the best practices to successfully introduce new [...]
Don’t Let Trendy Ingredients Rule Your Food Truck Menu
You know what I and many other food truck diners don’t want to see any more? Salted Caramel. We will even toss in Sriracha for that matter. Don’t get me wrong, both of these are great [...]
Top 5 Protein Sources for a Vegetarian Food Truck Menu
Every week, across the country, more food trucks are joining the Meatless Monday project. Whether they have full on vegetarian menus, or trucks that serve meat but offer meatless options, more and more questions are [...]
Culinary Lessons
Look Professional In Your Food Truck Kitchen
I guess you could say being in culinary school has taught me a thing or two about how to look professional when walking into a kitchen. Every day, food truck owners strive to show how professional [...]
Cooking With Chocolate Isn’t Just For Dessert Food Trucks
Chocolate, the “food of the gods.” It has been a common ingredient when it comes to creating desserts. But, how often do you think about cooking with chocolate as part of a savory entree? When you [...]
Building Signature Compound Butter For Your Food Truck
A compound butter is butter that has been flavored by blending softened butter together with various ingredients they are also known as finishing butter, or beurre composé in French. These can be savory or sweet and can make for a [...]
Providing Vegan Desserts From Your Food Truck
We have recently received a number of emails from prospective food truck owners that are interested in starting up a food truck that caters to both vegetarians and vegans with their dessert menus. The problem [...]
10 Tips For Using Your Food Truck Grill On Meatless Monday
Everyday is the perfect time to serve delicious, sizzling meals straight off the grill of your food truck. Meatless grilling is an easy way to share seasonal flavors from your food truck menu. Plus, the occasional [...]
Adding Umami To Your Food Truck Menu
Umami rich foods are some of the most satisfying dishes you can serve from a food truck. Umami is the flavor of glutamate, an amino acid that is one of the essential building blocks of protein. [...]
Butchery Basics For Food Truck Owners
Mobile Cuisine is approached by many of the new food truck owners around the country via phone and email. We have found that many of these new mobile entrepreneurs do not have extensive backgrounds in [...]
Avoiding Common Vegetarian Cooking Mistakes
Once again it’s Monday and we are pleased to provide our readers with another article centered on the idea of providing your customers with at least one menu item for a follower of the Meatless [...]
Know What You Are Purchasing For Your Food Truck
As a food truck owner, are you purchasing naturally raised steak or grass fed meat, when you are purchasing fresh chicken, do you know what are you really getting? Know What You Are Purchasing For [...]
Basic Techniques For Building Flavor Into Your Food Truck Menu
One of the common denominators in the best food trucks is great food. The term great food may be vague, but ultimately, you know what it is when you taste it. Building flavor is what [...]
Recipe Index
Authentic Carne Asada Taco Recipe
The traditional taco truck has been cruising around California streets well for over 40 years. Most have menus with various styles of tacos, but in most cases, their best sellers have been their authentic carne asada [...]
Recipe: Homemade Fig Newtons
If you are like me, you spend time analyzing your favorite store bought foods and try to figure out how to make them yourself. Today I will share a recipe for for one of my [...]
Recipe: Ketchup
Forget about buying this American staple—homemade is so much better and an inspired way to use up those extra tomatoes. Ketchup Yield: 3 pints Ingredients 4 quarts (about 24) ripe tomatoes, peeled, cored, and chopped 1 [...]
Recipe: Gnocchi
With today being National Potato Day and last night's premier of season 4 of The Great Food Truck Race we thought this recipe for gnocchi from Tyler Florence would be a great match for sharing [...]
Recipe: Ginger Sweet Chicken and Broccoli Stir-Fry
Chef Rocco DiSpirito's healthy Now Eat This! Truck brings fresh food and nutrition education to kids in need.This makeover of the traditional Chinese chicken dish has all the tasty ginger flavor and a touch of sweetness, but [...]
Recipe: Brisket Tacos
Today is National Brisket Day, and thus we felt that an easy to go recipe using brisket would be appropriate for a mobile food vendor. Brisket Tacos Prep Time: 15 minutes | Cook Time: 4.5 hours | Yield: 6-8 tacos [...]
Recipe: Tequila Shrimp Tacos
Today is National Shrimp Day and to celebrate we are sharing a fantastic shrimp taco recipe from Taceaux Loceaux, a "Crazy Good", New Orleans food truck. Tequila Shrimp Tacos Prep Time: 10 minutes | Cook Time: 5 minutes | Yield: 4 tacos [...]
Recipe: Lamb Gyros
Although today is National Roasted Leg of Lamb Day, we felt that a lamb gyro recipe would be more appropriate for a mobile food vendor. That being said, Roasted Leg of Lamb would make for a tasty [...]
Recipe: Chicken Adobo Empanadas
Today is National Empanada Day and the Empanada Intifada, a guerilla gourmet food truck serving SlapYourThigh delicious, life-reaffirming, health-promoting, local, seasonal, damn-near-treasonously good empanadas from New Orleans has shared their recipe for Chicken Adobo Empanadas in honor of this occasion. Chicken [...]
Recipe: Eggplant Parmesan
Today is National Eat Italian Food Day and Papa Perrone of Jianetto's Pizza Truck out of New York City shared his recipe for Eggplant Parmesan in honor of this occasion. Eggplant Parmesan Prep Time: 10 minutes | Cook Time: 35 [...]